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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

Using share sheets

Our app is already very spectacular, but it is not very useful. The photo is displayed in the form, but it goes away when we stop the app or take another photo. It is a typical functionality in operating systems to be able to share things with other installed apps. For example, we might want to share a photo on social media or send it by email. This can be easily achieved through share sheets that are also available through actions.

Drop another TSpeedButton on the toolbar. Rename it to spdbtnSharePhoto, change its StyleLookup property to actiontoolbutton, adjust its width and align it to the Right. Expand its Action property in the Object Inspector and, through the context menu, add the standard TShowShareSheetAction from the Media Library category.

TShowShareSheetAction in the context menu in Object Inspector

That's a faster way of adding actions. We...

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