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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

Exploring UpdateOptions properties

The UpdateOptions property has the following sub-properties:

  • LockMode, LockWait, and LockPoint: If you are building an application (or part of it) where concurrency happens, you may want to specify the lock strategy and some parameters to fine-tune it. For example, if the underlying database supports the SELECT FOR UPDATE (or the like) statement (for example, in Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, and many more), you can set LockMode to the lmPessimistic value in order to obtain FireDAC to lock a record before editing it. Furthermore, you can specify (through the LockPoint property's value) whether the lock should be acquired at the moment the dataset starts editing the record (that is, when the State property of the dataset goes from dsBrowse to dsEdit) or when the changes are posted (that is, when the TDataSet.Post method gets called). But there's more: if the lock strategy is pessimistic and the record is already locked...