Contents
Issue 56, April 2000

• News
  Keep up with all that’s new.

• Visual Form Inheritance And Frames: Friend or Foe?
  Guy Smith-Ferrier discusses the relative merits of visual form inheritance and frames, explaining how they work, their good and bad points, and recommending how we should use these facilities.

• Beating the System: Wrapping The RAS Services API, Part 2
  Dave Jewell enhances his wrapper for Windows’ RAS services, with extra goodies for phonebook manipulation and more.

• Splat: Part 2, Going International
  Ray Lischner continues his useful demonstration of using Delphi’s sound and graphics facilities. This month he internationalises the sample application and shows how to compress sound resources to reduce the .EXE’s footprint.

• Algorithms Alfresco: Hyperactive
  Julian Bucknall has more multithreading insights, this time covering producers and consumers, with easy to follow examples to explain it all.

• One Last Compile...
  The name’s Delphi. Borland Delphi.

• Under Construction: CORBA Exceptions In Delphi
  Bob Swart explains how to handle CORBA-specific exceptions in Delphi using VisiBroker.

• Dragging And Dropping Part 1: VCL
  Brian Long begins a thorough discussion of how drag and drop works by running through the VCL’s built-in support, with some clever enhancement ideas too.

• COM Corner: COM+ Security
  Steve Teixeira explains the security features in COM+ and how to put them to use in your own applications.

• The Delphi Clinic
  Brian Long with more answers to your queries, including: automatic scroll bars for a TMemo, using MIDAS’ delta packets to get information on modifications, inserts and deletes, how to draw images on status bars, extracting application icons, connecting to a COM object in the running object table, object assignments and object property assignments.