... high-end IT professionals. I'm not one of those. In the early days it was a hobbyists dream, available on magazine cover CDs, with many articles on using it for beginners and simple projects. Likewise there were many web sites for beginners, some of which are still online. The best one is probably Neil Moffatt's site: http://www.delphibasics.co.uk which has simple easy-to-follow examples of most things. This is the book from which I learned the full chapter and verse of Object Pascal: 2_071248_310000000.jpg Mine is the 1999 edition. I have discovered that the 2002 edition from Delphi6 is still online at: http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/cbuilder6/EN/CB6_ObjPascalLangGuide_EN.pdf As far as I can see it is almost exactly the same thing, so if you refer to page numbers in there I can see where you are. Of course that's only the Object Pascal. It doesn't cover the Delphi VCL components. The much thicker (46 chapters) Delphi 7 Developers Guide is also still online at: http ...