Easily use TFrame or TForm descendants in your FireMonkey (FMX) applications to gain visual consistency though the whole user experience and easily add modern looking elements like effects and transitions.
Supported: Delphi 10.4 Sydney to Delphi 13 Florence, all the FMX platforms. All code and demos tested on Delphi 13 Florence. For older Delphi versions use v.2.0.1 (10.3) or v.1.8 (XE8 to 10.2).
TFrameStand and TFormStand are available on GetIt (Embarcadero's Package Manager) Link on GetIt website
Download TFrameStand_<version>_Setup.exe from the latest release: it builds and installs the packages in the RAD Studio versions you choose (10.4 to 13) and sets the library path for all the platforms. See Installation.
tms install andreamagni.tframestand builds and installs the packages for every supported Delphi version on your machine. See TMS Smart Setup.
- Open the package group for your Delphi version, e.g. “packages\13Florence\FrameStand.groupproj” (Delphi 13) or “packages\12Athens\FrameStand.groupproj” (Delphi 12)
- Build both contained packages
- Install the design time package (“dclFrameStandPackage”, the BPL is “dclFrameStandPackage370.bpl” for Delphi 13)
- Add “source\” library path for Delphi (repeat this for each platform you need to support)
Details in the installation guide.
Installing manually you get the latest updates (beware! :-) )
The Skills/ folder has an Agent Skill that teaches Claude Code and other AI coding agents to work with TFrameStand and TFormStand. In Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add andrea-magni/TFrameStand and /plugin install tframestand@tframestand. See AI Agent Skill.
- Use any TFrame/TForm and show it through TFrame/TFormStand to add animations, effects and stands (a common visual layer between the TFrame/TForm and its Parent)
- Share CommonActions through different UI combinations
- Responsive frame substitution
- Take advantage of design time style preview and Fire UI technology through TFormStand
andrea-magni.github.io/TFrameStand: guide, features, API reference and demos.
- Read the Your First Stand walkthrough
- Have a look at my blog posts about TFrameStand
- My CodeRage X session (50 min video covering all the basic functionalities)
- An entire chapter of my FMX book is dedicated to TFrameStand/TFormStand.
- wait: a wait splashscreen with running animation and opacity. Can be show on the top of a whole form or a single FMX control. Runs a task on a background thread and keeps UI responsive.
- lightbox: achieves the popular lightbox effect to show different kind of content (pictures, text, data) using a consistent UI. Also provides an example of CommonActions use (the Close button) and provides fade-in animation of content.
- material_button: a simple example to overlay a button on the form or any other control, with sliding animations.
- ViewAndDialogs: some Material Design-like transition to show a view (employee's details) and a dialog (rate a picture).
- PictureWall: show pictures in a TFlowLayout with a fading in transition.
- ButtonSet: mimics Android's Camera toolbuttons laying over your content.
- EditHelper: adds easy to customize buttons or controls to any TEdit.
- BottomSheet: implementation of a bottom sheet UI element with TFrameStand.
- ResponsiveProject: implementation of responsive application with FMX and TFrameStand.
- WizardSimpleProject: simple wizard example using frames.
- FormStandHelloWorld: Hello, World! demo for TFormStand (!), featuring Fire UI synergy.
- FormStandActionList: action list showcase with TFormStand.
- FormStandLiveBindings: LiveBindings showcase with TFormStand.
- Stand3D: example how to use a 3D container as stand for your frames
- HelloWorld: the minimal TFrameStand example (CodeRage X session).
- Dialog: a color picker dialog with a Common Action bound to a button and to the stand background.
build.cmd [13|12|11_1|11|10_4] [all] builds the packages, all the demos and the DUnitX test suite (tests\) for a Delphi version, and runs the tests; output in build\. See Building & Testing.
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