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Expert Delphi - Second Edition

You're reading from  Expert Delphi - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Pages 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marco Cantù Marco Cantù
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Blocks
2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts 3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language 4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox 5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library 6. Part 2: Going Mobile
7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey 8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D 9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style 10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems 11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges 12. Part 3: From Data to Services
13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases 14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services 15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends 16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server 17. Chapter 14: App Deployment 18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 19. Index
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Working with images

The key assets in our game are the images to be used on the back of every tile. There will be at least as many images as the number of pairs at the highest difficulty level, plus two additional images. The first image in the list will be completely white and will be used for tiles that have been removed. The second special image will be used as a cover for every hidden tile. Before every new game is started, we are going to randomly assign image pairs to tiles. This will ensure that the game is different every time the user plays it.

FireMonkey comes with the TImageList component, which has been designed to efficiently manage all images that are used across the whole app. It is good practice to put images and all other global game assets on the dedicated data module. In this way, we can easily access them from all app forms, or even reuse them across different projects.

Add a new data module to the game project. Save the file as uDMGameOfMem and change its...

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