Contents
Issue 26, October 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Trapping Keystrokes
  Warren Kovach demonstrates how to trap system-wide keystrokes by hooking into the Windows API, with a nifty Tray icon application to make entering accented and extended characters so easy as his example

• Surviving Client/Server: Custom Dataset Components, 2
  Following on from last monthÆs introduction, Steve Troxell concludes his discussion of database access without the BDE, covering null, date/time, calculated and lookup fields

• Under Construction: Homepage Hit Counter
  WhoÆs been coming to call? Bob Swart shows how to construct various types of hit counter for your website so you can discover exactly how popular you are!

• Things You Can Do With Standard Controls: TPageControl
  Brian Long delves further into the mechanics of owner-draw controls, this month showing how to jazz up your notebooks by placing the tabs anywhere you want, replace them with buttons, or even use images along with the text descriptions of each tab

• Extending Web Solution Builder
  Web Solution Builder (previously known as Portcullis/IAG) is a neat way to create web applications in Delphi, but you can also extend it, as its lead developer Chad Hower shows us, with custom HTML writers, placeholders to add non-Delphi HTML features and even customise Delphi existing components

• Beating The System: Runtime Library Determination Utility
  Imagine a customer calling up to complain you forgot to include a vital DLL in the distribution package! Dave Jewell can help you avoid such embarrassment with his utility to find just what DLLs and Delphi packages your new masterpiece needs

• One Last Compile...
  Interface issues: would you like to call an ambulance? ...and whatÆs that bright green alien trying to say?

• DirectX 3D In Delphi
  Andrew Kern and Noel Rice demonstrate how to exploit MicrosoftÆs DirectX 3D graphics library in your own Delphi applications, with a bare-bones example to get you started

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems: constructing a data-aware date/time picker and using custom data formats with the Windows clipboard

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, edited by Mike Orriss, including: resurrecting ôlostö BDE aliases, date arithmetic, making VCL changes without having to modify (or even have access to) the source code, notebook and menu hints and using version information

• On The Disk