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Delphi 4 Bible
- Explore Delphi's environment, visual components, and forms
- Create sleek user interfaces by using toolbars, coolbars, and scroll panels
- Develop applications with the Windows clipboard, OLE, and DDE
- Master the techniques of Object Pascal string-handling, lists, file streams, and exceptions
- Generate application charts and reports with QuickReport and TeeChart component libraries
- Construct custom components and ActiveX controls
- Add the finishing touches to your applicationdebug, produce online help, and create dynamic link libraries
- ISBN-100764532375
- ISBN-13978-0764532375
- PublisherWiley
- Publication dateAugust 5, 1998
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.58 x 1.9 x 9.22 inches
- Print length953 pages
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Early chapters concentrate on familiarizing the reader with the key features of the Delphi environment and the basics of using the Delphi Visual Component Library (VCL) effectively in simple programs. The author pays much attention to user-interface design with components such as menus, buttons, checkboxes, toolbars, and list controls. Further sections cover graphics programming, printing, and database applications. The authors also look at Delphi's charting and reporting capabilities, a necessity for any real-world corporate development.
The book includes more expert material on Pascal language features, such as exception handling, default parameters, method overloading, and dynamic arrays, plus some Windows internals such as advanced message handling. Additional sections explain how to build custom ActiveX controls and dynamic link-libraries (DLLs) and offer a quick tour of Internet component programming in Delphi. --Richard Dragan
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- Publisher : Wiley
- Publication date : August 5, 1998
- Language : English
- Print length : 953 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0764532375
- ISBN-13 : 978-0764532375
- Item Weight : 3.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.58 x 1.9 x 9.22 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,336,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #62 in Borland Delphi Programming
- #499 in Client-Server Networking Systems
- #2,277 in Computer Graphics
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 1999Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseYou learn programming by doing it and Tom Swan's very good text is full of little programs that you can expand upon. Chapters of the first and second parts are nearly independent so you can jump around if you need expertise in a particular area. The second half of the book covers some advanced topics. You do need to already know the Pascal language, however, because the treatment is sparse and incidental to other topics. The expert user tips at the ends of chapters contain some real gems. All in all an excellent intermediate text with a few tips for experts as well. Don't confuse this book with the Delphi Super Bible a totally different book.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2001Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseI am a Java programmer and have longed for the oportunity to create GUI applications. This is a fantastic alternative to BOTH Java and C++. This language will allow you the power and the ease of use to create anything you want. This book will guide you to it. It gives you everything you need to write programs period. When finished with the second chapter I was already creating useful things. A word of advice...judge not the actual programs that you are creating, but the invaluable tools that you are learning. Buy this book and keep it always for a quick reference
- Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2011Format: PaperbackI have quite a number of Delphi reference books - this is the one that I keep coming back to. It is a great book with the topics well laid out and suitable examples for most of the topics given. I enjoy reading it generally and using it as a reference when needed (which has been quite often but is getting a bit less now). I have Delphi XE but keep going back to this book for the basics of Delphi when I need to.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 1999Format: PaperbackThis book was a greatly dissapointing. If you're an expert at Delphi this book is not for you. If you're just starting out than you may find this book helpful. The manuals that come with Delphi provide more in depth information than this.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 1999Format: PaperbackI have examined very closely various books on delphi including Mastering Delphi by Cantu, Delphi developers handbook by texeira but nothing can come close to Tom Swans book.
If you have never programmed in Delphi before, take my words and buy this book. You will not regret. However, if you are very well versed in Delphi than just get a subscription to Delphi magazine. The other books in my opinion are simply rehash of the delphi guides that accompany the software and you will hardly learn anything new. In fact you may end getting more confused.
Being a brilliant programmer does not automatically mean that you can write a book!. Tom Swan has the art to convey the message.
In summary, it is a well thought, cut and presented book on Delphi.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2002Format: PaperbackIf you are new to Delphi (like I am) and you need to get familiar with the Delphi environment, tools, and objects this book is for you. It is well written and provides code examples for everything. This is not a book on how to program in Pascal, but a book on the Delphi tools. The examples are applicable to more complex applications. Even if you are an advanced programmer this book will be a great reference.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 1999Format: PaperbackI had a lot of fun reading this book, If English is not your first language and you like to read about delphi 4 than this book is great, it is made for a "begining" programer and will (was for me) show you a lot of nice trick's and tips. This book can be a good one for people who get those big books but never read them becouse they get lost in the text. Tom Swan made his point's real clear and you will be able to use it in real life when you write your own applications. I'm hoping for an advanced delphi book writen by hime, that woeld be real fun.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2001Format: PaperbackIf you are a patient and systematic beginner in Delphi programming this book is suitable for you. If you are a skilled programmer and try to look for some special topic this book also is great for you. It looks a like that Tom Swan personally seated with you in front of your PC and telling you what to do with your program source, talking about a lot of hints and jokes and even when to stop for coffee break or lunch. Simply it is great.