Category: Memo Fields

Incorporating xBasic into Design 03

Apr 22, 2015

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in Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Declaring Variables on a Form, Form Design, Form Load Method, Hot Spots, How To, Memo Fields, On Event, On Push, Progressive Lookups, Tables and Sets, Text Lookup, Using Images on Forms, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 3: Building Text Filter Strings

Jan 30, 2013

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in Changing Object Property Values, Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Objects, Memo Fields, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Tree View

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…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 2: Main Form Obj Code

Jan 25, 2013

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in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, MultiState Button, Object Explorer, Object Method, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, Record List Combo, Tree View, Using goto label, Using Images on Forms, Word_Unique, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone Today we will be looking at our main form for our reader, the objects on the form, the properties of the objects and the code which makes them work. First take a minute to watch this short video which gives an overview of what we will discuss in the blog. I hope you…
King James Bible Reader Lesson 1: the Basics

Jan 22, 2013

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in Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, Tables and Sets

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…
King James Bible Reader Lesson Plan Overview

Jan 16, 2013

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in Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, Memo Fields, Posting

Hello everyone First let me say there was not much interest in the Powerball Generator game so I am ending that lesson series and starting a new one. If you have been following the powerball lessons and want answers to specific questions, contact me at NLawson@cdc-TakeCharge.com and I will be happy to try to help.…
Tutorial: Lesson Twelve Contact Mgt App Advanced xDialog

Aug 29, 2012

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in Autoexec Script, Contact Management Application, Converting Data Types, Custom Super Controls, External Email Client, External Report Viewers, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Memo Fields, Progressive Lookups, Tabbed Object, Tables and Sets, Using System Open, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialog

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…
Tutorial: Lesson Eleven Sending Rich Text data to an External Email Program

Aug 28, 2012

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in Contact Management Application, Converting Data Types, External Email Client, Form Design, How To, Memo Fields, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone Today our lesson will center on using the newly created memo writer as an E-Mail writer and exporting the users memo to their favorite external email program. Last week we created our Note Writer (see below) and showed how to extract the data from the memo field and display the contents in a…
Tutorial: Lesson Ten Contact App Using Memo Fields

Aug 17, 2012

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in Contact Management Application, Form Design, How To, Memo Fields, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Today’s lesson looks at the difference between standard memo fields and rich text memo fields and the xbasic code required to extract data from either. We will also examine the process for controlling object properties on the screen and how you can use those properties as a means of branching code. A standard memo field…