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Delphi Cookbook

By : Daniele Teti
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Delphi Cookbook

By: Daniele Teti

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Delphi Cookbook
Daniele Teti
Sep, 2014 | 328 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Delphi Cookbook
Delphi Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Delphi Basics
Delphi Basics
Introduction
Changing your application's look and feel with VCL styles and no code
Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime
Customizing TDBGrid
Using the owner's draw combos and listboxes
Creating a stack of embedded forms
Manipulating JSON
Manipulating and transforming XML documents
I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams
Putting your VCL application in the tray
Creating a Windows service
Associating a file extension with your application on Windows
2
Become a Delphi Language Ninja
Become a Delphi Language Ninja
Introduction
Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions
Writing enumerable types
RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime
Duck typing using RTTI
Creating helpers for your classes
Checking strings with regular expressions
3
Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey
Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey
Introduction
Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles
Creating a styled TListBox
Impressing your clients with animations
Using master/details with LiveBindings
Showing complex vector shapes using paths
Using FireMonkey in a VCL application
4
The Thousand Faces of Multithreading
The Thousand Faces of Multithreading
Introduction
Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor
Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue
Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent
Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope
5
Putting Delphi on the Server
Putting Delphi on the Server
Introduction
Web client JavaScript application with WebBroker on the server
Converting a console service application to a Windows service
Serializing a dataset to JSON and back
Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI
Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters
Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker
Controlling remote applications using UDP
Using App Tethering to create a companion app
Creating DataSnap Apache modules
6
Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey
Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey
Introduction
Taking a photo, applying effects, and sharing it
Using listview to show and search local data
Do not block the main thread!
Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list
Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data
Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously
Talking to the backend
Making a phone call from your app!
Tracking the application's life cycle
7
Using Specific Platform Features
Using Specific Platform Features
Introduction
Using Android SDK Java classes
Using iOS Objective-C SDK classes
Displaying PDF files in your app
Sending Android intents
Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine
Index
Index

Introduction

The FireMonkey FMX framework is the app development and runtime platform behind Delphi, C++Builder, and Appmethod. FireMonkey is the first native GPU-powered application platform. The IT world is becoming more multiplatform with each passing year. FireMonkey is a key technology for Embarcadero because it is designed to build multidevice, true native apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.

This chapter explains some of the great features of FireMonkey. What is exposed in these recipes will be useful on every platform supported by the framework. Some of the OS-related features may not be available everywhere, but the great part of the concepts are usable on MS Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. There are ready-to-use recipes that will be useful every day.

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