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Steve's Borland C++ Builder Page - Tutorials

This section of my Builder web pages will present several tutorials on how to do things in Builder. The type of tutorials will range from beginner to advanced, but will not contain the type of tutorials contained in the Teach Yourself Borland C++ Builder 3 in 14 days. If you need this kind of tutorials, then read the book.

As this is a very new page, I am still experimenting heavily with the contents of the tutorials, and the level of skill required for each. If anybody feels that a tutorial is too hard, or too easy for the level I gave it, then please email me. Also, if the tutorials are too hard to follow, then I would be interested in feedback on this.

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Beginner Tutorials

Tutorial Description Date Added Last Update

Fonts and Combo Boxes
This tutorial demonstrates how to fill a combo box with the fonts installed on a system. The tutorial demonstrates how to add controls to a form at run-time, as no form is designed in the editor.

The classes TForm, TComboBox, TLabel, TFont, TBitmap and the Win32 function EnumFontFamilies are demonstrated.

Executable
Zip File containing code

Notes: As an intermediate tutorial, I may do a font combo box that displays the font in the box itself.
23 Sep 1998 N/A

Finger
This tutorial demonstrates the simple Internet application: Finger. For this version to work you will need Borland C++ Builder Professional as I am using components only available in this package.

The classes TForm, TEdit, TStatusBar, TMemo, and TNMFinger are demonstrated, along with adding new message handlers.

Executable
Zip File containing code

Notes: As an advanced tutorial, I may do a Finger application from scratch for Borland C++ Builder Standard owners. This would involve implementing Winsock classes from scratch as you people don't even have that.
9 Oct 1998 N/A

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COM Tutorials

Tutorial Description Date Added Last Update

Setting up a project
This tutorial describes how to start a COM project. When using COM I typically do not use the BCB method of using the Type Library Editor, as I feel this restricts the things that you can do. Instead I use the more Microsoft VC++ method of using MIDL which is also supplied with BCB. This method may be more complicated but after a time it becomes second nature and you wonder why you ever struggled with Borland's intrusive code generators used by the TLE.

In this tutorial I will go into Makefiles, and a suitable file template structure for creating COM server DLLs.

Tutorial 1
Tutorial 1 Zipped with files
24 June 2001

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