Delphi 5 Quick start.pdf

Quick Start

Borland ®

Delphi ™ 5

for Windows 98, Windows 95, & Windows NT

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Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction 1-1

What is Delphi? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Where to find information . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Printed documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Developer support services . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Typographic conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Chapter 4

Customizing the environment 4-1

Organizing your work area . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Docking tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Arranging menus and toolbars . . . . . . . . 4-4

Customizing desktop settings . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Setting default project options. . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Specifying default projects and forms . . . . . . 4-5

Setting tool preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Customizing the Code editor . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Customizing the Form Designer. . . . . . . . 4-6

Setting Explorer options . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Customizing the Component palette . . . . . . . 4-7

Arranging the Component palette. . . . . . . 4-8

Installing components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Adding ActiveX controls . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Creating component templates . . . . . . . . 4-8

Customizing the Help system . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Chapter 2

A tour of the environment 2-1

Starting Delphi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Using toolbars, menus, and keyboard

shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Placing components on a form . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Changing component appearance and

behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Working with events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Viewing and editing code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Viewing form files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Browsing with the editor . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Exploring code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Managing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Browsing project elements and structure . . . . 2-8

Creating to-do lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Designing data modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Setting project and environment options . . . . 2-10

Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Help with coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Class Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Debugging applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Exploring databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Templates and the Object Repository . . . . . . 2-15

Chapter 5

Programming with Delphi 5-1

Development tools and features. . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Using the VCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Exception handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Database connectivity and utilities . . . . . . 5-3

BDE Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

SQL Explorer (Database Explorer) . . . . . 5-3

Database Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Data Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Kinds of development project . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Applications and servers . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

DLLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Custom components and packages . . . . . . 5-5

Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

COM and ActiveX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Type libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Deploying applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Internationalizing applications . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Chapter 3

Your first application—a brief tutorial 3-1

Starting a new application . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Setting property values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Adding objects to the form . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Connecting to a database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Adding support for a menu and a toolbar . . . 3-6

Adding a menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Adding a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

Displaying images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Adding text and memo objects . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Writing an event handler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Index

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Chapter1

Introduction

This Quick Start provides an overview of the Delphi development environment to get

you started using the product right away. It also tells you where to look for details

about the tools and features available in Delphi.

What is Delphi?

Delphi is an object-oriented, visual programming environment for rapid application

development (RAD). Using Delphi, you can create highly efficient applications for

Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT with a minimum of manual

coding. Delphi provides all the tools you need to develop, test, debug, and deploy

applications, including a large library of reusable components, a suite of design tools,

application and form templates, and programming wizards. These tools simplify

prototyping and shorten development time.

Where to find information

Information on Delphi is available in a variety of forms:

•Onine Help

• Printed documentation

• Inprise developer support services

• Inprise and borland.com Web sites

For information about new features in this release, refer to What’s New in Delphi? in the

online Help and to the borland.com Web site.

Introduction 1-1

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