Contents
Issue 2, July 1995

• News
  All the latest Delphi news, including new product information and updates from Borland

• Book Review: Delphi Programming For Dummies by Neil Rubenking
  Reviewed by Bob Swart

• Subclassing Windows
  Brian Long shows how to customise your windows and controls using various subclassing techniques

• Under Construction: Tic-Tac-Toe
  Bob SwartÆs component-building column focusses on encapsulating DLLs into Delphi components, by means of a tic-tac-toe game example (better known to British readers as noughts-and-crosses!)

• Moving Up: Visual Basic
  Dave Jewell with helpful advice for those moving to Delphi from VB

• Building Quality Help Systems
  Robert Palomo shows how to keep your users happy by designing and writing better Help systems for your applications

• Drag & Drop Is Easy...
  Stuart Lunn shows how to make your applications accept files dragged and dropped from Windows File Manager, with other handy tips along the way

• Delphi Internals: Undocumented Secrets, Part 1
  Dave Jewell delves under the bonnet of Delphi to look at form resources and how to implement unions

• The Delphi Clinic
  Answers to your æHow do I...?Æ queries and æWhy wonÆt it...Æ problems û Bob Swart collates the answers; amongst the topics covered are implementations of familiar Basic string functions, shelling out to another application and removing scroll bars from a DBGrid control

• Tips & Tricks
  This is the place to share those hints and helps that make your life easier day by day; in this issue we cover IDE and performance hints, how to pass variable numbers of parameters to routines, exporting classes from DLLs, more DBGrid fixes, special canvas implementations and bitmap hints and a Clipboard object which handles Tstrings string lists!

• On The Disk
  A run-down of all the goodies which are on the free disk included with this issue, which includes all the source code for Issue 1 as well as this issue