Category: Operations

Programming in Alpha Software Magic Cube Lesson 3

Mar 3, 2016

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The primary focus for today’s session is how to animate the cube moves. If you saw my lesson on Having Fun with Graphics: Pong you know we can move objects on the screen by changing their position property value. We are not going to do that here. Instead we are changing the color value of…
Programming in Alpha Software: Magic Cube App Lesson 1

Feb 19, 2016

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Now that we have completed our lesson on the Sudoku Puzzle Game we are moving on to a Magic Cube Application. As I mentioned at the end of our previous lesson, my granddaughter recently got a Rubix Cube and asked me for help in solving it. I don’t want to actually solve the cube for…
Programming in Alpha Software Lesson 6: Append Operation

Feb 17, 2016

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We are starting off this lesson by finishing our Sudoku Puzzle Solver Application. When you select New Puzzle on the form, you are presented with the following dialog. We have reviewed the code for generating a Computer Generated Game Standard and now we will review; Manual Entry from Book Your Saved Puzzles Manual Entry…
Programming in Alpha Software Lesson 4: Sudoku Puzzle Solver Program

Jan 25, 2016

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We left off in the middle of a lengthy script which is run when a new game is started. You can review that script here Programming in Alpha Software Lesson 3. After the randomization runs we then save the solution to our currentpuzzlesolution table. My intent is to use the solution as a move checker…
Programming in Alpha Software Lesson 3: Understanding, Reason & Logic

Jan 22, 2016

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in Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, Form Design, Games, Hot Spots, How To, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Randomize Numbers, Sudoku, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Update, Using Eval function, Using If Else if, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks

In our last lesson we looked at Memory and how it is used in conjunction with look ups to provide the user with a list of choices for his – her review or action. Today we will look at Understanding Reason and Logic and the parts they play in your programming. Thought: The logical place…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4 Lesson 7

Dec 30, 2015

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For our final lesson on designing for the Surface Pro 4 we will examine the purchase and sale transaction form. On our main form we have two buttons , Record Purchase and Record Sale. The name clearly identifies the action that will be taken and the form for the most part is straight forward.…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 6

Dec 21, 2015

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We have created our Application and reviewed the code and today I moved it to the OneDrive Folder and opened it on my Surface Pro4 Sorry for the quality of the image, but my Smart phone is older and has a low end camera. Even with that, it looks good on the screen. Now…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 1

Nov 5, 2015

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Hello everyone. I know I said we would do a project manager application next and we will soon. I have received my Surface Pro 4 and I thought it would be better to do a lesson on developing an app for the tablet. I already have an order from a customer who provides field service…
Incorporating xBasic into Design 05

May 1, 2015

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Hello everyone Designing forms in Alpha Software is very easy using the Drag and Drop tools and simple set design wizard. Forms designed this way are bound to the underlying table which is OK based on the use of the form. For example, data entry forms should be bound to the table so as to…
Incorporating xBasic into Design 04

Apr 30, 2015

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in *html_to_plain, Changing Object Property Values, Clipboard.get_data, extract_string, Fetch, file.to_string, Form Design, How To, Memo Fields, On Event, On Push, Table Open Method, Update, Using Images on Forms, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone Today we will continue from the last session looking at our Recipe Builder application. We will start this session with copying data from a website and adding it to the recipe memo field on our form. To accomplish this we are using the function clipboard.get_data() In the not to distant past many websites…