Contents
Issue 14, October 1996

• News
  Updates and product information

• Surviving Client/Server: Data Processing With Subqueries
  Steve Troxell shows how to exploit the flexibility of SQLÆs SELECT statement to build complex and powerful queries

• Customising TDrawGrid For Text Grids
  Steve Tung demonstrates how you can use TDrawGrid to display text and gain useful flexibility along the way

• Using Form Components With Delphi 1
  Save time by re-using your forms in Delphi 1 with Rohit GuptaÆs simple to implement tricks

• One Last Compile...
  The lighter side of Delphi

• Digging Into IDAPI Part 2
  John OÆConnell gives us a roundup of cursor properties, including record bookmarks, table rights, un-deleting records, table copying and renaming, packing and re-indexing, completing the picture with an enhanced version of TTable with loads of new functionality

• File Search And Delete Tree
  David Selwood presents some useful routines to delete a whole directory tree and search a directory tree for those elusive files your users have hidden!

• Under Construction: Testing And Debugging
  Bob Swart has some useful tips, techniques and guidelines for keeping your components bug-free and finding those few that slip through the net

• Printing In Delphi: Getting Printer Information
  Xavier Pacheco is back to unravel the secrets of obtaining details of printer capabilities

• Beating The System: The Private Life Of A WinHelp File (Part 3)
  Dave Jewell wraps up his exploration of Help file innards with a discussion of the phrase data; thereÆs a utility on the disk to completely decode Help files too!

• Turbocharging Database Applications With TLists
  Jonathan Morgan shows how you can make your database applications zip along by transferring frequently referenced tables to TList structures

• Review: SysTools
  Bob Swart checks out this collection of utility routines from TurboPower

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers

• On The Disk
  All the goodies on this monthÆs disk, including Mike OrrissÆ latest collection of tested shareware and freeware