Collaborative Computing with Delphi 3

Table of contents

Ballyhooing Before Beginning
Part I Demandment One: Sell Savvy Strategies
Chapter 1 Fretting Friendly Futures
Doom and Gloom
Mission Possible
Tackling the Tao
Frivolous Future Fears
Nature's Natural Order
Nature Never Naffs
Nature's Strategy
Ordering Chaos
Evolutionary Economics
Odoriferously Organic
Organizing Organically
Familiarity Breeds
Receptive Recall
Economic Efficiencies
Profitable
Cost Declining
Investment Recovery
Incremental Improvements
Gradual Improvement
Resource Effectiveness
Industrial Leverage
Mother Meets the Money Man
To Do the Things You Do
Foreseeing the Future
Chapter 2 Considering Collaborative Computing
Ecological Efficiencies
Flipping the Flops
Ecosystem Engineering
Salvaging Sand
The Ants that Ate Antwerp
Chemical Conduits
Amazing Ants
MIT's Miniatures
Silicone of a Different Sort
Contemporary Collaborative Culture
Advancing Any-Ware
Moving Multiple Medias
Inciting Interindependence
Cleaving Clever Clients
Spiffy Server Specialists
Announcing Assimilation
Borg-Based
She's a Killer Queen
Interchange-Ability
Processing Past Parallel
Collective Consciousness
Prepare to Engage
Client-Server Computing
Client-Servers or Server-Clients
Fancy Flavors
Compounding the Confusion
Collaborative Computing
Charting the Chapter
Chapter 3 Observing Objective Obsession
Enter Objects
Beautifully Behaved
Perfectly Proper
Singularly Stated
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Clone Clowining Circular
Delightful Differentiation
Confusing Clouds Converge
Proud Pretty Painters
Voluptuous Vocabularies
Clever Cocktail Chit-Chat
Terrific Tools Too
Captivating Card Chicanery
Capturing Classes
Roles and Responsibilities
Collaborations
Management Model
Architecture
CASE Cometh
Object-Oriented Development Environments
SmallTalk, Eiffel, C++
Platforms and Operating Systems
Enter Events
Window Wrapping
Providing the Point
Chapter 4 Debuting Delphi
Client-Server Greek Style
Rapid Application Development
Visual Programming
Prototype to Production
Integrated Development Environment
Syntactic Editors
Quick Compiling
Debugging
Compiled Object-Oriented Language
Strongly Weak
Lately Early
Extensible Toolset
Experts
Templates
Add-On Tools
Promotes Component-Based Development
Visual Component Library
Open Vendor-Supplied Reuse
Object Repository
Portable Object Persistence
Database Independence
Out-of-Box Scaling
Middleware Standards Support
Hi-Ho Hi-Ho
Chapter 5 On the Way to the Forum
Planning Projects
Adding Standard Controls
Side Splitting Fun
Forums From Far Away
Intraproject Inheritance
Dual Drag Dropping
Senders and Sources
Masochistic Manual Mode
The Ah of Autodrive
Reusing Events
Honor Your Parents
Sending Messages
Making Methods Formal
Interproject Inheritance
Perfect Picking
Overheard at the Forum
Installing Custom Components
Building Custom Packages
Finding Forum News
Relative Time
Watch the Window Wreaking
Future Thoughts
Problems With Family Reunions
Where We Were
Chapter 6 Asking the All Knowing
Defining Your Objects
Pondering Paradoxes
Objective Entities
Classic Tables
Layering the Access Model
Also Known as Alias
Creating Tables
Building Secondary Indexes
Adding Data
Defining Queries
Data Sets and Data Fields
Integrating Partials
More Form Methods
Object Iterators
Create Shared Globals
Painting with Data
Appending Records
Manual Masters and Details
Dynamic Datasets
Browser Building Basics
Data-Aware Components
Incremental Search Engines
Liking Your Data
Parameterizing Your Queries
Column Cosmetics
Catching Keystrokes
Filtering Your Data
Arming the Arsenal
Chapter 7 Making Delphi Sing
Messing with Multimedia
Setting up for Sound
Resurrecting Record
Waves of Silence
Five Seconds of Fame
Enter the Dictator
Taking Dictation
Registering Environmental Dependencies
Build or Buy
Structured Text INIs
Restricted Access Registry
Robbing the Registry
Building the Forum Registry
Analyzing User Actions
The Need for Privacy
Prototyping Privacy
The Need for Speed
Problems with the Draggin
Some Modality Is OK
Feature Interaction Problems
Enforcing Critical Regions
Hierarchical Structures
Outline Views
Tree Views
Working with Image Lists
Prototyping Trees
Additional Indices
Maintaining Node States
Stepping Back from RAD
Chapter 8 Fabricating Firm Foundations
Forming Frameworks
Forum Foundations
Nodal Notions
Abstracting Adornments
Develop Responsible Dynamics
Sketching Structure
Controlling Collaborators
Making Molds
Masking Class Methods
Classical Constructors and Destructors
Delegating to Descendents
Discovering Data Awareness
Cruddy Classes
Exploring Edge Transitions
Ferreting Forum Nodes
Vicariously Visual
Triangulating Teamwork
Chapter 9 Tying Trees Together
Bridging the View
Tree Traveling Tactics
Franchising Fertile Foliage
Causing Cartage Correlations
Trying Toolbars
Duplexing Drag and Drop
Gluing Graphic Glyphs
Nipping New Natterings
Burrowing Basic Browsers
Mulling Multimedia Methods
Getting the Glyphs
Latching the Links
Deciding to Dim
Luring Launch Logins
Tapping Topic Techniques
Edifying Edison's Effect
Ravishing RADs
Tarting Toggled Typography
Subsetting Speed Buttons
Peppering Persistent Polish
Stowing Ships Safely
Chapter 10 Flopping at the Forum
Wow, What a Whew
Reviewing Recall and Recollections
Nitpicking Nirvana's Nisus
Acknowledging Achievement
Defining Demandment One
Part II Demandment Two: Profess Perspicacious Preparedness
Chapter 11 Flailing Failing Falls
Weaning Water Waifs
Fabling Frigid Frocks
Molding Modern Medleys
Spinning Stout Spirals
Skiving Snug Spirals
Deserting Dry Destinies
Chapter 12 Extolling Environmental Executives
Unbinding Underplayed Units
Realizing Real Reuse
Scavenging Scintillating Standards
Valeting Vast Variations
Caging Cosmetic Collaborators
Cameoing Combined Collaborators
Cannibalizing Command Collaborators
Ganging Gallant Galleries
Rummaging Revised Repositories
Covering Copies
Inspiring Inheritance
Utilizing Used
Explicating Environmental Extensions
Wriggling Whizzing Workshops
Chapter 13 Scrounging Super Sufficiencies
Nattering Not-Narrowing Needs
Asking and Answering
Salaaming Suitable Surveys
Rousting Response Ranges
Mustering Multifarious Meanings
Busticating Burgeoning Bias
Wielding Worthwhile Words
Inverting Ireful Intent
Nixing Niggle Notes
Attending Answers Actively
Minding Model Maps
Twigging Two Talents
Chapter 14 Symboling Syncretic Structures
Nearing Noetic Nominalism
Ascribing Appropriate Analogues
Realigning Rational Relations
Hefting Historical Habits