Category: Field Rules

TakeCharge App Manager Lesson 04: Time and Billing

Dec 23, 2016

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Hello everyone and Merry Christmas If you have been following my blog on programming in Alpha Software, you know it has been several months since my last post. In fact, it has been close to half a year. I make no excuses or offer now apologies. It is what it is. After the New Year…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4 Lesson 7

Dec 30, 2015

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in Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Field Rules, Form Design, Form Load Method, Hot Spots, How To, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, Posting, Tables and Sets, TC Collectibles Mgr, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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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in Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Custom ToolBar, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Field Rules, Form Design, Hot Spots, How To, Index_SetExplicit, List Objects, Memo Fields, Object Method, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, Set Tab Order, Tables and Sets, TC Collectibles Mgr, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialog

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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in Conditional Object, Desktop Application, Field Rules, Form Design, Hot Spots, How To, Tables and Sets, TC Collectibles Mgr, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 1

Nov 5, 2015

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in Append, External_Record_Content_Get, Field Rules, Form Design, Handling Errors, How To, Posting, Table Open Method, TC Collectibles Mgr

Hello everyone. I know I said we would do a project manager application next and we will soon. I have received my Surface Pro 4 and I thought it would be better to do a lesson on developing an app for the tablet. I already have an order from a customer who provides field service…
Writing xBasic Lesson 8 Controlling Code Flow with object Properties

Nov 16, 2012

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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…
Tutorial: Lesson 9 Contact App Field Rules

Aug 15, 2012

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in Contact Management Application, Field Rules, Form Design, How To, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone In the last training session I said we would discuss the memo entry process and the differences between a standard memo field and a rich text memo field. As I was setting up this lesson, I noticed there were several things that needed to be done before we could actually do that. Alpha…