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King James Bible Reader Lesson 4: Searching Memo Fields

Feb 12, 2013

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in Conditional Object, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, On Event, On Push, Smatch_Memo, Table Open Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone Today we are discussing how to build a list of records based on the values found in a memo field. As an example, we will look at the search feature of our King James Bible Reader. The short video below shows how the Search feature works and gives an overview of the code…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 3: Building Text Filter Strings

Jan 30, 2013

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in Changing Object Property Values, Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Objects, Memo Fields, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Tree View

Hello everyone. As I stated in the previous lesson we would look at the life issues portion of the King James Bible Reader as a separate lesson. This is that lesson. To start, you should watch the short video below to see how the Life Issues portion of the application works. Hope you liked the…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 2: Main Form Obj Code

Jan 25, 2013

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in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, MultiState Button, Object Explorer, Object Method, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, Record List Combo, Tree View, Using goto label, Using Images on Forms, Word_Unique, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone Today we will be looking at our main form for our reader, the objects on the form, the properties of the objects and the code which makes them work. First take a minute to watch this short video which gives an overview of what we will discuss in the blog. I hope you…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 1: the Basics

Jan 22, 2013

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cdctakecharge

in Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, Tables and Sets

Hello Everyone In creating our new lesson I decided to design this lesson as if the audience knows nothing about database applications in general and specifically Alpha 5 as a development platform. With that said, lets get started. Alpha Software defines itself as an ‘Enterprise relational database management system for planning, creating and distributing database…
King James Bible Reader Lesson Plan Overview

Jan 16, 2013

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cdctakecharge

in Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, Memo Fields, Posting

Hello everyone First let me say there was not much interest in the Powerball Generator game so I am ending that lesson series and starting a new one. If you have been following the powerball lessons and want answers to specific questions, contact me at NLawson@cdc-TakeCharge.com and I will be happy to try to help.…
Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson Three

Dec 17, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Changing Object Property Values, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Init, On Push, PowerBall, Using Query’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone As I mentioned in the last post we would discuss how to build a data analyzer for our Powerball Game. The principles we will discuss go beyond our game and can be used in all types of database applications. When designing an application for a business regardless of the development platform or the…
Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson Two

Dec 11, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Changing Object Property Values, Form Design, How To, Object Method, On Event, On Push, PowerBall, Randomize Numbers, Using goto label, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone. Today’s lesson is about using the Rand() function in Alpha Software to generate the random numbers needed for our Powerball generator. Powerball rules are you need to pick 5 numbers from 1 to 59 for the white ping pong balls and pick one red ball number which ranges from 1 to 35. If…
Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson 1

Dec 6, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Form Design, Games, How To, PowerBall, Tables and Sets

Hello everyone Well it’s been a while since my last post but as you all know the holidays can be time-consuming. Now that Thanks Giving is out-of-the-way; (mine was great I hope yours was as well) and Christmas shopping is finished ‘whew!!’ I have time to work again. As stated in the video, we have…
Writing xBasic Lesson 8 Controlling Code Flow with object Properties

Nov 16, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Fetch, Field Rules, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Arrive, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Progressive Lookups, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone Today’s video looks at how you can user property values on objects to modify or change the actions of an on push event. Also we demonstrate the high level append operation and setting a field type to Record List Edit Combo Box. Watch the video then continue with this blog lesson for the…
Writing xBasic Lesson 7 Error Trapping

Nov 10, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Conditional Object, Form Design, Handling Errors, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will cover three topics; Error Trapping and how to handle errors Restricting data entry based on data values stored in a table. Conditional Object as a means of form layout control. The form we will be using for our demonstration today are the Take Message form and the Administrator form Let’s…

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