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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

Modifying MyParks for use with RAD Server

I've copied the MyParks project, including the main form and the data module, from Chapter 10, Cameras, the GPS, and More, and will make the modifications starting with that finished, working version. (The modifications we made to this app in Chapter 12, Console-Based Server Apps and Services, and Chapter 13, Web Modules for IIS and Apache, were for specific server purposes, and we'd have to remove several parts to rework it for use with RAD Server, so we might as well start without them.)

Setting up RAD Server connection components

Before we connect to RAD Server, let's set up a new list view to hold the results.

Open the main form of the MyParks app and add the following:

  1. Add a TTabControl behind TListView that holds the main list of parks on the tabParkList tab.
  2. Add two tabs on this new tab control—tabLocalParks and tabRemoteParks.
  3. Move the current list view of the locally stored parks onto...