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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 custom styles

If we do not want to use a built-in style, we can always use a custom style. The Delphi installation comes with a number of custom styles. In Delphi 10.2 on Windows 10, FireMonkey custom styles are installed into the C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\Styles directory. FireMonkey styles are files with the *.style extension. If we preview a FireMonkey style file with a text viewer, we will see that its content looks very much like a form file that we design with Form Designer inside the IDE.

It is good practice not to put non-visual components such as stylebooks directly on the form, but on a dedicated data module instead. Select File | New | Other from the main menu. In the New Items dialogs, select the Delphi Files category and choose to add a new Data Module to the project:

New Data Module in New Items dialog

Save the unit as uDMStyles. Change...

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