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ARTICLES    Delphi ActiveMDIChild vs. merging the main form menu and the child window menus in a mdi application ( 10/24/2000) The obvious way to access a child window is to call its public methods from the main form. The other is to merge its main menu with the application main menu Tile, cascade, arrange and list mdi child windows (10/22/2000) Once you have your mdi framework up and running it's time to improve it with some common and very easy options for arranging the child forms inside the main window Basic MDI ( Multiple Document Interface) programming with Delphi 5 (9/21/2000) This type of interface is the one used by most Windows applications and allows the user to have multiple document windows open at the same time  In two lines (Delphi bits of code) How to log off, shutdown, reboot and power off the system from Delphi in Windows 95/98 and Windows NT (10/26/2000) Do you need to power off the system from your application? Of course, you wouldn't be reading this article if you didn't Get the color depth in bits per pixel of the current Windows display (10/11/2000) We're back to Windows API to get the color depth of the current Windows display. Color depth will be retrieved in bits per pixel, 8 bits per pixel means 256 colors, 16 bits per pixel is what Windows calls high density color, etc. Get the user name of the Windows current session (10/3/2000) Windows API can provide a lot of information about the system, including the name of the user logged in Convert Delphi TColor into HTML colors (10/3/2000) A function for transforming Delphi colors into HTML colors  Windows How to add a new option to the context menu for a file type (9/15/2000) Options in the context menu that appears when you right click on a file are user definable and very easy to set up How to survive in Windows if you have no mouse (9/20/1999) A compilation of some interesting key combinations that allow you to work in Windows 9x without using the mouse

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