Tom Swan is the internationally acclaimed author of over 30 computer books, including IDG Books Worldwide's bestselling Type & Learn(R) C. He is a former contributing editor to PC Techniques and columnist for PC World and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
This manual offers everything needed to create Windows applications with the rapid application development tool, Delphi 3. It contains advice on programming with visual components, forms, properties and events. With guidelines for creating sleek user interfaces with Delphi's Visual Component Library of menus, buttons, toolbars, status panels, multi-page dialogue boxes and text controls, it presents coverage of application development for relational database systems, graphics, communications and a variety of other uses. By studying the applications on the book's CD-ROM, programmers can observe how Delphi is used to create commercial quality Windows' applications.
Offers a graded tutorial for beginning PASCAL programmers using versions 5.5 and 6.0 of Turbo PASCAL; also caters for intermediate users, offering information on the facilities of the two recent versions (new object-oriented extensions, overlay modules and the built-in Debugger).