Essential Delphi 3 fast : Includes ActiveX Development

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

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Essential Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Delphi 3 is a true object oriented, visual programming environment. If you need to write complex applications for Windows 95, Delphi is an excellent choice. Many professional developers considered that the user interface and the facilities that Delphi 2.0 offers were superior to any other programming environment. Delphi 3 has an improved user interface and offers many additional features. One of the most exciting recent developments has been ActiveX. Delphi 3.0 has all the tools that you need to develop ActiveX components. Essential Delphi 3.0 presents all of the key features of Delphi including database and ActiveX applications with many examples. The key events and methods, graphics programming, using Object Pascal, designing menus and debugging are some of the features covered. Essential Delphi 3.0 is designed for professional developers or students who need to learn the maximum in the minimum time and to develop applications fast.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Why Use Delphi 3?....Pages 1-4
The Delphi Environment....Pages 5-12
The Standard Component Palette....Pages 13-24
Using the Standard Components....Pages 25-36
The Additional Component Palette....Pages 37-50
Displaying and Reading Text....Pages 51-60
Using Forms....Pages 61-79
Object Pascal....Pages 80-96
Creating Records, Classes and Objects....Pages 97-106
Creating Active Forms....Pages 107-119
Mouse and Keyboard Events....Pages 120-127
Creating and Using Graphics....Pages 128-141
Menus....Pages 142-151
Using Databases....Pages 152-164
Fixing bugs....Pages 165-175
The Visual Component Library....Pages 176-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-188

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques