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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)

Customizing the TListView

As already said in the Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data recipe, the TListView is the best control for handling long lists of data. We already know how to change the default style using the UpdateObjects event. However, this approach lacks the Delphi RADness approach; no visual preview, no object inspector, no Visual LiveBindings, no live data. In this recipe we'll look at how to create a TListView style which can be installed in the Delphi IDE and used at design time in the object inspector and in the Visual LiveBindings designer.

Getting ready

TListView uses the Appearance Class to define how it looks at runtime. An Appearance Class is nothing more than a class derived...