Delphi 4 Bible [Paperback]

Tom Swan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764532375 | ISBN-13: 978-0764532375 | Publication Date: August 5, 1998

Write Dynamic Programs with Delphi Create a wide variety of powerful applications for Windows 95, 98, and NT platforms! Providing step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and over 100 sample applications, international bestselling author Tom Swan shows you how to take full advantage of Delphi 4's capabilities to develop software in different categories, including graphics, animation, database management, the Internet, and more. You Can Do It with Delphi 4

• 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 application—debug, produce online help, and create dynamic link libraries

CD-ROM features source code from over 100 sample applications in the book! www.idgbooks.com System Requirements: Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you appreciate hands-on examples in your programming books, consider this guide. Delphi 4 Bible combines a solid tour of basic Delphi programming with excellent material on more advanced language features available in Delphi 4. This text stresses traditional client/server programming using Delphi's classic strengths for corporate database development.

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

About the Author

About the Author Tom Swan is the internationally acclaimed author of over 30 computer books, including IDG Books Worldwide's bestselling Type & Learn^® C. He is a former contributing editor to PC Techniques and columnist for PC World and Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 953 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (August 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764532375
• ISBN-13: 978-0764532375
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,490,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Delphi Book ever published!, October 11, 1999

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Hussein Dharsi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Delphi 4 Bible (Paperback)

I 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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Beginners Book to Both Delphi and the Borland IDE, March 12, 2001

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Justin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Delphi 4 Bible (Paperback)

I 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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Delphi text if you already know Pascal, February 11, 1999

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Richard Hughes (Camarillo, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delphi 4 Bible (Paperback)

You 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.