FMX in VCL app - working natively ?

[david_navigator 12]

I just accidentally instantiated an FMX form in my VCL app and no errors were thrown (nor warnings at compile time).
 

It just seems to work. Is this a fluke or does delphi natively now support VCL & FMX forms in the same app ? 

[Remy Lebeau 1429]

Mixing of VCL and FMX together in the same project is NOT officially supported.  There are 3rd party solutions to make it work, but out of the box this is a fluke if it actually works.

[miab 25]

As far as I know you could always mix VCL with FMX only FMX.Forms has to come before VCL.Forms:

 

uses
  FMX.Forms,
  Vcl.Forms,

  ...

Edited September 29, 2021 by miab

[david_navigator 12]

2 hours ago, miab said:

As far as I know you could always mix VCL with FMX only FMX.Forms has to come before VCL.Forms:

 

uses
  FMX.Forms,
  Vcl.Forms,

  ...

The project file has no mention of FMX in it at all.

 

This is just a host VCL form in a VCL app where I mistyped a unit name i.e MyFormU rather then MyFormVCL_U and then instantiated the form thus

 

MyForm := TmyForm.Create(...);
MyForm.Showmodal;

 

It was only after running that I realised that the TmyForm being instantiated was the one from the FMX unit rather than the VCL one.

 

(If you're wondering why I have two similar units one VCL and one FMX, I'm in the process of converting a third party FMX project to VCL)

[miab 25]

Indeed
 

uses
//  FMX.Forms,
  Vcl.Forms,

   ...

 

compiles in D11 too

Edited September 29, 2021 by miab

[shineworld 73]

Look at this github project on how to embedded FMX form in a VCL application:

https://github.com/vintagedave/firemonkey-container

 

https://parnassus.co/open-source/tfiremonkeycontainer/

I will try next week to embed a FMX 3D Opengl form in my VCL App...

Edited September 29, 2021 by shineworld

[david_navigator 12]

43 minutes ago, shineworld said:

Look at this github project on how to embedded FMX form in a VCL application:

https://github.com/vintagedave/firemonkey-container

 

https://parnassus.co/open-source/tfiremonkeycontainer/

I will try next week to embed a FMX 3D Opengl form in my VCL App...

Thanks, but I don't actually need an FMX form in my VCL app, I was just more surprised that it worked !

[shineworld 73]

There are some very good things in FMX that I would like to have in VCL....
Migrate a full application from VCL to FMX is a nightmare and to have a way to do is not so bad.
For new projects, I will plan to TRY the FMX world.

Edited September 29, 2021 by shineworld

[sh17 26]

I set up the project again and incorporated all pull requests.

 

landrix/Delphi-Firemonkey-Container (github.com)

[#ifdef 12]

22 hours ago, sh17 said:

I set up the project again and incorporated all pull requests.

 

landrix/Delphi-Firemonkey-Container (github.com)

The big problem with all these "containers" is that they don't work with the Tab button :(

[DavidJr. 1]

Hi,  this is a nice feature.  I am able to render a Firemonkey rending of a 3D model within a VCL Form.   But it would be nice to be able to pass data back and forth between the FMX form and the VCL form.