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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788621304
Length 668 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Daniele Spinetti Daniele Spinetti
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja 3. Knowing Your Friends – The Delphi RTL 4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey 5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading 6. Putting Delphi on the Server 7. Linux Development 8. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 9. Using specific platform features 10. Delphi and IoT 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a styled TListBox

As you saw in the previous recipe, it is possible to style styled controls and completely change their appearance. While in the VCL, the TListBox control is a mere wrapper over the corresponding control in the MS Windows API; in FireMonkey, the TListBox component is a completely different beast. A TListBox component contains a list of TListBoxItem, and a TListBox item is a TStyledControl descendant. This means that every single item in a TListBox component can be styled! This feature opens a huge set of new possibilities regarding the use of this control.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you'll see a set of styled TListBoxItem components that, when added to TListBox, change their appearance completely...

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