The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core Api [Paperback]

Larry Diehl (Author), Kenneth Harrison (Author), Rod Mathes (Author), Ovais Reza (Author), Mike Tobin (Author), John Ayres (Author), David Bowden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

The authors provide software developers a comprehensive guide to the Microsoft Windows application programming interface, the heart of Windows software development. This reference covers all of the most common Windows API functions, and each function has the syntax and an example of its use in Delphi's Object Pascal. The CD includes all of the code from the book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 788 pages
• Publisher: Wordware (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556225563
• ISBN-13: 978-1556225567
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,451,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Borland Delphi

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you have MSDN you don't need this book, June 18, 2000

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Timothy Collins (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core Api (Paperback)

The examples shown in this book are of little more value than those found in MSDN. They're simplistic, strawman examples that you don't need a book to figure out. Moreover, the coverage of the API is incomplete. The Shell interface, for example, should be covered in depth -- it isn't. Worse yet, the writing is very bad. I've never read such boring, lackluster prose. The authors show no noteworthy ability for making difficult concepts easy to grasp -- a must for the able technical writer. I recommend that you get Delphi Unleashed instead.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new or innovative here, June 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core Api (Paperback)

I bought this after seeing several newbie recommendations for it. What a waste of money! This is nothing but a dead trees version of the Win32 API help with some banal examples thrown in for good measure. It's an embarrassing hack of a book. If you want to actually *master* the core API, get Delphi Unleashed or Delphi Developer's Guide and study MSDN extensively.

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Redundant Work, December 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core Api (Paperback)

After checking out the book for couple hours in the Book store. I realized why some one would want to create a simple Window by writing extensive API code, which takes about 15 lines, when you can do it in delphi by visually creating it (Chapter 1). I was hoping they would cover Windows Messages as opposed to APIs which Borland takes care of them with their wrappers. I personally I find this book neither helpful nor informative at all.