Category: Converting Data Types
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Understanding Queries in Alpha Software
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in .queryrun, batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Fetch, Fetch_Last, fetch_Next, Form Design, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, Object Explorer, Object Method, ON Change, On Init, On Push, Radio Object, wordIn this current age of application development it is not enough to create an application which looks good and does what it was intended to do, it must also be fast. In Alpha Software when you create a table or set you will most likely create one or more index’s for controlling your data view.…
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Programming Developers Diary – 13
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in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Conditional Object, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, External Report Viewers, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, File Functions, Form Design, Form Load Method, Functions, How To, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Posting, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, Using System Open, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogFebruary 24, 2017 Hello everyone. In my last post I demonstrated how to create an Alpha software app using xBasic code and how to attach an external library to your current app. Today I want to continue along those lines and look at the new process for building the code library and using the Project…
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TakeCharge App Manager Lesson 03
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in *html_to_plain, Append, bin_to_rtf, character conversion, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External Email Client, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, HTML memo field, Memo Fields, On Push, rtf_to_html, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogCurrently I am still working on the routine for editing scripts and weighing the best possible solutions. So in the meantime, lets look at some of the Modules which will accompany our application. One module which I left out of the original list is an email manager. If you are developing for clients, a common …
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Incorporating xBasic into Form & HTML Document Design: 12
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in bin_to_rtf, Changing Object Property Values, character conversion, Conditional Object, Contact Management Application, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, file.to_string, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, HTML memo field, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, rtf_to_html, SuperControls, Table Open Method, tablecount, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we will be looking at further enhancements to our Desktop App by building a custom Report Viewer. Looks interesting right. Well to see it in action watch this short video then follow along to see how it is done. I hope you enjoyed the video. Lets get started. As I mentioned in…
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Having Fun with Graphics Lesson 5: Bar Graphs
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in Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, Form Load Method, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, On Timer Event, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we are continuing our lesson plan on controlling graphics in Alpha Software just using objects on a form and xBasic code. As I was preparing the CAD application lesson I thought of a more practical application for managing objects and graphics on the screen which is building a bar graph. Bar Graphs…
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King James Bible Reader Final Lesson:
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in Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External Email Client, External Report Viewers, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, King James Bible Reader, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone This is our final lesson on building a King James Bible reader in Alpha Software. Below is a short video which wraps up the final pieces of object code for our application and shows the solution for our new range query function. First we will look at the code for our new range…
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Tutorial: Lesson Eighteen Contact Mgt App Exporting notes
Hello Everyone This is our last lesson in the series; building a better and more robust Contact Management App in Alpha Software. Our next series of lessons will focus on the xBasic language Alpha Software uses as it’s programming language and contrast it with the high level action scripts and table operations. The short video…
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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 Eleven Sending Rich Text data to an External Email Program
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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 