Contents
Issue 39, November 1998

• News
  More updates from the world of Delphi development.

• Base64 MIME Encoding
  Damon Matthews describes how to implement Base64 MIME encoding and decoding of binary data: very useful if you have an application which you need to send email with binary attachments from.

• Slimming The Fat Off Your Apps
  Hallvard Vassbotn wants to slim the fat off your software: tune in here if you want [your programs] to be leaner and fitter...

• New Delphi 4 User Interface Features
  Warren Kovach checks out some of the new user interface features which were introduced with Delphi 4, including bitmaps on menus, floating dockable toolbars and more.

• One Last Compile...
  Delphi Goes To Hollywood.

• COM Corner: Automation Events
  Steve Teixeira explains the mysteries of events in COM programming: if you’ve avoided them until now or bravely wrestled with implementation, help is at hand...

• Algorithms Alfresco: Priority Queues And Heapsort
  To progress his discussion of graph algorithms Julian Bucknall takes a slight detour to discuss priority queues and how to work with them, handily showing how to implement the heapsort algorithm along the way too.

• Under Construction: Website Visitor Tracking
  Bob Swart builds on his introduction to distributed computing by creating a distributed application to monitor and track website visitors in full detail and glorious technicolor.

• Beating the System: Surfing Explorer’s Namespace
  Strange that Delphi doesn’t provide a nice neat tree-view dialog to allow your users to select a directory, isn’t it? Dave Jewell thought so too and set to with a will to wrap up the SHBrowseForFolder API routine for us and provide some useful enhancements too.

• Preventative Programming: Code Smarter, Debug Less
  Chad Z Hower wants us all to get home earlier and spend less time staring moodily at the debugger, so he’s come up with a raft of hints, helps and tips to ensure our programs work right from the first compile.

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: Paradox table lock information, formatting numbers, tab stops in rich edits, retrieving DOS environment variables, the Paradox net file, dates in SQL, creating folders and shortcuts in Windows and multi-line tooltip hints in all versions of Delphi.