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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)
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Section 1: Delphi GUI Programming Frameworks
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Section 2: The FMX Framework in Depth
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Section 3: Pushing to The Top: Advanced Topics

Exploring the LocalSQL feature

The last powerful feature I want to address in this chapter dedicated to FireDAC is the LocalSQL functionality.

Ever wanted to load some data in a dataset (let's say you are parsing some data from a file and storing it in a memory table) and perform a SQL join statement across that standalone dataset and some data in your real database? Or, in a more modern scenario, ever wanted to collect some data from sensors and find a match against some data in your database or in some other available dataset?

In other words, some time ago, there was a neat distinction between the SQL world and other data-oriented manipulation techniques. SQL is great for set-oriented operations, joins, Cartesian products, aggregates, filtering, and similar while other data-manipulation approaches were usually heavily based on code implementations of loops, lists, and temporary data structures to collect data. Now you can easily mix the two worlds!

LocalSQL is functionality built...