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Expert Delphi - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Pages 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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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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Using custom styles

If we do not want to use a built-in style, we can always use a custom style. Delphi installation comes with a number of custom styles. In Delphi, FireMonkey custom styles are installed by default in the C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\NN.0\Styles directory (where NN is the internal product version number). FireMonkey styles are files with *.style extension. If we preview a FireMonkey style file with a text viewer, we will see that its content looks very much like a form file we design with Form Designer inside the IDE.

It is good practice not to put non-visual components such as a stylebook directly on the form but rather on a dedicated data module. To do this, select File | New | Data Module to add a new data module to the project.

Save the unit as uDMStyles. Change the Name property of the data module to DMStyles. Make sure that the data module is created before the application main form. You can do it in the Forms tab in the Options dialog...

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