Category: Conditional Object

Programming Developers Diary – 13

Feb 24, 2017

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February 24, 2017 Hello everyone. In my last post I demonstrated how to create an Alpha software app using xBasic code and how to attach an external library to your current app. Today I want to continue along those lines and look at the new process for building the code library and using the Project…
Programming Developers Diary – 11

Feb 9, 2017

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February 9, 2017 Picking up where we left off yesterday, we will look at our Menu System on our Clock Calendar. If you followed along on the Building a Better Desktop session then you have seen this before. I decided to review the code with you since I have made changes. Here is the xbasic…
Developers Diary-04

Jan 16, 2017

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Hello everyone. Hope all of you had a good weekend. Today I had a customer call to request a list of quotes linked to the Customer form. Quotes can be in the form of Shop repairs or Part Orders and any given customer could have both. Since Quotes are not linked to the Customer form,…
TakeCharge App Manager Lesson 02 Using A5 Enumerations

May 23, 2016

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A key component to our project application is to list all objects in the application development queue. We could simply provide data tables with a data entry form and have the user manually enter all the object information, but in truth that would not be a good solution since everyone today wants everything instantly. So…
Programming in Alpha Software: Magic Cube App Lesson 1

Feb 19, 2016

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Now that we have completed our lesson on the Sudoku Puzzle Game we are moving on to a Magic Cube Application. As I mentioned at the end of our previous lesson, my granddaughter recently got a Rubix Cube and asked me for help in solving it. I don’t want to actually solve the cube for…
PC Desktop: Embedding a progress bar in a form

Feb 2, 2016

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Hello Everyone I was looking at the Alpha Message Board today and saw a closed thread where the user was looking for help creating an embedded progress bar on their application form. Several people replied but none actually answered the query and now the thread is closed so I thought I would do a quick…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4 Lesson 7

Dec 30, 2015

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For our final lesson on designing for the Surface Pro 4 we will examine the purchase and sale transaction form. On our main form we have two buttons , Record Purchase and Record Sale. The name clearly identifies the action that will be taken and the form for the most part is straight forward.…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 5

Dec 9, 2015

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Now that we have looked at Tabs and how they work, you can start to see how the form drives the code. Our next example is Indexing. Select Index One of the ways Alpha Software creates an ordered list of selected records is with an Index. The index can be on any field in the…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 4

Dec 8, 2015

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Hello everyone. Today we are starting our blog off with a short video which demonstrates the form and function of our collectibles database up to this point. Watching the video will help you understand how and why I wrote the object code as I did. Sit back relax and enjoy the show. I hope you…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4:Lesson 3 Data Entry, Set and Form Design

Nov 19, 2015

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The course and history of programming has made business programs of like kind very equal. In the general layout look and workings of business programs one may appear to be slightly superior to another of kind yet when all is considered, the difference is not so great to say one application or program is greater…