Contents
Issue 28, December 1997

• News
  Updates and product information

• Subclassing
  Brandon Smith explains how Windows API subclassing can improve your applications and provides some useful hints and techniques

• Surviving Client/Server: Phonetic Matching
  Matching the right information data to the right database record can be tricky, but Steve Troxell has the solutions: Soundex and Metaphone phonetic matching, all ready to roll

• Surviving SQL
  Steve Troxell brings us the first of his occasional SQL hints and tips column, this monthÆs edition is an SQL implementation of Soundex

• Under Construction: Assertions
  Delphi 3 introduced assertions and Bob Swart explains how to use them to best effect in error handling, along with implementations for earlier Delphi versions too

• Delphi Meets COM: Part 1
  COM (or Component Object Model) programming is becoming increasingly important in Windows and Dave Jewell starts this series by explaining the foundations of it all and just why itÆs something we all need to know about

• Get On The Web With Delphi 3
  In a two-part series, John OÆConnell aims to explain (nearly) everything you need to know about writing web applications but didnÆt know you needed to ask

• One Last Compile...
  Dear Santa

• Beating The System: Using OpenGL In Delphi Apps
  Dave Jewell shows how to produce high-quality photo-realistic 3D graphics using MicrosoftÆs implementation of OpenGL, and compares OpenGL with DirectX

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your Delphi development problems: which page is TPageControl changing to, removing components from Delphi 3, getting version build numbers to increment, custom MessageDlg captions, Blob size in SQL Server, Paradox table language, checking for a running executable, project opening and customising undo facilities

• Tips & Tricks
  Hints and helps from readers, edited by Mike Orriss, including: using Delphi 3Æs interface support, limiting form dimensions, string matching, current cell co-ordinates in a DBGrid, horizontal scrollbars in a ListBox, finding the oldest and newest file, painting on a GroupBox

• On The Disk