Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Style manipulation at runtime is done using the class methods of the TStyleManager class."

A block of code is set as follows:

procedure TMainForm.StylesListRefresh;
var
  stylename: string;
begin
  ListBox1.Clear;
  // retrieve all the styles linked in the executable
  for stylename in TStyleManager.StyleNames do
  begin
    ListBox1.Items.Add(stylename);
  end;
end;

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