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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
Book Image

Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By: David Cornelius

Overview of this book

Delphi is a strongly typed, event-driven programming language with a rich ecosystem of frameworks and support tools. It comes with an extensive set of web and database libraries for rapid application development on desktop, mobile, and internet-enabled devices. This book will help you keep up with the latest IDE features and provide a sound foundation of project management and recent language enhancements to take your productivity to the next level. You’ll discover how simple it is to support popular mobile device features such as sensors, cameras, and GPS. The book will help you feel comfortable working with FireMonkey and styles and incorporating 3D user interfaces in new ways. As you advance, you’ll be able to build cross-platform solutions that not only look native but also take advantage of a wide array of device capabilities. You’ll also learn how to use embedded databases, such as SQLite and InterBase ToGo, synchronizing them with your own custom backend servers or modules using the powerful RAD Server engine. The book concludes by sharing tips for testing and deploying your end-to-end application suite for a smooth user experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deliver modern enterprise applications using Delphi confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming Power
5
Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
11
Section 3: Mobile Power
15
Section 4: Server Power

Capturing your neighborhood

Delphi has made it very simple to take pictures regardless of which platform you're on. This capability is provided in one of the standard actions. Double-click on a TActionList and click on the little arrow to the right of the New Action list to drop down the menu of new action types, select New Standard Action... and scroll to the Media Library section, where you'll find TTakePhotoFromCameraAction. Click to add this new action to your action list, set its name to something appropriate, and leave all the properties at their default. The one thing you want to do with this is create an event handler for the OnDidFinishTaking event. In here, you'll add the code to do something with the image returned by the camera-taking action.

Before you hook up this new action to a button, remember that the camera can only be accessed if it's been granted permissions. What I like to do is create a custom action that will be linked to a button or menu...