Category: Progressive Lookups
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Incorporating xBasic into Form Design Writing scripts: 14
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in Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, How To, List Object, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, Table Open Method, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone. Today we are going to look at using Alpha Software scripts and how they fit into the program design. If you have been following along, you know most of the code I write is attached to the various objects on a form and or the form itself. There are times however when an…
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Incorporating xBasic into Form Design: 13
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in batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Custom Super Controls, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, OnDepart, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, SuperControls, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using goto label, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone Today we will look at additional features I have added to our Desktop app. In our last session we added the Report viewer for the data tables included in our Desktop app and today we are adding an external file viewer and an enhanced run dialog. Lets start with the External File Viewer.…
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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: 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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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 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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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 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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 