Essential Delphi 2.0 Fast : How to Develop Applications in Delphi 2.0

✍ Scribed by John Cowell BSc(Hons), MPhil, PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Series: Essential Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Delphi is a new Windows software development environment from Borland. Released in 1995, it has quickly built up an excellent reputation as one of the best Windows software development tools.
John Cowell shows how to program in Delphi using various tools. He provides lots of examples and illustrations and describes various database specific tools included with the Delphi package. The book shows how to use the Borland database engine along with other database formats (including Microsoft's Access). There are a number of chapters which cover the object-oriented aspects of Pascal, and advanced programming techniques such as drag-and-drop, DDE, OLE, and the creation of on-line help systems are also looked at. New users, as well as current Visual Basic users wanting to get up to speed on Delphi, will find this clear and informative book provides all the information they need to develop Windows applications quickly, competently, and easily.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Why Use Delphi?....Pages 1-8
Running Delphi....Pages 9-15
The Disappearing Memo....Pages 16-22
How Projects are Organised....Pages 23-30
The Standard Component Palette....Pages 31-36
Computer Buyers Survey....Pages 37-44
Dialog Boxes....Pages 45-49
Using Forms....Pages 50-60
MDI Forms....Pages 61-65
Menus....Pages 66-77
Debugging....Pages 78-88
Graphics....Pages 89-103
Mouse and Keyboard Events....Pages 104-108
Using Databases....Pages 109-121
Delphi Components Reference....Pages 122-151
Pascal Primer....Pages 152-170
Object Pascal....Pages 171-175
Delphi and Visual Basic....Pages 176-179
Back Matter....Pages 181-184

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques