Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE...
by memsom on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:47AM
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No. (Caveat, last version I used was version 5 from 1999.)
Delphi forms are in one of two formats.
1) Binary serialization of the form data (this is the older versions, pre 4/5)
2) A textual representation.
The code for a Delphi form was pre-XML, but it looked like a set of standard markup. There were resources (Form, Button, Edit, Label - these types of control) and they were laid out in a hierarchical developer readable form in blocks. The form code was streamed to/from the file (the files were embedded as resources in the Eve, and the form was read and re-constituted at runtime as well as design time.) Borland made a massive deal about the "two way editing" one could do to the forms. The developer was able to cut and paste controls, and the controls were cut/copied as straight text, which could be pasted to notepad (for example) IIRC.
Delphi forms are in one of two formats.
1) Binary serialization of the form data (this is the older versions, pre 4/5)
2) A textual representation.
The code for a Delphi form was pre-XML, but it looked like a set of standard markup. There were resources (Form, Button, Edit, Label - these types of control) and they were laid out in a hierarchical developer readable form in blocks. The form code was streamed to/from the file (the files were embedded as resources in the Eve, and the form was read and re-constituted at runtime as well as design time.) Borland made a massive deal about the "two way editing" one could do to the forms. The developer was able to cut and paste controls, and the controls were cut/copied as straight text, which could be pasted to notepad (for example) IIRC.