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Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi

By : Primož Gabrijelčič
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi

By: Primož Gabrijelčič

Overview of this book

Design patterns have proven to be the go-to solution for many common programming scenarios. This book focuses on design patterns applied to the Delphi language. The book will provide you with insights into the language and its capabilities of a runtime library. You'll start by exploring a variety of design patterns and understanding them through real-world examples. This will entail a short explanation of the concept of design patterns and the original set of the 'Gang of Four' patterns, which will help you in structuring your designs efficiently. Next, you'll cover the most important 'anti-patterns' (essentially bad software development practices) to aid you in steering clear of problems during programming. You'll then learn about the eight most important patterns for each creational, structural, and behavioral type. After this, you'll be introduced to the concept of 'concurrency' patterns, which are design patterns specifically related to multithreading and parallel computation. These will enable you to develop and improve an interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. Toward the concluding chapters, you'll explore design patterns specific to program design and other categories of patterns that do not fall under the 'design' umbrella. By the end of this book, you'll be able to address common design problems encountered while developing applications and feel confident while building scalable projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Actions


In the previous section, we saw how to write event handlers for user interface components. This works great in small applications, but for larger projects, such hardwired connections between the UI and code leads to a pretty big mess. A solution is to separate the user interface from the actual code and connect them with a command pattern.

Note

Chapter 6,  Nullable Object, Template Method, Command, and State, discusses the command pattern in more detail.

As you are programming with Delphi, you're in luck. There's no need to write the complicated infrastructure that's required for the implementation of a command pattern as Delphi already implements this pattern in the form of actions.

In Chapter 6, Nullable Object, Template Method, Command, and State, I wrote about four important parts of any command pattern:

"A command is an action, wrapped inside an object. It is created by the client object, for example, as a response to the user input. When a command is executed, it operates on a target...