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Updates and product informationBeating The System: Explorer-Style Active Buttons
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Having shown us how to easily create CoolBars, Dave Jewell is back with the low-down on making the buttons to go onto them!One Last Compile...
Getting by (with a little help from my friends)The Delphi 3 Novelty Store
Brian Long has the first part of an in-depth preview of Delphi 3: this store is packed to overflowing with mouth-watering goodies!Surviving Client/Server: User-Defined SQL Functions
If you find standard SQL has run out of steam, Steve Troxell shows that knocking up extra user-defined functions for Interbase is a piece of cake in DelphiUnder Construction: Multi-Threading In Components
Bob Swart explains how to implement multi-threading in your applications and custom components and his concurrent programming tips help keep some hungry Dutch monks alive...Things You Can Do With Standard Controls: The ListBox
Brian Long demonstrates just how powerful the humble ListBox is, showing how to display non-text items, adding tab character support and a horizontal scrollbar tooReview: Async Professional
Dave Jewell has taken TurboPowerÆs comprehensive suite of serial communications components out for a test drive: hereÆs his road reportClient/Server Caching Using File Streams
Database client applications can get bogged down accessing rarely-changing data from the server every time; Neil McClements shows how to speed things up easily using file streams to cache this data, with chached combo box and cached calendar implementations for you to try outThe Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems, including: getting Delphi 2 and 3Æs Help systems to work together, trapping keystrokes effectively, writing property editors for DLL wrapper components and accessing the hardware ports directly under Windows 95 and NTTips & Tricks
Hints and helps from readers, including: techniques for cleaner and more reliable code, managing SQL stored procedures, table cloning, a bug in the BDE Paradox driver (with workaround) and tips on initialising variables