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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

Customizing FireMonkey styles with the Style Designer

With a good handle on using the StyleBook component and an easy way to switch sets of styles, let's dig into the Style Designer to learn how to customize the look of a control.

As we continue through this chapter, we'll reuse the same project because it already contains several controls that make it nice to see the effects of the style changes we'll be making. To "reset" the styles to their built-in defaults, you can simply delete the StyleBook components from the form. I will do that as well, but also copy the project to preserve the state of the previous demo. This section's source can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Fearless-Cross-Platform-Development-with-Delphi/tree/master/Chapter07/07_02_CustomStyleControls.

If you right-click on a control, you will see two menu options for editing styles; here's what they do:

  • Edit Custom Style...: This creates and/or...