XE3 Visual LiveBindings

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Here is a list of the LiveBindings changes we've made for XE3.    I'll start digging into details next time.

New Designer

  • The LiveBindings designer is used to connect controls, component properties and data sources.

  • Commands to create controls and data sources


New capabilities

  • Lookups

  • Bind to user defined data such as TList<T>

  • Prototype data

  • Actions (See post)


Improvements

  • Faster list and grid filling

  • Automatic updates (no need to call Notify() as in XE2)

  • Better VCL support


New "Quick Binding" components

  • TLinkControlToField

  • TLinkControlToProperty

  • TLinkFillControlToField (for linking a list control to a field, and filling the list with possible values)

  • TLinkFillControlToProperty

  • TLinkGridControlToDataSource

  • TLinkListToField (for using a list to view all rows of a field, rather than edit a field)


New Data Source components  (See these great posts from Malcolm!)



  • TBindSourceDB (named TBindScopeDB in XE2)

  • TBindSourceDBX

  • TPrototypeBindSource

  • TAdapterBindSource

  • TDataGeneratorAdapter

  • TListBindSourceAdapter<T>

  • TListBindSourceAdapter (use non-generic version with C++)

  • TObjectBindSourceAdapter<T>

  • TObjectBindSourceAdapter


New controls



  • TBindNavigator for VCL (works like FireMonkey TBindNavigator)


Observers

Binding component use control observers to get change notifications.



  • New observer interface

    • IControlValueChanged



  • New VCL control observer implementations

    • TListView



  • FMX

    • TColorPanel

    • TColorComboBox

    • TArcDial






Deprecated binding components

These were in XE2.  They are also in  XE3 but superseded by the "Quick Binding" components.



  • TBindDBEditLink

  • TBindDBTextLink

  • TBindDBListLink

  • TBindDBImageLink

  • TBindDBMemoLink

  • TBindDBCheckLink

  • TBindDBGridLink



Tags: Data Binding Delphi LiveBindings Visual LiveBindings XE3

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