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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

Working with inherited views

When we design the form, it is the same for all platforms, form factors, and orientations. We can preview how the form is going to look on different platforms, but the design is the same. FireMonkey Form Designer lets us define inherited views that are specific to a given platform and the form factor. Next to the Style combo box at the top of the Form Designer there is another combo box, View. Here we can add to our form additional form files that are specific to a given platform and a form factor.

Every form always has a built-in Master view. From the list we can add additional views.

Available inherited views in the FireMonkey Form Designer

Let's add the iPhone 4" and Android 7" Tablet views to the FormContact design. The selected choices will now be listed in the Created category:

Available inherited and created views in the FireMonkey...
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