Category: List Objects
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 8
Hello everyone As mentioned in the previous post, I have started in a new direction for our chess engine. If the program is to think like a human then we must first look at how a human plays the game. Now I am not the best chess player in the world, in fact I consider…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson6
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in Changing Object Property Values, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, Programming A Chess Game, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Tree View, Using If Else if, Using Query’s, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello Everyone Today we will be looking at the opening book for our chess program and the code for all the functions related to the opening book. Before we begin please take a moment to watch this short video which demonstrated the use of the opening book and the new features we are adding to…
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PC Desktop: Setup Wizard
Hello Everyone Hope you had a Great 4th of July. Like most people, there is nothing I hate more than getting something new and being forced to go through some sort of setup before I can begin enjoying my new product. With that in mind, our Desktop App will ship with the ability to run…
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Having Fun with Graphics Lesson 5: Bar Graphs
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in Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, Form Load Method, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, On Timer Event, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we are continuing our lesson plan on controlling graphics in Alpha Software just using objects on a form and xBasic code. As I was preparing the CAD application lesson I thought of a more practical application for managing objects and graphics on the screen which is building a bar graph. Bar Graphs…
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King James Bible Reader Final Lesson:
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in Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External Email Client, External Report Viewers, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone This is our final lesson on building a King James Bible reader in Alpha Software. Below is a short video which wraps up the final pieces of object code for our application and shows the solution for our new range query function. First we will look at the code for our new range…
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King James Bible Reader Lesson 5: Code Branching
Hello Everyone Today’s lesson is about code branching in xBasic based on user choices. For our example we have created an open ended search feature in our King James Bible Reader. Based on the user’s input into the search fields, the code branches and searches the correct table for the requested bible verses. The video…
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King James Bible Reader Lesson 3: Building Text Filter Strings
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…
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King James Bible Reader Lesson 1: the Basics
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…
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Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson Three
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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 