Contents
Issue 8, April 1996
News
Updates from the Delphi world
Surviving Client/Server: All About Aliases
Steve Troxell explains how to use the TDatabase and TSession components
to configure the BDE in your applications
Structured Exception Handling
Bob Swart gives the low down on DelphiÆs excellent error handling, showing
how to use exceptions effectively in your own applications
File Handling 3: File Handles
Having covered file variables and error handling Brian Long now turns to
using handles to manipulate files in your applications, with details of
all the associated routines
Under Construction: Component Editors
Bob Swart describes how to make use of DelphiÆs built-in component editors
and shows how to build your own too
Modelling Systems With Components
Paul Warren discusses how he used Delphi components to model decision trees
and electronic circuits!
Delphi Internals: Disk Formatting Basics
Continuing his examination of disk fundamentals Dave Jewell explains what
makes floppy disks tick and how to read and write to absolute sectors
Inside The BDE: Building A Data Dictionary
Brandon Smith reveals some of the goodies inside the Borland Database Engine,
building a handy data dictionary application for Delphi 1 along the way
A Delphi Bootstrap
John Braga describes how he overcame application and BDE configuration
problems in developing a diary system for networked users
Review: ImageLib 1.3
ImageLib from Skyline Tools handles the loading, display, manipulation
and saving of a multitude of bitmap formats, should it be on your wanted
list?
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 lost pointers, I/O error handling for
Delphi 2, hints in DLL forms and a TDirectoryOutline bug fix
On The Disk
A run-down of all the goodies on the subscribersÆ free disk with this issue