Contents
Issue 7, March 1996

• News
  Updates from the Delphi world

• Building A Database Expert
  Marco Cant∙ and Bob Swart show how to build a 16- and 32- bit database expert

• File Handling: Part 2
  This month Brian Long covers error handling for file operations and shows how file and record locking is done

• Surviving Client/Server: Stored Procedures Part 2
  Steve Troxell concludes his look at SQL stored procedures and triggers

• Under Construction: Data-Aware Components
  Bob Swart shows how to build your own data-aware controls, using a control to play WAV sound data from BLOB fields as an example

• Review: TOLEAutomationClient
  Micha Somers explains OLE Automation and reviews a component from New Zealand which takes a good deal of the hard work out of implementing it in your own applications

• Delphi Internals: Disk Serial Numbers & CD-ROMs
  Dave Jewell shows how to get and set disk serial numbers as well as identify CD-ROM drives

• Building A Joystick Component
  Ken Otto explains how to interface joysticks with your Delphi applications using WindowsÆ MMSYSTEM API

• Review: Delphi RAD Pack
  Bob Swart evaluates BorlandÆs add-on pack for Delphi 1.0 û just how useful is it in your daily development work?

• YAST: Yet Another Stack Tracer!
  Hallvard Vassbotn delves deeply into your programsÆ operation to show how stack tracing can help in finding those really nasty bugs and presents a code unit you can plug straight in

• Review: Graphics Server And Light Lib Business
  We put these two charting libraries for Delphi through their paces

• The Delphi Clinic
  Answers to more of your æHow do I...?Æ queries and æWhy wonÆt it...Æ problems, with Brian Long in the hot seat

• Tips & Tricks
  Included in this monthÆs column are a fix for TLabelÆs enabled property and building event chains

• On The Disk
  A run-down of all the goodies on the subscribersÆ free disk with this issue