Takecharge Programming Blog
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Contractor Job Costing App lesson 5
Today we are looking as code for security controls of the app IE: Log In, New menu look and latest on our Drafting Module. Lets start with the Security code at the Log in screen. This is the button in the upper right corner of the screen and it sets the initial value. for each…
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Contractor Job Costing App Lesson 4
Today I am reviewing some changes and improvements from lesson three. The next little video shows the navigation changes. As you can see the menu for the supercontrol now passes the report name by xbasic code. There is only one control on the form and the following code sends the name to the supercontrol then…
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Contractor Job Costing App Lesson 3
After working on the application for several days now I have come to the decision that there needs to be two applications working together to have the app meet the extensive requirements. This lead me make a change in the look and functionality of the Contractor Job Costing App. One is the I also decided…
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The Drawing Canvas
Hello. Thanks for stopping by. In the last post I discussed the basic concept of my Contractor’s Job Costing Application. Today we are looking a little deeper into the simple CAD style drawing module. If you have ever started a remodel project you know the contractors come to the property and use a pad and…
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Contract Proposal Mgr:
Hello; Thanks for stopping by. To start off our project we need to determine exactly what the app will do. Sounds simple but if you have ever tired to write a design document from scratch you will find it is complicated. To ease my anxiety I like to start with broad strokes. For example, I…
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New Beginning
It’s been five years since I posted my last How to video about programming in Alpha Software. I became so busy I did not have the time or energy to keep the blog going. Now, I am retired and even though I have retained a few loyal customers who became friends, I once again have…
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Fetching Forms and Reports using Queries in Alpha Software
In our last exercise we looked at using queries controlled by variables to fetch and display a range of records in a form as well as using the table method to step through the child records to populate a rich text object with memo fields from the child records. In this exercise I will demonstrate…
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Understanding Queries in Alpha Software
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in .queryrun, batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Fetch, Fetch_Last, fetch_Next, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, Object Explorer, Object Method, ON Change, On Init, On Push, Radio Object, wordIn this current age of application development it is not enough to create an application which looks good and does what it was intended to do, it must also be fast. In Alpha Software when you create a table or set you will most likely create one or more index’s for controlling your data view.…
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Adding an ActiveX object to your application
ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web. In Alpha Software most Super Controls are in fact ActiveX objects. In this article we will look at adding a…
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Programming Developers Diary 18
April 18th, 2017 Hello everyone I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I once had a customer tell me, ‘The computer needs to work for me not me work for the computer.’ That makes perfect sense to me and I take care to ensure all forms I design address function first then form. Today I want…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 