Programming the Paradox Engine

by Vernick, Michael; Signore, Robert; Stegman, Michael O.

• ISBN13: 9780070791213
• ISBN10: 007079121X
• Edition: Disk
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Windcrest

Summary

Programming the Paradox Engine: C++ Windows Applications tells you everything you need to know to make your Paradox business applications faster and more functional with C++.
First, the authors explain how to access and fine-tune the Paradox engine to speed up an application. Then, they provide a "just-in-time tutorial" filled with performance routines and extensive source code examples that demonstrate the advantages of using C++ to develop Paradox applications. A virtual gold mine of ready-to-use code is included for the following problem-solving routines: extending the Borland Object Windows Library (OWL) to allow access to Paradox tables, validity checking during data entry, planning an object-oriented application, writing a Windows-compliant User Interface, Performing single-table queries and displaying the results, and linking tables in a parent-child relation to maintain referential integrity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Relational databases and Paradox	p. 1
An application planning process	p. 17
The Resource Workshop and the user interface	p. 35
The objects of our application	p. 61
Integrating the user interface and the Engine	p. 133
Performing data validity checking with the Engine	p. 151
Maintaining database integrity with the Engine	p. 169
Query processing and the Engine	p. 225
Appendix: Source code listings	p. 295
Index	p. 370
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