News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
Speech Support In Delphi Applications: Part 1
Brian Long describes how to add speech generation features to your applications
using Microsoft’s SAPI calls.
Algorithms Alfresco: Good King Wenceslas
Julian Bucknall’s holiday in France was rudely disturbed by a rather corpulent
bearded gentleman in a red and white striped t-shirt carrying a string
of onions, and a whippet. Want to know how this strange turn of events
can be to your benefit (and how you can fix up stable marriages for all
your friends along the way)? Read on...
Building An MPEG Video Decoder: Part 6
Erik van Bilsen is nearly at the end of his in-depth exploration of video
decoding. This month he shows how motion compensation is used to retain
quality but dramatically reduce the storage requirement for MPEG movies.
One Last Compile...
The Road Warrior.
Under Construction: Delphi, dbExpress And MySQL
The BDE has had its day, but some of the alternatives seem very costly
(SQL Server at £1,612 for a 10-client version of the standard product,
anyone?). So Bob Swart has been checking out MySQL to see how easy it is
to use with Delphi. Oh, and it’s either free or very cheap, depending on
the licence you choose!
Beating The System: Getting To Grips With .NET Preview, 2
Dave Jewell shows how to use the Delphi For .NET Preview compiler included
in Delphi 7 to create .NET components that can be used in Visual Studio
.NET.
My Data Is Your Data
Primoz Gabrijelcic explains the ins and outs of using shared memory to allow
multiple applications to access the same data, and presents a nifty Delphi
wrapper around all those nasty Windows API calls.
Layout Managers
Rick Spence describes how he uses layout managers to cleverly manage the
look and feel of his applications.
Review: Our Festive Guide To Delphi Freeware
To keep in the Christmas spirit, Dave Jewell checks out a selection of
totally free goodies to gladden the hearts and wallets of Delphi developers
everywhere, including Mike Lischke’s Delphi Gems, FlatStyle from Maik Porkert
and DIB Controls from Peter Morris. Who said we don’t ever give you something
for nothing!
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including
running the Delphi For .NET Preview in the Delphi IDE, command- line parameters,
using CreateProcess, various COM issues and stateless DataSnap applications.