Hydra Articles
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Getting Started
This section contains topics for beginners, aimed at getting you started with your first projects and common tasks. We also recommend checkout out our full Getting Started area for Hydra, for a structured list of articles, how-tos, videos, and more.
- A Brief Tour of Hydra — This article gives a brief description of the ideas behind Hydra.
- Hydrafying your Application — This article describes a basic ideas of converting existing application into the application that powered with Hydra framework.
Architecture
Dive deeper into the architecture of Hydra; learn how everything fits together, how the underlying class infrastructure provides the core functionality of Hydra, and the design philosophies and ideas behind the project.
- Hydra Overview — Read an overview of the Hydra framework which will give you a basic description of the Hydra code parts.
Hosts
- FireMonkey Host — This article gives an instructions on how to create and setup a Hydra host for the new FireMonkey framework.
- FireMonkey Support — Learn how to work with Hydra for FireMonkey to create hosts and plugins
- Passing interfaces between Host and Plugins — This articles describes how to establish communication between hosts and plugins via custom interfaces.
- VCL Host — This article gives an instructions on how to create and setup a Hydra host for the VCL framework.
- WinForms Host — This article gives an instructions on how to create and work with a WinForms host application.
Plugins
- .NET Non-Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a .NET non-visual Hydra plugins.
- Cross Platform Plugins with Hydra — This article provides a quick preview of how to mix managed (.NET) and unmanaged (Delphi) code in your application, with Cross-Platform Plugins.
- Delphi Non-Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a non-visual Hydra plugins.
- FireMonkey Support — Learn how to work with Hydra for FireMonkey to create hosts and plugins
- FireMonkey Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a visual Hydra plugins for new FireMonkey framework.
- Passing interfaces between Host and Plugins — This articles describes how to establish communication between hosts and plugins via custom interfaces.
- RemObjects SDK Plugins — Learn how to combine Hydra and RemObjects SDK to create modular service applications that can load, unload and update individual services as needed.
- Silverlight Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a visual Hydra plugins for Silverlight.
- VCL Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a visual Hydra plugins for Delphi VCL.
- WinForms Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a visual Hydra plugins for WinForms.
- WPF Visual Plugins — This article gives an instructions on how to work with a visual Hydra plugins for WPF.
Cross-Platform
- Passing interfaces between Host and Plugins — This articles describes how to establish communication between hosts and plugins via custom interfaces.
Misc
- Hydra Autoupdate Explained — This article describes how to use Hydra's auto-update feature to build your own auto-update service.
- Hydra support for Menus and Toolbars — This article describes how Delphi hosts can be extended with menus and toolbars that defined in the Hydra plugins.
