> We are looking at getting some delphi books to cover the
> range from being both 'Learning material for getting new
> programmers up to speed' and 'Reference Tool'...
> Can anyopne comment on these books or recommend others and give
> their experiences.
I cannot recommend to highly Ray Lischner's two books 'Secrets of Delphi 2'
and 'Hidden Paths of Delphi 3'. Don't let the names fool you, because both
cover material that is extremely relevant to Delphi 4, as D4 was simply an
improved version with little really fancy in the areas of RTTI, IDE
integration, property editors, component editors, designers and other fun
areas.
Both books are best reguarded as advanced reference works suitable for
serious Delphi environment hacking. In fact these are the only two Delphi
book I own! All the other seem a litle pale, pasty and obvious in
comparision.
The only stuff missing is in writing your own TDataSet derivatives, but as
this is a topic that would need a book (or two!) of its own, and none of the
existing books cover this area very well, I'm not holding my breath. In any
case, unlike the IDE internals, all the TDataSet source is available and
more accurtate than any possible book 8-)
Cheers, Max.
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