Contents
Issue 42, February 1999

• News
  More updates from the world of Delphi development.

• OpenGL: Under The Hood
  John Hutchings shows how to create 3D graphics applications that will just blaze along, with a handy set of components to encapsulate the OpenGL API and shield us from all the gory details!

• Implementing Active Server Pages
  Microsoft’s ASP technology is becoming more and more widely used, but Delphi does not currently include ASP DLLs in the list of web application types it can generate. Eyal Hirsch demonstrates how we can plug the gap for ourselves.

• One Last Compile...
  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Coder.

• Update: Diagramming In Delphi, Part 2
  Jim Cooper fixes a glitch in the second instalment of his diagramming article, from the January 1999 issue.

• Beating the System: Animated Icons And Cursors, 2
  In this second part of his investigation of  ANI files, Dave Jewell presents components to display an animation on a form and to use an animated icon in the Windows tray icon area.

• Paradox File Corruption
  It seems that corruption of Paradox table and index files is still rife, but Brian Long has been searching high and low for the information you need to avoid such problems. He’s also created a handy utility which will investigate the various relevant system settings on a machine and alert you to any issues.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Back On The Chain Gang
  Julian Bucknall opens the can on linked lists. So you think you know all about these ubiquitous data structures? Well think again, as Julian has some neat tricks up his sleeve to make life easier and your applications faster!

• Under Construction: Usenet News Reading, 2
  Bob Swart continues his work with the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), showing how to write code that posts messages to Usenet newsgroups.

• COM Corner: ActiveX Documents, Part 1
  Another first for The Delphi Magazine! Steve Teixeira has unravelled the techniques you need to create ActiveX document servers in Delphi.

• Disk Bonus: Create HTML Reports With WebReport
  Included on this month’s companion disk is a trial version of this new component set from Homegrown Software of Canada.

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: using SQL, disabling Delphi 4’s docking, problems with Delphi and certain video cards, plus making the most of various IDE tricks and features in Delphi 4.