Using a styled TListView to handle long lists of data

The TListBox control is very flexible. You can customize every aspect of each item in the list. However, it is not suitable if you want to handle a long list of data, because flexibility comes at the cost of system being slow when the number of data rows grows. Embarcadero specifies that you should use TListView to display a collection of items in a list that is optimized for LiveBindings and for fast and smooth scrolling.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the Do not block main thread! recipe as a base to customize a listview using custom styles. In that recipe, we got a list of weather forecasts from a REST web service and then filled the listview with that data using a standard style. In this recipe, that data will be nicely inserted in to a custom listview with colors, alignment, and a summary footer. There is no design-time support with this approach, because all the controls created in each item are created at runtime; however...