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.
Get and set the Z Order of controls at runtime in Delphi VCL.
Introduction to color gradients in Delphi FireMonkey.
Implement multi-line captions in Delphi for TPanel, Tlabel and buttons (TButton, TSpeedButton, TBitBtn)
This is native Delphi code. You don’t need to hack the form’s text file
VCL and FireMonkey source code is included
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