Setting DynamicAppearance value for ItemAppearance provides you with a similar experience to the Custom one, but you can determine the collection of drawables implementing the appearance. This means that you may add three or four text items, a number of images, and one or more accessory items implementing a very tailored representation of your data.
The following screenshot shows a portion of the Delphi IDE while editing the dynamic appearance used in the previous example:
As you can see, the (regular) Item node of the appearance is selected in the Structure view and its properties are shown in the Object Inspector window. In Form Designer (the upper-right portion of the preceding screenshot), you can see the list view with Design mode enabled and, in LiveBindings Designer, you can have a representation of how the data is provided to the list view.
The preceding screenshot contains some meaningful peculiarities:
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