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Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 98, October 2003

  • News
    Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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  • NTFS Compression And Sparse Files
    Marcel van Brakel explains what the NTFS file compression and sparse files features have to offer and how to make use of them programmatically in your own software.
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  • Getting The Most Out Of IIS 6.0
    Jani Järvinen continues his detailed exploration of the new goodies to be found in Windows Server 2003. This time he delves into Internet Information Server 6.0, describing its new, more powerful architecture, as well as  explaining the new features for web application usage and detailing how to take advantage of them in your own applications.
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  • Under Construction: dbExpress And QualityCentral
    Bob Swart uses the normalised data model developed over the last few issues and implements it using dbExpress to talk to InterBase. Along the way a number of problems arise and Borland’s QualityCentral resource proves useful in solving these to get a working end result.
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  • Layout Managers Revisited
    Rick Spence returns to the subject of layout managers with some updated ideas and improved designs. Follow Rick as he implements a system of classes to manage the display of, and navigation between, forms in applications, with the application’s controlling form using the services of a layout manager rather than directly managing the forms itself.
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  • Directing DirectX Part 6: In Control
    Erik van Bilsen brings us the final part of his series on DirectX programming. This time he describes the DirectInput architecture, used to handle user input from a variety of devices, like keyboards, mice, joysticks, game pads, steering wheels, virtual reality gloves, or any other exotic devices a user might have.
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  • Moving To Delphi For .NET Today!
    Bob Swart shows how to modify your Delphi projects to get them working with the Delphi for .NET preview compiler and so be ready for the full-blown Delphi for .NET when it arrives.
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  • Delfhead Puzzles It Out
    Will Watts lets off steam...
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  • Review: LMD SearchPack 2.01 For Delphi
    Craig Murphy checks out a ready-made pack of text searching components and routines from LMD Innovative: could this ‘POS on steroids’ product be the answer to your searching needs?
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  • The Delphi Clinic
    Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: threads and application termination, working round string grid limitations, using RTTI, and piping XML direct to the web browser component.
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