delphivcl.Application
is the type used for a GUI windowed application. Application
encapsulates a windowed application. The methods and properties introduced in the Application
reflect the fundamentals established in the Windows operating system to create, run, sustain, and destroy an application.
Application
thereby simplifies the interface between the developer and the Windows environment. For this purpose, the Application
encapsulates behavior for:
- Windows message processing
- Context-sensitive online help
- Menu accelerator and key processing
- Exception handling
- Managing the fundamental parts defined by the Windows operating system for an application, such as
MainWindow
,WindowClass
, and so on
Each GUI application automatically declares an Application
variable as the instance of the application. If the application is not a Web server application, control panel applet, or NT service application, this variable is of type Application
.
Application
does not appear on the Component
palette, nor is it available in the form designer to visually manipulate; so it has no published properties.
We can browse all the properties, methods, and built-in properties of the delphivcl.Application
in Python using dir()
command:
See the responses in command prompt:
See them more clearly here:
Let’s create a Python main function that can run and close an application window:
Note for beta release users
In practice, the only difference between DelphiVCL for Python release version and the beta version is only in how you write the DelphiVCL. Here is the example for how you import the library:
- Release version:
- Beta version:
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References & further readings
[1] Embarcadero DocWiki. (2011).
Vcl.Forms.TApplication
. Embarcadero DocWiki. Embarcadero Technologies. docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl. Forms.TForm