Mastering Delphi 7 - page 1
- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Mastering Delphi 7
- Introduction
- The Structure of the Book
- Free Source Code on the Web
- How to Reach the Author
- Part I: Foundations
- Chapter 1: Delphi 7 and Its IDE
- Editions of Delphi
- An Overview of the IDE
- The Delphi Editor
- The Form Designer
- Secrets of the Component Palette
- Managing Projects
- Additional and External Delphi Tools
- The Files Produced by the System
- The Object Repository
- Debugger Updates in Delphi 7
- What s Next?
- Chapter 2: The Delphi Programming Language
- Core Language Features
- Classes and Objects
- Encapsulation
- Constructors
- Delphi s Object Reference Model
- Inheriting from Existing Types
- Late Binding and Polymorphism
- Type-Safe Down-Casting
- Using Interfaces
- Working with Exceptions
- Logging Errors
- Class References
- What s Next?
- Chapter 3: The Run-Time Library
- The Units of the RTL
- Converting Data
- What About Currency Conversions?
- Managing Files with SysUtils
- The TObject Class
- What s Next?
- Chapter 4: Core Library Classes
- The RTL Package, VCL, and CLX
- The TPersistent Class
- The TComponent Class
- Lists and Container Classes
- Streaming
- Summarizing the Core VCL and BaseCLX Units
- What s Next?
- Chapter 5: Visual Controls
- VCL versus VisualCLX
- TControl and Derived Classes
- Opening the Component Toolbox
- Control-Related Techniques
- ListView and TreeView Controls
- What s Next?
- Chapter 6: Building the User Interface
- Multiple-Page Forms
- The ToolBar Control
- Themes and Styles
- The ActionList Component
- Toolbar Containers
- The ActionManager Architecture
- What s Next?
- Chapter 7: Working with Forms
- The TForm Class
- Direct Form Input
- Painting on Forms
- Unusual Techniques: Alpha Blending, Color Key,and the Animate API
- Position, Size, Scrolling, and Scaling
- Creating and Closing Forms
- Dialog Boxes and Other Secondary Forms
- Creating a Dialog Box
- Predefined Dialog Boxes
- About Boxes and Splash Screens
- What s Next?
- Part II: Delphi Object-Oriented Architectures
- Chapter 8: The Architecture of Delphi Applications
- The Application Object
