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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

By : Primož Gabrijelčič
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Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide

By: Primož Gabrijelčič

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, iOS, and now Linux with RAD Studio 10.2. If you know how to use the features of Delphi, you can easily create scalable applications in no time. This Learning Path begins by explaining how to find performance bottlenecks and apply the correct algorithm to fix them. You'll brush up on tricks, techniques, and best practices to solve common design and architectural challenges. Then, you'll see how to leverage external libraries to write better-performing programs. You'll also learn about the eight most important patterns that'll enable you to develop and improve the interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. As you progress, you'll also delve into improving the performance of your code and mastering cross-platform RTL improvements. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to address common design problems and feel confident while building scalable projects. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Delphi High Performance by Primož Gabrijel?i? Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi by Primož Gabrijel?i?
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Template method

A template method (sometimes just called a template) is a design pattern that defines a template for an algorithm. Instead of coding a full, working solution, a template method implements just the important parts and leaves some details unfinished. It is up to the derived subclasses to implement the missing parts and through that, provide a working algorithm.

A recipe in a cookbook represents a template method. It may say something  like take three cups of flour (without specifying where exactly you should get this flour from), put into the oven (without specifying exactly which of your baking tins you should use and what specific mark of oven that should be), serve when cold (without providing any detail about serving plates and table setting), and so on.

As defined by the Gang of Four, the template method implements the important part of the algorithm...