Creating Paradox for Windows Applications
The Professional Developer's Guide to Paradox for Windows

by Vince Kellen and Bill Todd

Let two industry experts teach you how to create real-world applications in
Paradox for Windows.  Creating Paradox for Windows Applications is a new book
written for experienced programmers who want to take control of ObjectPAL and
perform feats of programming magic.

Creating Paradox for Windows Applications steps through the process of
building an application.  Not only can you read the book and learn from the
code examples included, but you can also look at the code in the application
(on the enclosed 3.5" disk) and see it in action.

The application designed presents lots of real-world code to handle a variety
of tasks, including, but not limited to, displaying and handling an
application menu, using a pop-up calendar, controlling application shut-down
and start-up, validating records before they are posted, setting up records
with default values before the user starts editing them, retrieving
information from other forms, creating and controlling custom dialog boxes,
using libraries, printing and displaying reports, and running queries from
within ObjectPAL.  Each task comprises the core of what every Paradox
application needs to handle.  Each area is discussed and demonstrated in
detail.

Creating Paradox for Windows Applications:
Book Outline

Design
+  System Analysis and Design Techniques
+  User Interface Design
+  Database and Object Design

Object Construction
+  Creating Tables
+  Creating Queries
+  Building Data Entry Forms
+  Building Reports
+  Identifying and Creating Reusable Objects
+  Building the Main Form

Enhancing Objects with Code
+  The Event Model
+  Placing Code in Libraries
+  Controlling Data Entry with ObjectPAL
+  Building and Using Menus
+  Using TCursors Properly

Getting Fancy
+  Redefining Default Paradox Behavior
+  Debugging Your Code
+  Windows, Dialog Boxes and Custom Toolbars
+  Communications Between Forms:  Issues and Approaches
+  Multiuser and Networking Issues
+  Query Tricks
+  Using Graphic, OLE and DDE Objects
+  Using Functions in DLLs

Delivering the Application
+  Error-Proofing the Application
+  Delivering and Documenting the Application
+  Runtime
+  Client-Server Issues
+  ObjectPAL Naming Conventions

About the Authors

Bill Todd is president of The Database Group, a consulting and development
firm based near Phoenix.  He is a member of Team Borland providing technical
support for Paradox on CompuServe, technical editor of the Paradox Informant,
a speaker at every Borland Database conference and a nationally known Paradox
trainer.

Vince Kellen is Vice-President of Kallista, Inc..  He is a Contributing Editor
for the Paradox Informant and a frequent author for this and other database
publications. Vince was the lead author for "Paradox for Windows Power
Programming" published by Que Books. He is also a coordinator of the Paradox
Special Interest Group of the Chicago Computer Society and has been a frequent
speaker at Paradox Conferences throughout the country. Vince is also a member
of the IEEE and the ACM.


Creating Paradox for Windows Applications
By Vince Kellen and Bill Todd
Published by New Riders Publishing
571 Pages, Softcover, Includes 3.5" disk
ISBN 1-56205-404-X
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