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?
In this video we take a look at the Microsoft Speech API, in particular the text to speech facilities. And we create a small application that can speak some text in a memo control. This video is a bit over 7 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this movie we take a look at what happens when constructors and destructors raise exceptions, in particular how to arrange you try..finally blocks to best effect. This movie is over 16 minutes long and you can watch it here.
In this movie we take a look at what Class Helpers are. There is still a bit of debate as to whether class helpers are good or evil - I think this is because people are using them beyond what they were intended for - which is exactly what we do in this video which you can watch here.
In this Delphi programming tutorial we are going to cover how to put Adobe Flash animations into your Delphi applications. We do this by creating a new package and then installing the ShockwaveFlash ActiveX control. Watch the movie here. The movie is under 8 minutes long.
This Delphi Training Movie looks at DLL programming, at least the basics. In it we write a DLL and then use it. The example is a bit contrived, but should give you a solid starting point. This one is a biggie and weighs in at over 20 minutes, and you can watch it here.
In this Delphi training movie we take a look at how to create forms, yes I know Delphi can do this for you automatically - but sometimes you will want to do it for yourself. Creating forms as they are needed can make your application start faster and take up less resources. We look at a number of ways of creating forms and to see them watch the movie here.
I've seen this question numerous times in the Delphi Newsgroups: How to I make the enter key work like the tab key? Well it's actually fairly simple and in this movie I show you three ways of doing it (and there are probably many more). This movie runs to just over 8 minutes and you can Watch it Here.
In this Delphi tutorial we are going to look at how to take advantage of the OnDrawColumnCell event on the TDBGrid component. In particular we are going to examine how to make every second row a different colour (Sky Blue) and how we can change the appearance of the text depending on the data. This video is just under 10 minutes and you can watch it here
PS. Sky Blue is not compulsory (and perhaps not even recommended)
In this movie we look at pasting images from the clipboard that were generated in Word and The GiMP. We also take our first look at making macros in the Delphi IDE. My voice still hasn't fully recovered from having the flu, but I hope the content of this video makes my voice worth listening to. This movie is almost 11 minutes long and you can watch it here.
This is the fourth part in our series on SQL. In this guide we cover the SQL Insert statement. This movie is less than 3 minutes long. Watch it here. And yes, I still had the flu while recording this one.