Plan Ahead When It Comes To FireMonkey & iOS

I don't intend to move to XE2 or XE(next) anytime soon, I have my hands full just porting over my old applications from D5 to D2010. However, I would like to take advantage of FireMonkey and the iOS market when the time is right so I'm planning ahead and so can you.

I am currently working on adding Inifile support to my application to keep track of window sizes and position. I asked on StackOverflow if FireMonkey has anything similar to GetSystemMetrics. Whiler posted a snice snippet of code that uses FX.Platform. (Merci Beaucoup Whiler)

My first thought was it's too bad I can't use this piece of code today. Then I had one of those aha moments. I thought to myself,

"Why not add this as a comment in your Delphi code."

So that's what I did.

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{
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FireMonkey Consideration:
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Question asked on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10564505
I'm rewriting an old application using Delphi 2010 and I'd like
to put placeholders in my code for when I port it over to XE2.
Just curious if FireMonkey has an equivilent to GetSystemMetrics.
I'm specifically interested in:

GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN)
GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN)
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If you just need the main monitor size, and not the desktop size
(n monitors sum), you can use this:

uses ..., FMX.Platform;

var   p: TPointF;
begin
  p := Platform.GetScreenSize;
  ShowMessage(Format('X: %f' + LineFeed + 'Y: %f', [p.X, p.Y]));

From: Whiler
http://blogs.wittwer.fr/whiler/
----------------------------------------------------------------
}
unit IniFileStuff;

interface

uses
  Windows, SysUtils, Forms, IniFiles;

type
  TScreenType  = (MainScreen, PreviewScreen);

Procedure InitializeIniFile();
Procedure ResetScreenSection(ScreenType:TScreenType);
Function WindowStateToInt(WSType:TWindowState):integer;
Function IntToWindowState(WSInt:integer):TWindowState;
...

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So, even though I'm not using FireMonkey today, I've documented my code so when I do go to use FireMonkey I'll have a decent head start.

Don't keep it - Pass it on.
Semper Fi - Gunny Mike