Category: Script Genie

Programming Developers Diary – 05

Jan 19, 2017

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January 19, 2017 Hello everyone. The last two days have been busy with typical duties related to a small software business. My arrangement with my customers is they can go under contract and get free support for programming issues as well as a discount for new programming needs. Normally all goes well but some days…
Programming in Alpha Software Black Jack 02

Mar 24, 2016

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When 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…
Programming in Alpha Software Lesson 6: Append Operation

Feb 17, 2016

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in Append, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, How To, On Push, Operations, Script Genie, Sudoku, TC Magic Cube, Update, Using goto label, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 5

Dec 9, 2015

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in Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Custom ToolBar, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Field Rules, Form Design, Handling Errors, Hot Spots, How To, Index_SetExplicit, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, Multi-Select Checkbox, On Event, On Init, On Push, Script Genie, Set Tab Order, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, TC Collectibles Mgr, Using goto label, Using If Else if, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialog

Now that we have looked at Tabs and how they work, you can start to see how the form drives the code. Our next example is Indexing. Select Index One of the ways Alpha Software creates an ordered list of selected records is with an Index. The index can be on any field in the…
Writing xBasic Lesson 1 Overview:

Oct 1, 2012

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cdctakecharge

in Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, Messaging Software, Script Genie, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone. Today we are starting a new lesson session on writing xBasic code and how it compares to Alpha Software’s Action scripting and high level commands. The video below shows the tutorial application provided by Alpha Software called ‘It’s for You’. We will use this tutorial as a guide and in the process make…
Tutorial: Contact Management App Lesson Three

Jul 27, 2012

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in Contact Management Application, External Report Viewers, Form Design, How To, Script Genie, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone, and welcome back As we mentioned yesterday we will be discussing how to send a report to an external file viewer. First, lets look at the print preview code which is attached to the original print preview report button on the main menu. When you look at the on push event for the…
Tutorial: Lesson One Building a Contact Management Application

Jul 25, 2012

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in Contact Management Application, Form Design, How To, Script Genie, Tables and Sets, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone, we are starting a programming lesson on how to build a Contact Management Application is Alpha Software. We will be using version 10 of their development platform. First Lesson we are going to show how to build a complete application using the free Contact App distributed with Alpha Software v10 Each Lesson will…
AlphaDAO: Using values from a Spreadsheet in your Alpha Software Application.

Mar 30, 2012

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in Form Design, How To, Import Genie’s, Script Genie, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Many small businesses use spreadsheets for their daily data processing. While it is OK, it does not provide the business with proper data analysis and trend forecasting. For that, they need a database. Alpha Software has easy procedures for extracting and using data in a spreadsheet eliminating the need for double entry, thus giving the…