Contents
Issue 27, November 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Delusions Of Grandeur
  Julian Bucknall knows that itÆs a big wide multilingual world out there and has come up with some clever techniques to ensure that text strings which include all those funny accented, extended and ligature characters always sort correctly

• Surviving Client/Server: Data Mining With TDecisionCube
  The Client/Server Edition of Delphi 3 includes a new suite of components which make presenting complex data a simple task; Steve Troxell shows how to use them to best effect so that your users can go on their very own mining expeditions...

• Under Construction: TBrokenLink Component
  Now you know whoÆs visiting your website (see last monthÆs column), itÆs time to find and fix up all those broken links! Bob Swart creates a component to find both local and internet-wide broken links, plus thereÆs a copy of his InterBob link checker on the disk too!

• One Last Compile...
  How often do you do it?

• Delphi 3 Add-In Packages: Digging The Dirt On Archaeopteryx
  Brian LongÆs curiosity got the better of him when he checked out a couple of the new Delphi 3 IDE add-ins: he figured out how the magic was done and created his very own add-in, called Archaeopteryx; even better, now heÆs sharing the secrets he discovered with us all

• Beating The System: EXE Sniffing, The Story Continues...
  No, Dave Jewell hasnÆt found some crazy new way to get high, but this month heÆs delving inside your Delphi executables to determine just what units and packages are compiled into them

• Who Am I?
  Xavier Pacheco shows how to use version information in your Delphi 3 projects: adding it and retrieving it, with a handy TVerInfoRes class to make it all even simpler

• Controls Demystified
  Controls, components: which is which and why does it matter? Glenn Lawrence has the answers and some very helpful hints to improve your applications

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems, including: UNC drive names, DiskFree problems, context help, getting Access table names and DLL import tables

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, edited by Mike Orriss, including: Win32 API error codes, when to use const parameters, a colours property editor, a filtered component property editor, plus a wrapper for DbiDoRestructure which vastly simplifies restructuring your Paradox tables

• On The Disk