Change the color of a Delphi FireMonkey panel or make a FireMonkey panel transparent.
Use this FireMonkey panel trick to change the color of a Delphi FireMonkey panel or make a FireMonkey panel transparent
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I needed to create 500 panels on a form for a game that I was assisting another person with … and Delphi was choking. It was taking 20 seconds to do this. Not cool. We had to find a way to speed it up. This is what we did …
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I am doing a remote presentation this week on “Displaying and Animating 2D FireMonkey controls in 3D”. This will be at the Australia Delphi User Group’s meeting in Brisbane
I recently hit a problem where an object on a form was not visible in Delphi’s Live Bindings Designer. Ill show you how I fixed that
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Unlike VCL forms, Delphi FireMonkey forms do not have a PopupMenu property. So how can you show a popup menu when the user clicks the Right Mouse Button ?
You have to code it yourself and its pretty easy to do. The tricky bit is converting the X/Y position from the forms local co-ordinate system to global co-ordinates. Ill show you to do that.
Learn how to create the equivalent of an PostCreate / PostOnCreate event that executes just after the form’s OnCreate event has fired.
To do this, we will use an “Immediate Timer”
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Get and set the Z Order of controls at runtime in Delphi FireMonkey.
