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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

TMonitor is a record used to synchronize threads. Just to be clear, we are talking about System.TMonitor, not Vcl.Forms.TMonitor.

Since Delphi 2009, the TObject instance size has been doubled to make room for an additional 4 bytes. What are these 4 bytes for? They provide TMonitor support!

Now, every TObject descendant can be used as a lock. The type that allows this is the System.TMonitor record, which implements a generic monitor synchronization structure.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you'll face one of the classic multithreading problems—concurrent access to a shared file. Specifically, you'll have a lot of threads writing some information on a file—the...