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Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey

By : Andrea Magni
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Book Image

Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey

4 (1)
By: Andrea Magni

Overview of this book

FireMonkey (FMX) is a cross-platform application framework that allows developers to create exciting user interfaces and deliver applications on multiple operating systems (OS). This book will help you learn visual programming with Delphi and FMX. Starting with an overview of the FMX framework, including a general discussion of the underlying philosophy and approach, you’ll then move on to the fundamentals and architectural details of FMX. You’ll also cover a significant comparison between Delphi and the Visual Component Library (VCL). Next, you’ll focus on the main FMX components, data access/data binding, and style concepts, in addition to understanding how to deliver visually responsive UIs. To address modern application development, the book takes you through topics such as animations and effects, and provides you with a general introduction to parallel programming, specifically targeting UI-related aspects, including application responsiveness. Later, you’ll explore the most important cross-platform services in the FMX framework, which are essential for delivering your application on multiple platforms while retaining the single codebase approach. Finally, you’ll learn about FMX’s built-in 3D functionalities. By the end of this book, you’ll be familiar with the FMX framework and be able to build effective cross-platform apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Delphi GUI Programming Frameworks
4
Section 2: The FMX Framework in Depth
13
Section 3: Pushing to The Top: Advanced Topics

TListView's style customization

As I wrote at the very outset of this TListView overview, this is a TStyledControl descendant, meaning its visual representation is implemented through a style object.

This also means you can customize this Style object and change some visual aspect of the component to meet your needs. A detailed overview of FMX styles is provided in Chapter 7, Understanding FMX Style Concept, but for convenience, I want to address a simple customization for TListView. As you have seen, a text button drawable is available for use in the item's appearance. Even if you can't think of it as an actual TButton instance (because it is not), it is style-enabled and its definition is part of the TListView style object.

Select your TListView instance in Form Designer, right-click on it, and select Edit Custom Style... from the pop-up menu. Style Designer will be shown and a copy of the default style for the TListView ...