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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook 50 hands-on recipes to master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783559589
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Become a Delphi Language Ninja 3. Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey 4. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading 5. Putting Delphi on the Server 6. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 7. Using Specific Platform Features Index

Duck typing using RTTI

 

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

 
 --James Whitcomb Riley

Clear, isn't it? What may not be so clear is that this approach can be used also in computer programming. Yes, even without an actual duck!

Getting started

Referring to Duck typing, Wikipedia gives the following explanation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing):

In computer programming with object-oriented programming languages, duck typing is a style of typing in which an object's methods and properties determine the valid semantics, rather than its inheritance from a particular class or implementation of an explicit interface.

How can all these concepts be used in everyday programming? This is the question that this recipe aims to answer.

Let's say that you have a form and you want to inform the user that something bad happened, changing all the colorable components to clRed. I don&apos...

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