Contents
Issue 50, October 1999

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new.

• What’s On Your Free Bonus CD-ROM
  Lots of extra goodies this month!

• Data-Aware HTML Controls, 1
  Steve Troxell has developed a really neat way to generate web pages with content driven from databases, using markup codes in HTML pages, so website designers with no programming or database skills can easily create database-driven websites.

• Under Construction: Delphi 5 InternetExpress
  Bob Swart describes Delphi 5’s InternetExpress, which combines WebBroker and MIDAS technologies, producing HTML and XML for ultra-thin clients. And as it's Dr.Bob, you can be sure he explains it step by step.

• Delphi Junction
  A crossword puzzle from David Baer.

• Localising With Delphi 5
  Marco Cantù unravels the localisation capability in Delphi 5 and explains how we can make the most use of it.

• Beating the System: Delphi Code Generation Hints
  Dave Jewell provides insights into how Delphi generates its code, with handy pointers on FOR loops, optimisation tips and syntactic short cuts.

• Win32 Inter-Process Communication
  Brian Long gives us a thorough tutorial on getting applications to talk to each other and exchange data, even over a network. Brian explains all those fiddly API calls, with easy-to-use code.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Red Alert
  Julian Bucknall explains red-black binary trees: what they are, how to use them and what benefits they give.

• XML: A Delphi Implementation, 2
  David Baer continues his series on using XML in Delphi (continuing from the August issue). As promised, this time David shows how to hook up his XML classes to an XML parser.

• One Last Compile...
  An artist and his palette.

• Exceptional Stack Tracing
  Hallvard Vassbotn shows how to find what bug in your code causes those pesky exceptions: yes, even access violations. Why be content with an error address which refers to code buried deep in the VCL or RTL when you can get straight to the offending line!

• COM Corner: New COM Features In Delphi 5
  Steve Teixeira has all the information.

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: property editors, customised aliases, Delphi 5 COM Server components, custom font dialogs, using Delphi in a multi-user environment, transferring components over the clipboard, user defined exceptions, Active OLE objects and even Delphi 5’s new Easter Eggs!