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You're reading from Delphi Cookbook Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788621304

Length 668 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Delphi

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Daniele Teti

Daniele Spinetti

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja

3. Knowing Your Friends – The Delphi RTL

4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey

5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

6. Putting Delphi on the Server

7. Linux Development

8. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

9. Using specific platform features

10. Delphi and IoT

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Creating a styled TListBox

As you saw in the previous recipe, it is possible to style styled controls and completely change their appearance. While in the VCL, the TListBox control is a mere wrapper over the corresponding control in the MS Windows API; in FireMonkey, the TListBox component is a completely different beast. A TListBox component contains a list of TListBoxItem, and a TListBox item is a TStyledControl descendant. This means that every single item in a TListBox component can be styled! This feature opens a huge set of new possibilities regarding the use of this control.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you'll see a set of styled TListBoxItem components that, when added to TListBox, change their appearance completely...

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Authors (2)

Spinetti

Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD.

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Daniele Teti

Daniele Teti is a software architect, trainer, and consultant with over 20 years of experience. He drives the development of the most popular Delphi open source project on GitHubDelphiMVCFramework. He's also a huge fan of design patterns, machine learning, and AI. Daniele is the CEO of BIT Time Professionals, an Italian company specializing in high-level consultancy, training, development, and machine learning systems.

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