Contents
Issue 24, August 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Under Construction: Delphi 3 Web Modules, Part 1
  Bob Swart begins a 2-part investigation into the new web modules includedwith Delphi 3Æs Client/Server Edition

• Things You Can Do With Standard Controls: TMenuItem
  Brian Long unravels more secrets of owner draw controls, demonstrating how to spice up your menus with glyphs

• Surviving Client/Server: Credit Payments, Part 2
  Following on from last monthÆs case study, Steve Troxell wraps up theproject with more helpful design and implementation hints

• Creating NT Services
  Services are a powerful feature of Windows NT, but how can you writeyour own? John Chaytor has the answers, with example programs and Delphi classes to make it simpler

• Beating The System: Zip Files, Peeking Under The Hood
  The ubiquitous Zip file is everywhere nowadays and Dave Jewell shows how to delve inside and find whatÆs there

• One Last Compile...
  I love my company, and my company loves me

• Implementing Class-Traps For Delphi And C++Builder
  Cyril Jandia wants to be in at the birth and death of his objects so he came up with a simple technique, encapsulatedin the TClassTrap class

• Nashville BDC:A MikeÆs Eye View
  Mike Orriss reports back on his experiences at BorlandÆs annual conference, held this year in Nashville, Tennessee

• More News From Nashville
  Borland used their conference to make some key announcements: hereÆs a summary

• Review: ISGMAPI
  Your apps could have built in emailand fax capabilities at the drop of ahat with  this component from Infinity Software and a little help from MS Exchange, reviewed by Peter Hyde

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers toyour Delphi development problems, including: making 256 colour bitmaps, handing MsgDialog responses and making your apps iconic

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, including: a typed TObject bug, modifying form files and BDE version incompatibilities

• On The Disk