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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

Using a styled TListView to handle a long list of data

The TListBox control is very flexible. You can customize every aspect of each item in the list. However, it is not suitable if you want to handle a long list of data because flexibility comes at the cost of the system being slow when the number of data rows grow. Embarcadero specifies that you should use TListView to display a collection of items in a list that is optimized for LiveBindings and for fast and smooth scrolling.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the Do not block main thread! recipe as a base to customize a list view using custom styles. In that recipe, we get a list of weather forecasts from a REST web service and then fill in the list view with that...

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