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Delphi Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788621304
Length 668 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Daniele Spinetti Daniele Spinetti
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

One of the biggest advantages of FireMonkey compared to VCL is its vector-based nature. Various visual parts can be created in FireMonkey using vector-based graphics (even if in some cases, using a bitmapped approach can be faster). In terms of vectorial graphics, there is a nice language called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) that allows you to define primitive shapes using a set of coordinates and not a raster image. This means that you can stretch the image without losing its resolution because the image is not actually stretched; it's completely redrawn using the new coordinates. That's it; the SVG file is made up of coordinates and mathematical formulae to join them.

Inside the SVG language, there is an element called SVG path. The path element is used to define a path. So, what's a path?

A path is a sequence of instructions...

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