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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Fast user interface prototyping

Live bindings are not limited to string properties. You can bind different simple and complex data types. One of the really cool components that you can use to quickly design a data-driven user interface is TPrototypeBindSource. This component can emulate a data table and generate test data for display. In this way, we can very quickly prototype graphical user interfaces.

Let's look at how we could use live bindings to quickly prototype the user interface of our To-Do List app. Reopen the ToDoList project in the IDE, right-click on the Project Manager, and select the option to add a new project to the project group. Create a separate folder for the new project and save the main form's unit as uFormToDoTest, the project as ToDoTest, and the whole project group as ToDoGrp. Change the Name property, the main form of the new project, to FormToDoTest...

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