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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

Creating magic with the LiveBindings Wizard

Now that you're getting the feel for connecting properties and how LiveBindings work in the designer, the actions of the LiveBindings Wizard will make more sense as it combines several actions you performed manually in the designer. Plus, you're probably now seeing how the data-aware controls in Windows VCL will be replaced by this framework.

Tip

There's a quicker way to get to the LiveBindings Wizard than clicking the button in the designer, but you have to enable it. Select Tools | Options from the main Delphi menu, expand IDE, and then click on LiveBindings. From here, enable the checkbox for displaying the wizard in the context menu. Once you've done this, when you're in the form designer of a project, you can go straight to the LiveBindings Wizard with a right-click and select it from the pop-up context menu.

For this section, we will start with a blank multi-device application. Now, without placing...