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Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi Build applications using idiomatic, extensible, and concurrent design patterns in Delphi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343243
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Design Pattern Essentials FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to patterns 3. Section 2: Creational Patterns
4. Singleton, Dependency Injection, Lazy Initialization, and Object Pool 5. Factory Method, Abstract Factory, Prototype, and Builder 6. Section 3: Structural Patterns
7. Composite, Flyweight, Marker Interface, and Bridge 8. Adapter, Proxy, Decorator, and Facade 9. Section 4: Behavioral Patterns
10. Nullable Value, Template Method, Command, and State 11. Iterator, Visitor, Observer, and Memento 12. Section 5: Concurrency Patterns
13. Locking patterns 14. Thread pool, Messaging, Future and Pipeline 15. Section 6: Miscellaneous Patterns
16. Designing Delphi Programs 17. Other Kinds of Patterns 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Frames

Another concept that allows us to make parts of a user interface reusable are frames. A frame is similar to a form. It is implemented in a separate unit, can be visually edited in the IDE, and you can place controls and components on it. A frame, on the other hand, cannot be directly displayed on a screen. To use it, you must place it on a form, or on another frame, which is then placed on a form.

Frames function more like composite controls than full forms. You can even put a frame on the component palette and use it as a normal component later. Similarly to forms, frames can be added to the object repository and can be inherited from.

To create a new frame, select File| New| Other... Then, select the Delphi Files branch and find the VCL Frame icon. (The name of the icon will be FireMonkey Frame if you are designing a FireMonkey application.) Click OK and a new unit will...

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