Delphi Cookbook电子书

Delphi Cookbook

Table of Contents

Delphi Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Delphi Basics

Introduction

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

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more...

Changing the style of your VCL application at runtime

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Customizing TDBGrid

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Using the owner's draw combos and listboxes

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Creating a stack of embedded forms

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Manipulating JSON

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

Manipulating and transforming XML documents

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

I/O in the twenty-first century – knowing streams

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

Putting your VCL application in the tray

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Creating a Windows service

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

Using the TService.LogMessage method

Associating a file extension with your application on Windows

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

2. Become a Delphi Language Ninja

Introduction

Fun with anonymous methods – using higher-order functions

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Writing enumerable types

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

See also

RTTI to the rescue – configuring your class at runtime

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

See also

Duck typing using RTTI

Getting started

How to do it...

There's more…

Creating helpers for your classes

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

See also

Checking strings with regular expressions

Getting started

How to do it...

There's more...

3. Going Cross Platform with FireMonkey

Introduction

Giving a new appearance to the standard FireMonkey controls using styles

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Creating a styled TListBox

Getting started

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Impressing your clients with animations

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Using master/details with LiveBindings

Getting started

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Showing complex vector shapes using paths

Getting started

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more...

Using FireMonkey in a VCL application

Getting started

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more…

4. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading

Introduction

Synchronizing shared resources with TMonitor

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Talking with the main thread using a thread-safe queue

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more

Synchronizing multiple threads using TEvent

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

Displaying a measure on a 2D graph like an oscilloscope

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

5. Putting Delphi on the Server

Introduction

Web client JavaScript application with WebBroker on the server

Getting ready

How to do it...

Retrieving the people list

Creating or updating a person

Deleting a person

Running the application

There's more…

Converting a console service application to a Windows service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Serializing a dataset to JSON and back

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Controlling remote applications using UDP

UDP

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using App Tethering to create a companion app

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Creating DataSnap Apache modules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

6. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey

Introduction

Taking a photo, applying effects, and sharing it

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more…

Using listview to show and search local data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Do not block the main thread!

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using SQLite databases to handle a to-do list

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

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

Getting ready

How to do it...

The client side

The server side

There's more...

Talking to the backend

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Making a phone call from your app!

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Tracking the application's life cycle

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

7. Using Specific Platform Features

Introduction

Using Android SDK Java classes

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Using iOS Objective-C SDK classes

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Displaying PDF files in your app

Getting ready

How to do it...

Showing the PDF file on Android

Showing the PDF file on iOS

There's more...

Using Google Docs Viewer

Downloading the PDF file from the server

Sending Android intents

Getting ready

How to do it...

More complex intents – sending a full flagged e-mail

Starting an activity for results – the SpeechToText engine

There's more...

Letting your phone talk – using the Android TextToSpeech engine

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Index