I want to dig a little into the formatting support in LiveBindings. How can we control how our data is displayed when we bind it to UI elements?

If we go back to the traditional data binding support in VCL, different TField descendants exposed different formatting properties. For example, TNumericField exposes a DisplayFormat property where you can specify a format string to be used when displaying the contents. TField also exposes an OnGetText event where you can do whatever you like to the value before it is displayed in the UI. Read On…

Where I left off in my last post, we were able to bind our UI elements to an object, or indeed a collection of objects, by using the TAdapterBindSource combined with a TObjectBindSourceAdapter<T> or a TListBindSourceAdapter<T>.

Over a few posts I want to drill a bit deeper into what happens when you make changes to those objects, specifically in this post, when you make changes via the bound controls. I’ll explore the notification system that LiveBindings uses in later posts. Read On…

In the last post I introduced BindSources, a new set of classes in the LiveBinding system in RAD Studio XE3, and in particular, looked at TBindSourceDB. That’s fine if what you are binding to is a Dataset, but what happens if what you want to bind to is an object? Read On…