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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

You're reading from   Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi Expand your Delphi skills to build a new generation of Windows, web, mobile, and IoT applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203822
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Programming Power
2. Chapter 1: Recent IDE Enhancements FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Delphi Project Management 4. Chapter 3: A Modern-Day Language 5. Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
6. Chapter 4: Multiple Platforms, One Code Base 7. Chapter 5: Libraries, Packages, and Components 8. Chapter 6: All About LiveBindings 9. Chapter 7: FireMonkey Styles 10. Chapter 8: Exploring the World of 3D 11. Section 3: Mobile Power
12. Chapter 9: Mobile Data Storage 13. Chapter 10: Cameras, the GPS, and More 14. Chapter 11: Extending Delphi with Bluetooth, IoT, and Raspberry Pi 15. Section 4: Server Power
16. Chapter 12: Console-Based Server Apps and Services 17. Chapter 13: Web Modules for IIS and Apache 18. Chapter 14: Using the RAD Server 19. Chapter 15: Deploying an Application Suite 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Coding your own LiveBindings methods

For this last section on LiveBindings, we'll continue with the prior project, but I've copied it again to a new folder so that if you haven't compiled the package introduced in this section yet, you'll still be able to run the sample in the previous section.

What I'd like to do here is show the number of years' experience each of the contacts in this app has. Since the Hire Date field is a date and the date type is a double, all I will need is a way to get the current date; then, I can subtract the two and divide it by 365 to get the number of years difference. Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. However, with a little knowledge of how these methods are created, it's not too difficult to create one ourselves.

LiveBindings methods are Delphi packages that are installed on the IDE to give us various design-time functionality and syntax checking functionalities; the units also need...

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