News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
Directing DirectX Part 1: Getting To Know DirectX
Erik van Bilsen begins a new occasional series of articles on programming
for DirectX with an introduction, paying special attention to debugging
and exception handling, and to differences between DirectX versions. In
later articles Erik will focus on the various DirectX subsystems to develop
a simple yet complete game.
Beating The System: More On The ‘Closed Tools API’
Dave Jewell investigates further into his nefarious backdoor mechanisms
for manipulating the Delphi IDE, including the Component Palette and getting
information about installed components.
Writing Robust Code
Pedro Agulló Soliveres knows there are many subtle issues to be aware of
when it comes to ensuring code correctness and robustness: in this article
he examines some of these issues, with a special emphasis on contract-based
programming.
Under Construction: Distributed Apps On The Cheap
Bob Swart thinks it’s unfair that developers should have to use the expensive
Enterprise editions of Delphi to build distributed applications, so in this
article he examines how to use the RemObjects SDK to build multi-tier applications
in Delphi 7 Professional.
Delfhead At Large
Will Watts with Quake and Withers.
Synchronisation Toolkit Revisited
Primoz Gabrijelcic is back with his favourite theme: interprocess synchronisation
and communication. He describes some problems he came across with creating
mutexes when using Windows NT’s security model and how he overcame them:
if you want a crash course in NT security, and hunger to know all about
SIDs and DACLs, here is where to begin!
Algorithms Alfresco: A Closer Look
Julian Bucknall wraps up his brief examination of user interface and usability
issues by looking at how to translate Windows design and usability ideas
over to applications which run on the Palm platform: all may not be quite
so straightforward as you might imagine!
Review: Raize Components 3.0.2
Dave Jewell checks out the latest version of Ray Konopka’s flagship component
suite to see what’s new, what’s updated, and how the suite hangs together.
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including
application relative path issues, overriding methods when creating new
components, what FreeAndNil is all about, creating Paradox Graphic fields
in SQL, using and storing custom colours, colour conversion, and the difference
between RGB and HLS specifications.