Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 90, February 2003



		Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 90, February 2003 News Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development. Windows NT Privileges Marcel van Brakel describes how to discover and set Windows NT privileges from your applications, so you can make better use of Windows' built-in security capabilities. Under Construction: MySQL Data Access Libraries Bob Swart evaluates various third-party libraries you can use to get at your MySQL databases from Delphi apps: ZEOS Library, DirectMySQL and TmySQL (all are freeware or GPL), plus Core Lab MyDAC for Windows and finally the microOLAP MySQLDAC components (commercial products). Which cut the mustard? Read on to discover more. Speech Support In Delphi Applications: Part 2 Brian Long continues to examine text to speech options and shows what can be done with some of the available events offered by the SAPI 5.1 Automation components. Algorithms Alfresco: Zoolook Julian Bucknall continues his mini-series on user interface and usability issues. This month he discusses how to make an interface consistent and some tricks and principles you can use in the quest for an improved interface design. Beating The System: More On The 'Closed Tools API' Dave Jewell returns to his anarchic delvings into methods of tweaking the Delphi IDE that Borland didn't want to tell us about. OOP: Persist And Reap The Rewards Rob Bracken has been experimenting with the TechInsite Object Persistence Framework by Peter Hinrichsen: a neat approach to automatically saving and loading Delphi objects to/from a database. Rob talks us through what to do, step by step. A Wrapper Class For Dynamic DLL Calls Dave Jewell shares some useful code which helps you to gracefully handle a situation where a DLL called by your application is not present. Interview: Mike Lischke Draws A Picture Will Watts interviews the developer of the Virtual Treeview component. One Last Compile... The end of the beginning. BizTalk Server And Delphi Malcolm Groves introduces us to the world of Integration Servers and explains how Microsoft’s BizTalk Server fits in, before moving on to show how we can extend BizTalk Server’s functionality using Delphi. Review: MtxVec Version 1.5 Dave Jewell checks out this number crunching library from Dew Research. The Delphi Clinic Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.

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