Category: Conditional Object
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Incorporating xBasic into Form & HTML Document Design: 12
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in bin_to_rtf, Changing Object Property Values, character conversion, Conditional Object, Contact Management Application, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, file.to_string, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, HTML memo field, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, rtf_to_html, SuperControls, Table Open Method, tablecount, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we will be looking at further enhancements to our Desktop App by building a custom Report Viewer. Looks interesting right. Well to see it in action watch this short video then follow along to see how it is done. I hope you enjoyed the video. Lets get started. As I mentioned in…
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Incorporating xBasic into Form Design: 11
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in .queryrun, Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Declaring Variables on a Form, Fetch, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Object Method, ON Change, On Event, On Init, On Push, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using Query’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we will look at using xBasic to control multiple browses on a single form designed on a set with one to many links to five separate tables. This example comes from our Managers Workbook in our Restaurant Back Office software application and is written in version 8 of Alpha Software. Purpose of…
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Incorporating xBasic in Form Design: 08
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in Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Desktop Application, dir_put, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, Object Explorer, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, sys_shell, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using Eval function, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone Today we will continue our session on incorporating xBasic into our form design in Alpha Software by looking at the Application Launcher module in our TakeCharge Desktop v2 software written in Alpha Software v5. Before we get into the details of how this module works, I have included a short video demonstrating how…
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Incorporating xBasic and SuperControls in Form Design 07
Hello everyone Today we will look at activeX objects and the new SuperControl objects in Alpha Software and using xBasic to pass arguments to and control the view of our form objects. Below is a short video which demonstrates several different SuperControls. Please take a minute to watch the video before continuing with the session.…
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Incorporating xBasic in Form Design: 06
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in batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Contact Management Application, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Hot Spots, How To, On Event, On Init, On Push, On Timer, On Timer Event, Progressive Lookups, Table Open Method, tablecount, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello Everyone In this session we will look at an application I originally designed in Alpha Software v5. (Author’s Note: For those who have pointed out the displayed button styles were not available in version 5, the app was written is version 5 and continually updated through version 8 of Alpha Software taking advantage…
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Incorporating xBasic into Design 03
Hello everyone. Today we will continue our lesson of Incorporation xBasic in Design and will look at another simple application I wrote. A Recipe Catalog. Our focus today is controlling data entry using xBasic. Often when a form is created it is for a single purpose; presenting a menu, data entry, query views or record…
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Incorporating xBasic into Design: 02
Hello everyone and welcome back. Today we will continue to examine how xBasic can be used to dynamically control and modify the design elements in our application. In our last lesson we looked at controlling the WindowBar as a means of design control. Today we will look at the masking function, OnFetch event and conditional…
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Having Fun with Graphics in Alpha Software Lesson 3: Angles
Hello everyone In our last lesson we created our Pong table, the paddle and the ball. When the ball struck the paddle, it bounced only on the horizontal plane. Today, we are going to make the ball bounce at an angle. Watch the short video to see how it works and to get an overview…
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Having Fun w/ Graphics using xBasic Lesson 2 Pong
Hello Everyone In the last lesson I said we will take what we learned and use it to create the beginning of a pong game. Now the pong game on the surface is very simple. You have a ball, a paddle and movement. When the ball hits the paddle, it bounces. If it misses the…
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King James Bible Reader Lesson 4: Searching Memo Fields
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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 