Category: List Objects
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Writing xBasic Lesson 8 Controlling Code Flow with object Properties
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…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 7 Error Trapping
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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Writing xBasic Lesson 6
Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will look at controlling the sate of objects on a form using various xBasic methods. Knowing in advance what you expect from the form objects helps you write efficient and compact code. Watch the short video above to see what we mean. First lets look at the changes we made to…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 4 Using Variables to Control Data Views
Hello Everyone Today we are going to examine the code on the Review Message Form of our TC Message Center application. On this form there are two text boxes which display the current state of the data view and also are used to process changes made by the user to change the data view. At…
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Tutorial: Lesson Twelve Contact Mgt App Advanced xDialog
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Hello again. Before we begin our new lesson, lets take a moment to look back at what we have accomplished so far. Below is the application before we started to modify it. Navigation bar to the left and a big blue space filling the screen. Now lets look at where we are so far. We…
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Tutorial : Lesson eight controlling data entry with forms
Hello everyone Today we will discuss the various types of forms available for data entry into Alpha Software. Typically when you design your application and you build your tables and sets you will bind your forms to your set or tables and use those for data entry . Alpha software provides additional methods for creating…
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Tutorial: Lesson Seven Contact App On Fetch Event
Hello everyone Today we are discussing four separate topics. Each of these topics are used to create and manage a new list object on our application. Table layout and design On Fetch Event Getting records from an external database Building a list object If we look at the structure of the People table, we see…
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Tutorial: Lesson Six Contact App Progressive Lookup
Hello Everyone. Today we will look in greater detail about form design and add some new components to our People form. As we discussed in the previous lesson, the form in the default app is disjointed, cluttered and awkward to use. Look at our new form below to see the differences. This new form introduces…
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