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Ian Sharpe starts a new series on 4D, the powerful relational database included on the SuperCD last month, in which he builds a bank account manager. The 4D project files mentioned in the magazine article are here on the SuperCD, along with two ScreenCam movies to show how they work.
David Taylor continues this month’s 3D F/X tutorial here on the SuperCD looking at textures to improve the models within your scenes.
This month in Publish and Be... Paul Stephens has been looking at Filters and Transitions, a toolbox full of visual special effects goodies supplied with Internet Explorer 4.0. Filters let you display objects (text, images or whatever) with effects such as drop shadows and glowing 'halos', while transitions let you display visual changes (such as new text in a DIV or a new image file in an IMG) via wipes and dissolves, just like a presentation graphics program. On the SuperCD you'll find builder pages which let you design filters and transitions interactively, plus ScreenCam Movies showing how to use filters and transitions. On Paul's Website you'll find demo pages showing filter and transition scripting in action. Have fun!
Visual Basic Workshop
Visual Basic took the drudgery out of Windows programming, but there is another view: coding in a padded cell keeps you out of harm's way, but life's so much more limited than it is with other languages. This month Dermot Hogan breaks down the door and starts doing scary things - sub-classing windows with Visual Basic 5 CCE (also included on the SuperCD). Files are in \HANDSON\VBWKSHP, or click here to install them.
Delphi Workshop
Whatever your level of ability with Delphi programming, this month's workshop and the sample files on the SuperCD are sure to put new techniques at your fingertips. Huw's picked popular problems from his postbag and magically transformed them into his ten top tips. Files are in \HANDSON\DELPHI, or click here to install them. To see this month's programs in action first, click on the following names: RTEdit, RunStop, Splash, Test and Test2.
Java Workshop
The updated libraries in the Java Development Kit 1.1 (not included here) provide a way of saving objects and data structures of great complexity, without having to do so object by object and field by field. The magazine article and the sample files show how it's done. Files are in \HANDSON\JAVA, or click here to install them.
Programs from this month's Help Screen problem-solving feature include:
Magic Folders (shareware) hides directories under DOS, Win3.x and Win95.