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Marco Cantù
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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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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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Marco Cantù

Marco Cantù is an experienced Delphi expert, who started working with the product since its introduction in 1995. He is currently working as a Product Manager for RAD Studio at Embarcadero Technologies, an Idera company. Prior to that, Marco was a Delphi trainer and consultant for Wintech Italia. Over the years, Marco has written 20 books on Delphi, from the classic Mastering Delphi series to the recent Object Pascal Handbook. Marco has been a speaker at many Delphi and programming conferences worldwide, including over 10 Borland US Conferences, the Software Development Conference, Borland European conferences, EKON (Germany), DCon (UK), Conference to the Max (Holland), DelphiTage, the Italian Delphi Day, and a few editions of Delphi Developer Days. Marco is based in Italy.
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Paweł Głowacki

Paweł Głowacki was Embarcadero's European Technical Lead for Developer Tools. Previously, Paweł spent over 7 years working as a senior consultant and trainer for Delphi within Borland Education Services and CodeGear. Apart from working with Embarcadero customers across the region, he represented Embarcadero internationally as a conference and seminar speaker. Paweł passed away in mid-December 2017, but he is alive in the hearts of the Delphi developers community, worldwide.
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