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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

Mixing 3D and 2D

In FireMonkey, you can mix 2D with 3D. In a 3D form we can use 2-dimensional user interface controls, or we can embed the special TViewport3D component in a standard FireMonkey 2D form to do some 3D rendering.

In this example, we are going to add some special visual effects by building a 2D user interface in 3D space. This will allow the user to interact with the app in a traditional way, but we could do some extra things like rotating or moving the whole user interface in 3D space for a surprising user experience.

Create a new multi-device Delphi project and select Blank Application as the application type. Save the main form's unit as uFormTwistMe and the whole app as TwistMe. Change the Name property of the form to FormTwistMe. Drop the TViewport3D component on the form and align it to Client.

On the Tool Palette, we can find the 3D Layers category with...

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