D E L P H I 3 0 0 0 . C O M "content for the community from the community" Welcome to the 101. newsletter of delphi3000.com # Newsletter Subscriber: 21.503 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO newsletter@bluestep.com, we will not read or answer any replies!!! Unsubscribe or change your email here: http://www.delphi3000.com/newsletter.asp CONTENT: "1" Happy New Year 2003 "2" A FREE 125x125 community-banner "3" Great Articles "4" This week's WINNERS "5" This week's ARTICLES "6" Pending QUESTIONS "7" Active Members "1" Happy New Year 2003 """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Happy New Year to all of YOU !!! We wanna say thanks to all of you who support delphi3000.. still read our newsletter :-) and so on ... We apologize that our service is not so accurate at the moment, but we try our best to keep it alive !!! Special thanks to all members who bought a SILVER or GOLD membership .. and of course to all our advertisers ! Without that support we would not be able to pay the maintenance costs... Enjoy or portal and please keep on posting nice articles !!!! "2" A FREE 125x125 community-banner """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" If you want to place a banner on DELPHI3000... send in a banner WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS (!!) and i will put it online. All you need is to be a FREE BRONZE member !!! Please mail the following to advertising@bluestep.com - 125x125 pixel banner (GIF or JPG; max. 15 KB in size) - your name - your member-ID "3" Great Articles """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Using XML in Delphi applications. Part I. from Sergey Kucherov: http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_3314.asp Introductory Principles of Indexed Searching from Jim: http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_3479.asp Using XML in Delphi applications. Part I from Sergey: http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_3314.asp Understanding VisualCLX from Max: http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3311 "4" This week's WINNERS """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" CONGRATULATIONS for your prizes !!! (Please contact the given email to request your prize!) "UK-BUG Developer Information Library (DIL) CD" (UK Borland User Group; http://www.richplum.co.uk): Member-Name: J. McKeeth Member-ID: http://www.delphi3000.com/member.asp?ID=25896 Contact wendy@richplum.co.uk for your CD-ROM ! 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"5" Last week's ARTICLES """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 10.01.2003: BALLOON TOOLTIPS Author: Calin Marinescu http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3504 09.01.2003: HOW TO DO DATASNAP WITHOUT HAVING A HEART ATTACK. With Rem Objects,you can do it easier and with more power. Author: Marcello Dias http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3503 01.01.2003: HOW TO PREVENT AN APPLICATION FOR CLOSING BY USER Author: manfred suesens http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3501 29.12.2002: BUILD A TABLE TREE FROM RECORDS TO OBJECTS How to show a database self join in a TreeView Author: Max Kleiner http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3499 27.12.2002: CALL A PROCEDURE IN AN MDI CHILD Newbie MDI Help Author: Moof Foof http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3498 27.12.2002: SOME QUESTIONS FOR BORLAND. Author: Cioina Alexei http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3497 26.12.2002: GETTING AN EXE FILE TYPE Author: Lutfi Baran http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3496 24.12.2002: DOES BILL GATES WANT TO BUY BORLAND? No,just destroying it a little bit. Author: Marcello Dias http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3493 23.12.2002: STAY WITH DELPHI JUST BECAUSE ITS STILL THE BEST II(REVISED) Code more and donīt be drived by fads. Author: Marcello Dias http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3492 23.12.2002: CALLS TO QT CAUSE INSTALLATION PROBLEMS FOR COMPONENTS IN KYLIX BCB IDE Author: Richard Winston http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3491 22.12.2002: GETDOCUMENTATION FOR TYPE LIBRARY How get Help String for Type Library himself Author: Nik Ozniev http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3490 19.12.2002: DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS, THE EASY WAY ( I ) How to do data exchange between processes in distributed applications Author: Eugene Mayevski http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3489 14.12.2002: LINK IN PROGMAN PROCEDURES/INTERNET SITES (2) How to add Link in MsgBox? Author: Fu-Hun-Ru Kaje-Ja http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3482 13.12.2002: WEBSNAP II: INTERACTING WITH THE USER using forms to execute actions on database Author: Eber Irigoyen http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3481 12.12.2002: INTRODUCTORY PRINCIPLES OF INDEXED SEARCHING How do search engines work Author: Jim McKeeth http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3479 12.12.2002: BMP INTO STATUSBAR Put picture on statusbar Author: Rodrigo Poli http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3476 10.12.2002: TDATASET => EXCEL (NO OLE OR EXCEL REQUIRED) class TDataSetToExcel Author: Mike Heydon http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3475 09.12.2002: BUILDING REAL-LIFE WEB SERVICES Author: Marc Hoffmann http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3474 09.12.2002: ADD LINK TO MSGBOX (UPDATED) Link in Progman Procedures/Internet Sites Author: Fu-Hun-Ru Kaje-Ja http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3473 08.12.2002: SPARTACUS PRO 1.0 Spartacus Pro Author: Marcelo Santos http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3472 08.12.2002: GETTING A MAC ADDRESS - THE JEDI WAY Author: Michael Brooks http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=3470 "6" Pending QUESTIONS """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" If YOU answer a pending question with an article it would be nice if you inform be about this: editorial@bluestep.com (put "ANSWERED PENDING QUESTION" in the subject) With this email you can also tell me which prize from our raffle you would like to WIN !!!! I am happy to consider this :-) - OLE Drag and Drop Some members are asking how to receive an OLE Drag and Drop event ! For example when you drag and drop an URL from Internet Explorer on a Delphi Form ... - HTMLFileDownloader A component that uses the function UrlDownloadToFile to download a file from a webserver.. but at the same time also downloads all the images that are needed by this webpage to be complete... - How to access the Outlook dbx files ! How to get native (not OLE) access to the DBX files.. to read certain emails from the Outlook database Walther Estergaard has some infos here: http://www.djpate.freeserve.co.uk/AutoOE.htm - Performance of Oracle There is no article on D3K about performance issues of Oracle. How to set the indices... how to write better queries etc etc. - Active Server Pages and Delphi There where several article requests about ASP. What have to be considered when you start developing COM components for ASP solutions... general questions like ADO-versions, file- handling, image-handling etc etc... 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