Contents
Issue 38, October 1998

• News
  More updates from the world of Delphi development.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Like A Tattoo, Introducing Graphs
  No, not those pretty things you do on squared paper, but computer science graphs (used, for example, in calculating the smallest distance to drive between appointments in several places). Clever stuff from Julian Bucknall...

• Building A Parsing Component
  Paul Warren found he got more projects that involved parsing some kind of file to extract information from it. So he sat down and wrote a suite of parsing components to make life easier. His article describes the implementation of parsers for text, comma-separated data, HTML and Delphi Object Pascal code.

• Under Construction: MIDAS, CORBA And TClientDataSet
  Multi-tier architecture is all the rage and Bob Swart provides a timely and practical introduction to Delphi 4’s support to help you get started.

• Creating A Delphi Build Process
  Dave Collie discusses the creation of an automated build process for your Delphi projects, including EXEs, DLLs, resource and help files and so on. Ideal for those working as part of a development team, or where a product includes more than one application.

• Beating the System: A Delphi Version Reporting Component
  Dave Jewell unravels Microsoft’s VERSION resource to create a neat way of using the information contained in your applications at runtime.

• Com Corner: Distributed Computing
  Steve Teixeira continues our series on COM progamming with a lucid explanation of the pros and cons of DCOM and CORBA, helping you to choose the right option for your project. Are you drowning in the alphabet soup of acronyms? Don’t miss Steve’s explanation.

• Surviving Client/Server: Interactive Query Building
  Steve Troxell discusses how to implement interactive query building to give your users the power to create their own queries without learning SQL.

• Creating TTables And TFields At Runtime
  Bob Swart describes how to create tables and fields on the fly at runtime to make life easier when distributing your database applications.

• One Last Compile...
  The rock pools of Delphi

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: undocumented Delphi 4 goodies, preventing a Windows shutdown, making a program restart  when Windows starts, the details of intercepting keystrokes and dynamic fonts.