Creating a styled TListBox
As you saw in the previous recipe, it is possible to style styled controls and completely change their appearance. While in the VCL, the TListBox control is a mere wrapper over the correspondent control in the MS Windows API; in FireMonkey, the TListBox component is a completely different beast. A TListBox component contains a list of TListBoxItem, and a TListBox item is a TStyledControl descendant. This means that every single item in a TListBox component can be styled! This feature opens a huge set of new possibilities regarding the use of the control.
Getting ready
In this recipe, you'll see a set of styled TListBoxItem components that when added to TListBox, changes its appearance completely. Let's say you have a listbox ...
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