Delphi Cookbook

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: "The TStyleManager.StyleNames property contains all names of the available styles."

A block of code is set as follows:

LogMessage('Your message goes here for SUCCESS', 
         EVENTLOG_SUCCESS, 0, 1);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

begin
  Application.Initialize;
  Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := True;
  TStyleManager.TrySetStyle('Iceberg ...