Mastering Kylix 2 [Paperback]

Marco Cantù (Author), Uberto Barbini (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mastering | Publication Date: May 1, 2002

Kylix is Borland's new tool for developing desktop, database, and Web applications that run on the Linux operating system. It is based on their popular Delphi developing tool for Windows and allows programmers to build graphical user interfaces for Linux applications. Cuurently, Kylix is the only rapid application development (RAD) tool for Linux; up to now Linux developers have had to do difficult C/C++ Unix-style programming. The power of Kylix is that it makes it extremely easy to port Windows applications to Linux, allowing for cross-platform development. Kylix runs on the leading Linux distributions, including RedHat, SUSE and Mandrake, and is compatible with the KDE and GNOME desktop environments. This book covers version 2, which added XML/SOAP functionality.

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From the Back Cover

Master the RAD Tool Designed Especially for Linux Development

Kylix 2 promises great things for the world of Linux application development. Mastering Kylix 2 is the best possible way for you to take advantage of everything this powerful RAD tool has to offer. Co-written by internationally acclaimed Delphi expert Marco Cantù, this book provides authoritative, tutorial-style instruction along with tips and tricks available nowhere else. Begin with Kylix basics and advance confidently, developing the skills needed to use Kylix to meet real challenges-from sockets programming to XML processing to web services development.

Coverage includes:
Getting acquainted with the Kylix IDE
Using Kylix's object-oriented facilities
Implementing Linux file management
Working with the BaseCLX library
Developing GUIs
Using advanced components and controls
Creating forms
Building graphics features
Writing Kylix components
Using the ClientDataSet component and MyBase
Handling interprocess communication
Creating web programs with WebBroker and WebSnap
Processing XML
Developing SOAP-based web services

Featured on the CD
On the CD, you get complete and ready-to-use source code for the hundreds of examples presented in the book. You also get an electronic copy of Essential Pascal, Marco Cantù's acclaimed introduction to the Pascal programming language, written from a Kylix perspective. Finally, you get the open source version of Kylix, FreeCLX, Interbase 6 Open Source Edition, and the Indy open-source web component suite.

About the Author

Marco Cantù is the author of six editions of the best-selling Mastering Delphi 6. Beside writing and speaking at conferences, he teaches technical classes on both Delphi and XML technologies. Marco lives in Italy. Uberto Barbini is a teacher and consultant for the Italian university Politecnico di Milano. He has published a book on Delphi in Italy and is the developer of the open source program Fractal Forge.

Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782128734
• ISBN-13: 978-0782128734
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,113,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marco Cantu' is the author of the best-selling series Mastering Delphi, plus other books on Delphi and C++. He recently authored self-published books on Delphi 2007, 2009 and 2010.
His areas of expertise include OOP, Delphi, Object-Oriented Architectures, and a number of XML lingos (particularly XSLT). Marco gives frequent training classes and has spoken at dozen of conferences in the US and Europe.
Marco lives in Italy with Lella and their two kids, Benedetta and Jacopo.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for tipical programmer, May 31, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Kylix 2 (Paperback)

Maybe Cantu's books are not the top level in technical details but they are the easier to read and understand.
There are no easy tricks to inflate page number here.
The examples are often useful but in the book you can find only code that matter, while in the companion cd you can find not only all the code but also the binaries.
All the chapters are in topic and there are no help duplicates (if you know what I mean).
There is a good coverage of Linux stuff like Xwindow, Qt primitives, RPC and an example about commanding Kde with Xml.
Databases are covered pretty well, expecially Interbase, and so the other "Delphi" parts.
In my opinion the only real lack is a chapter about MySql usage.

3.0 out of 5 stars Again...!, May 5, 2004

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Chris (Richmond East, Vic Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Kylix 2 (Paperback)

Marco continues to provide a good, basic, pretty well rounded coverage of Delphi/Kylix development. But as with most of his books this book is sparse on detail and skirts around a lot of real world development topics.

For the beginner it is probably better to buy marco's "Mastering Delphi <insert version>" as this book does not add much that is Kylix specific.