This book will make you a faster Delphi developer, it doesn't matter if you are just starting out, or have been using Delphi since version 1, you will find all sorts of tips, tricks and hacks to boost your productivity.
Make your Delphi code better by reading this book! You will find numerous tips, tricks, techniques and tools to enhance and improve code. How does your code stack up? Are you writing code that will be usable for years, or are you heading towards a dystopian maintenance apocalypse?
Delphi controls have both an owner and a parent, what's the difference? Find out in Owner vs. Parent. This movie is 7 minutes long.
In this movie you'll see an example of using the Autosize property on a form. We'll use it to automatically adjust the size of a form in response to changes in it's controls. Watch the movie here. This film is nice and short at 6 minutes.
Sometimes the Anchors and Align properties just don't cut the mustard for aranging controls on panels and forms in response to resizing. This is not a problem as there is the OnResize event. You can use this event for many reasons, but in this movie we want to adjust the size of controls. This movie is about 7 minutes long and you can watch it here.
This movie is about 8 minutes long and covers the Anchors and Constraints properties of VCL controls in Delphi. These properties are used to control how things behave on your forms when you resize them. This follows nicely on from Alignment and Margins. Watch the movie here
This movie covers two vcl properites in Delphi: Align and Margins. Using these you can control how your forms behave when resized. You can watch the movie here.
In this movie we continue to look at features of SQL, in particular numeric functions and the group by clause. I have also uploaded this movie to youtube. Again I've used a huge font so that it is still readable at 320x240.
In this guide you'll get an introduction to basic SELECT queries. I've used a really large font for the application, I've done this so that I could put the video on YouTube and have people still able to read the SQL statements and results, which you can watch here. I had to speed up the YouTube video to fit it under the 10 minute limit (it's 6% faster).
Here we use VMWare to install FreeDOS onto a virtual machine and install and run Turbo Pascal 5.5 (for those of us who can remember back that far). Click Here to view the movie
In this movie we continue with our customer application. Here we actually write some code to add three features