Contents
Issue 1, April 1995
News
All the latest news from the Delphi world, including information on new
products you can use to make Delphi even better
The Delphi Idiom
Steve Teixeira gets us into the Delphi groove...
Optimised Display Updating
Mike Scott shows how to make your screen refreshes really fast
Under Construction: Build Your Own Components
Bob Swart kicks off his regular column by showing us how to get started
on writing Delphi components
Moving Up: Borland Pascal
Dave Jewell gives the Borland Pascal developers amongst us the low down
on moving up to Delphi
Introducing Client/Server
Sundar Rajan cuts through the jargon with a beginnerÆs guide to what Client/Server
development is all about and the benefits offered by Delphi
Delphi Internals: Using And Writing DLLs
Dave Jewell begins his regular column on low-level Delphi issues by showing
us how to use and write dynamic link libraries in Delphi
Book Review: æInside Windows 95Æ by Adrian King
Bob Swart is our reviewer
Using The Borland Visual Solutions Pack
Jeroen Pluimers reviews BorlandÆs low-cost pack of VBX custom controls
and shows how they can be used to advantage in your Delphi projects
Animation Made Easy
Xavier Pacheco knows all about UFOs û well, at least he can tell you how
to get them scudding gracefully about your screen! Sprite animation doesnÆt
come much easier than this...
The Delphi Clinic
HereÆs the place to come with all those æHow do I...?Æ queries and the
æWhy wonÆt it...Æ problems û Bob Swart collates the answers from our team
of expert contributors and amongst the topics in this issue is a detailed
explanation of how to work with MS Access database files
Tips & Tricks
This is the place to share those hints and helps that make your life easier
day by day
Review: The ChiefÆs Installer Pro
Bob Swart looks into this shareware Windows installation program which
is ideal for installing your Delphi applications û even better, it will
be included on the free disk youÆll receive with Issue 2 of The Delphi
Magazine!