Delphi Cookbook（Second Edition）

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Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Delphi Basics

Introduction

Changing your application look and feel with VCL styles and no code

Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

Customizing TDBGrid

Using owner draw combos and listboxes

Making an owner draw control aware of the VCL styles

Creating a stack of embedded forms

Manipulating JSON

Manipulating and transforming XML documents

I/O in the 21st century – knowing the streams

Creating a Windows service

Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

Be coherent with the Windows look and feel using TTaskDialog

Chapter 2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja

Introduction

Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions

Writing enumerable types

RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime

Duck typing using RTTI

Creating helpers for your classes

Chapter 3. Knowing Your Friends – the Delphi RTL

Introduction

Check strings with regular expressions

Consuming RESTful services using native HTTP(S) client libraries

Cope with the encoded Internet world using System.NetEncodings

Save space using System.Zip

Decouple your code using a cross-platform publish/subscribe mechanism

Chapter 4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey

Introduction

Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles

Creating a styled TListBox

Impressing your clients with animations

Using master/details with LiveBindings

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

Using FireMonkey in a VCL application

Reinventing your GUI also known as mastering Firemonkey controls shapes and effects

Chapter 5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

Introduction

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue

Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent

Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope

Using tasks to make your customer happier

Monitoring things using futures

Parallelize using the parallel for

Chapter 6. Putting Delphi on the Server

Introduction

Developing web client JavaScript applications with WebBroker on the server

Converting a console application to a Windows service

Serializing a dataset to JSON and back

Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI

Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker

Controlling remote application using UDP

Using app tethering to create a companion app

Creating DataSnap Apache modules

Creating WebBroker Apache modules

Using native HTTP(S) client libraries

Chapter 7. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Introduction

Taking a photo applying effects and sharing it

Using TListView to show and search local data

Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list

Do not block the main thread!

Using a styled TListView to handle long lists of data

Customizing the TListView

Taking a photo and location and sending it to a server continuously

Talking with the backend

Making a phone call from your app!

Tracking the application's lifecycle

Chapter 8. Using Specific Platform Features

Introduction

Using Android SDK Java classes

Using iOS Objective C SDK classes

Displaying PDF files in your app

Sending Android Intents

Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine

Using Java classes in Android apps with Java2OP

Doing it in the background the right way – Android services