Learn Delphi Programming | Unit 9.2 | Styling and Reorganizing Your Delphi Code

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Delphi Programming Tutorial - Unit 9.2 - Styling and Reorganizing Your Delphi Code for Improved Readability:

When working on large-scale Delphi projects, it is possible to distribute the workload between multiple programmers. It is also possible that members in a programming team need to work on the same code units.

It is therefore important for a programmer to write "clean" code, meaning code that is easily understood by the rest of the team. A few techniques are demonstrated in this tutorial to improve the readability of Delphi code:

1. Line continuation: When instructions are getting too long in the code editor (unit), they can be shortened by splitting the statement over multiple lines. However, it is important to know where a statement can be split to avoid errors.

2. Indentation: The readability of code can also be improved by indenting nested statements in such a way that the beginning and end of code blocks stand out prominently. Indentation can be done with the Tab key or the Space key.

3. Blank lines: Another way of improving the readability of code is to "batch" statements that are related together. For example, all statements that change properties of a specific object can be "batched", while all statements calling a specific method will be placed in the same "batch". Batches can then be separated by a blank line (like new paragraphs in an essay).

We implement all three these techniques in our code for the "Contact Information" project.

Happy learning!

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[mikrandr]

In Lazarus(and Delphi?) you can move selected block of lines by pressing 'ctrl+u' and "ctrl+i".

[muhammadshahrizal]

Great videos . i been following the whole videos series. I am learning a lot. Please continue with you good work and create more video. I would like to learn more.

[troyfrei]

Great video!Are you going do some videos on Refactoring, where you can rename variable, and methods (procedures).Thanks again for taking your time to help others learn Delphi.

[MarceloBFS]

Are this playlist over? Please don´t stop doing videos on the Contact Information contact, i would like to learn by your lessons things like, how do i set a database with tables to save the informations that i typing on the informations contatct program, or how do i link this form to other forms. And i have questions like, can i creat visual efects on delphi´s forms? or can i Creat a dinamic backgound?
i´m really glad to have found your channel, english is not my native language and i
understanded everything that you have explained.So Thank You! Really really Much and
please don´t stop the lessons.

[swagman]

This was an amazing tutorial/series but Gerhard said at the end of this video there was more to come. Was the course ever completed?
I understand there is so much that goes into making these videos not just time but expense. I did join the course on the learndelphi.net site but I got sidetracked in my studies and didn't finish it. Now I can't seem to get to it anymore.