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Firemonkey brings us the ability to add styles, vector graphics, bitmaps, effects, animations etc to our apps. But I'm no designer, so I'll need to hire one to do the fancy work. But as far as I can see all the design work is done within the IDE.

Is there an easy way to enable a designer to work on a project without needing the to have a copy of Delphi XE2 and a full copy of my source code?

(Yes, they can edit the .style file, but that not exactly visual or convenient).

Mike Sutton
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    It should be Embarcadero's business to fill the gaps in the FireMonkey ecosystem. From what I know about FireMonkey I would compare it with Adobe AIR. It took Adobe 4 major versions to fully integrate their design tools like Photoshop or Illustrator via Flash Catalyst with the IDE Flash Builder. – splash Sep 04 '11 at 17:15
  • I don't think there is an external style editor for FireMonkey yet. It would be nice to have one outside the IDE, but for now, it seems that only the IDE has one. – Rudy Velthuis Sep 04 '11 at 19:51

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It looks as if, currently, there is only the editor in the Delphi IDE. Perhaps someone (Embarcadero or 3rd party) will write an external one. The format is very similar to that of a .dfm of .fmx.

So currently, what is left is editing the styles in a text editor, I'm afraid. Not something a professional GUI designer would love to do, I guess. Sorry.

Rudy Velthuis
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