Delphi Component Design

by Danny Thorpe

Delphi Component Design tells the inside story of how and why Delphi was built, and how to make use of this information to build better Delphi components and applications. Whether you're a Delphi application writer yearning to expand into component writing, or an experienced Delphi component writer in pursuit of the smaller, faster, better Holy Grail, Delphi Component Design will help you sort out what Delphi Visual Component Library (VCL) services can do for you (and how they do it); what your components can do for VCL; what standard behaviors your component classes must implement; and how to take advantage of little-known VCL classes and services to dramatically improve your component's ease of use, code reuse, flexibility, and performance.
This is the no-stone-unturned authority on building advanced Delphi components - from high-level views of how a component fits into the grand scheme of things to the minute details of how each link between a component and the rest of the system works; from design-time support tools to run-time performance optimizations.

348 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

Reviews

[Shoomg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Back in the 1990s when I was an eager Delphi developer, this book was very helpful for learning how to make Delphi components. Today, of course, it is useless because it is so out of date, but in its day it was very useful

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Delphi was the best programming language and this book taught how to design component based software in Delphi.