How to Attach Notes to TreeView Branches in Delphi

Here's my latest video on programming a collapsible outliner using Delphi. In this one, I associate text notes with the branches (nodes) of a TreeView.

To watch this series of videos from the start, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHx5heVfgEtHeS6O2ePOkr3f-agvPxi6

Delphi is 25! And Now I Have a Book…

I’ve been programming in Delphi for over 25 years. What? Can that really be true? It doesn’t seem that long but Delphi’s just had its 25th birthday so it really must be. It was launched in 1995 and I was using the pre-release beta some months before that. I wrote the review of Delphi for PC Plus Magazine and for more than ten years after that I wrote the monthly Delphi programming columns for the same magazine.

Delphi was the successor to Borland’s hugely successful DOS-based Turbo Pascal and its less successful Windows Pascal (even I can hardly remember that – I think it was called ‘Borland Pascal With Objects’ or something equally unmemorable). At the time, Delphi was, in my view, far the best visual (drag-and-drop, design-and-code) environment for Windows. Its only real competition was Microsoft’s Visual Basic. The trouble is that no matter how visual you make Basic, it’s still Basic. Whereas Delphi used a very nice version of Pascal that had a reasonably modular unit-based system, good Object Orientation and also had low-level features for anyone who might be missing C.

This is the latest in a series of little programming books. Other titles include:

• The Little Book Of C
• The Little Book Of C#
• The Little Book Of Ruby
• The Little Book Of Pointers
• The Little Book Of Recursion
• The Little Book Of Adventure Game Programming

Anyway, Delphi is still going strong. It’s owned by Embarcadero these days and you can get a free copy from their web site. To celebrate Delphi’s 25th birthday, I’ve just released a book for new or intermediate Delphi programmers. It’s called The Little Book Of Delphi and it’s available in paperback or as a Kindle eBook from Amazon.

The Little Book Of Delphi covers:

• Fundamentals of Delphi
• The Object Pascal language 
• Object Orientation
• Variables, Types, Constants
• Operators and Tests
• for loops and while loops
• Procedures and Functions 
• Parameters and Arguments
• Arrays and Lists
• String Operations
• Case Statements
• User-defined Types
• Constructors and Methods
• Creating and Freeing Objects
• Inheritance and Encapsulation
• Virtual and Overridden Methods
• File-handling
• Text files and Binary files
• Streaming and Serialization
• Errors and Exceptions
• ...and much more

Here are the links:
Amazon (US)
Paperback: https://amzn.to/37ZJqHF
eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0854D12GJ

Amazon (UK)
Paperback: https://amzn.to/392AJxm
eBook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0854D12GJ