hand book on Delphi Pascal and VCL

[Freeeee 0]

Does anyone know of a delphi pascal handbook 

that would explain ALL of the objects you can put on a form.

I'm looking for something along the lines of ;

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This is a form;  here are the features you can change,

Here is how to change them, This is why you might want to change them

the go onto All of the VCL objects you can put on form

 

This is an Edit box

Here are all of he features about it that you can taylor.

Hear is what each one of them do.

Here are the reserved word you use to modify the behavior 

Here are 3 examples oh how you might us an Edit box.

This is a Label. There are several types 

These are the features you can modify.

Here's How to modify then.

This is why you might want to modify them.

Here are three non-trivail examples of how you use them.

as you went along you could report "This is the same feature as on a Memo box., pg 54.

 

It should of course, be indexed Too   The book Dephi Programming  for beginners by Yuriy Kalmykov   was good but it only touched on a few things

 

And no, the docs on the embarkadaro web site are not adequate UNLESS you already KNOW all of the above.

 

I

m kind of surprised that someone hasn't already written some thing like this.

Even the Intel docs on programming in assmebler show each op code and what it does. and how the registers work together.  SI,  DI  and Cx dome to mind.

 

 

[FPiette 393]

Have a look there: https://delphi-books.com/en/

[Patrick PREMARTIN 150]

Hello.

 

There are far too many components to cover them all. Once you understand the basic components and the difference between visual and non-visual, it's up to us to go through the examples provided and learn everything. Everything that can be found in Windows software is present in the VCL.

 

In books you have these two to read :

https://delphi-books.com/en/Getting-started-with-RAD-Studio.html

https://delphi-books.com/en/Object-Pascal-Handbook-Delphi-11-Alexandria-Edition.html

 

They explain the basics and the language features. As I know no book is oriented on VCL components learning but they all contains a lot of projects samples.

 

In the official documentation website you have the units content but also tutorials like

 

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/CodeExamples/en/Main_Page

 

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Getting_Started_with_RAD_Studio

 

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Windows_Developer's_Guide_Index