Category: Blackjack
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Programming Developer’s Diary – 06
January 20th, 2017 Hello everyone. This morning I had an online training session with the client who received the receivables upgrade and it went very well. I left the session telling the person to send an email with all adjustments or changes they wished to see no matter how small and I just got a…
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Programming in Alpha Software Black Jack 05 Final Punch List
Our blackjack program is coming to a close and I decided to review the items left to do and give an overview of the solution. Lets look at our design document. As you can see, not much is left to do. So lets review. 1. Push goes to the house. Our win loss control is…
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Programming in Alpha Software Black Jack 04 Game Mechanics
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in Append, batch_Begin, Blackjack, Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Fetch_Prev, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Operations, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using Eval function, Using goto label, Using If Else if, Using Images on Forms, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksProgramming our Black Jack Game will be a success only if the game mechanics make sense and work similar to the real world. What I mean by this is users know the Black Jack game and are familiar with how it works, so our game must work the same or users will lose interest and…
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Programming in Alpha Software: Black Jack 03
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in batch_Begin, Blackjack, Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Fetch_Prev, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using goto label, Using If Else if, Using Images on Forms, XBasic Tips and TricksWelcome back. In this session we are looking at the deal, but before we do; lets look at our design document to see what we have accomplished so far and what still needs to be done. As you can see, we are moving right along and should be done in a few more sessions. Now…
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Programming in Alpha Software Black Jack 02
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in batch_Begin, Blackjack, Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Hot Spots, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Randomize Numbers, Script Genie, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Update, Using goto label, Using Images on Forms, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogWhen we left off at the end of session 01 I said we would look at New Game Control Controlling the Number of Players Shuffling the Deck. If the lesson does not get too long I will review the animation of dealing a card as well. I created this short video to show where we…
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Programming in Alpha Software: Blackjack Game 01
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in Blackjack, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Handling Errors, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, List Object, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using goto label, Using If Else if, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone We completed our Magic Cube programming lesson an I must say my granddaughter was over the other day and she played with it on my SurfacePro tablet and matched the moves on her real cube for hours so I guess that means it was a success. Now lets move on to something more…