Category: Handling Errors

Programming Developers Diary – 03

Jan 13, 2017

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January 13,2017 Hello everyone. I have completed the receivables module upgrade for my customer and did the thing I hate most but must do which is check my work. Typically I test my work as I go along but those test work on the norm rather than the exception. We all know in the business…
Programming in Alpha Software: Blackjack Game 01

Mar 10, 2016

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Hello 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…
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…
PC Desktop: Embedding a progress bar in a form

Feb 2, 2016

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Hello Everyone I was looking at the Alpha Message Board today and saw a closed thread where the user was looking for help creating an embedded progress bar on their application form. Several people replied but none actually answered the query and now the thread is closed so I thought I would do a quick…
Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 5

Dec 9, 2015

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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…
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 in the Design Process

Apr 7, 2015

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Hello everyone. Before we start this next chapter ‘Incorporating xBasic in Design’ I want to give a follow up on our Chess Program. In the last post I introduced a new table for analyzing our moves. I also discussed how the table would advance through the options i.e. protect, attack and strategize. Well I want…
Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 8

Jan 20, 2015

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Hello everyone As mentioned in the previous post, I have started in a new direction for our chess engine. If the program is to think like a human then we must first look at how a human plays the game. Now I am not the best chess player in the world, in fact I consider…
Writing xBasic Lesson 7 Error Trapping

Nov 10, 2012

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Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will cover three topics; Error Trapping and how to handle errors Restricting data entry based on data values stored in a table. Conditional Object as a means of form layout control. The form we will be using for our demonstration today are the Take Message form and the Administrator form Let’s…