Category: XBasic Tips and Tricks
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: A New Perspective
Hello Everyone Hope the holiday season is going well for all of you. It’s been a while since my last post and that has been because I am not having the success with the direction I am taking on my min/max program that I had hoped for. For example; If white opens with e4…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson6
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in Changing Object Property Values, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, Programming A Chess Game, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Tree View, Using If Else if, Using Query’s, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello Everyone Today we will be looking at the opening book for our chess program and the code for all the functions related to the opening book. Before we begin please take a moment to watch this short video which demonstrated the use of the opening book and the new features we are adding to…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson5
Hello Everyone Today we are looking at the changes to our code affecting WhitesBoard and BlacksBoard. These two routines provide a list of each piece on the board which is available to move and where it can move to. The changes I made process these list to create values needed in scoring the game as…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson 4
Hello Everyone In our last lesson we showed a video demonstrating the chess program in action with a human playing both Black and White. As I commented in the lesson, the code is growing and starting to become unmanageable. The code does work, but it fails in a major way. The available data strings are…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson 3
Hello Everyone Today we will be looking at the process for capturing an opponents piece and the process for checking the opponents King. Also, we will need to readdress the Setup code to reflect the changes in our table grid. First, I now have a short video showing the game so far. Now it is…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 2
Hello Everyone In our first lesson we looked at our chess piece and position table and the code for each square on our board. As I mentioned the table may change and it has. I will review the new structure and reason for the change below. We also looked at moving the piece image from…
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PC Desktop: Setup Wizard
Hello Everyone Hope you had a Great 4th of July. Like most people, there is nothing I hate more than getting something new and being forced to go through some sort of setup before I can begin enjoying my new product. With that in mind, our Desktop App will ship with the ability to run…
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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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Having fun with Graphics Lesson 4: Desktop Widget
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in Autoexec Script, Changing Object Property Values, Custom Super Controls, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, Form Design, Form Load Method, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Init, On Push, On Timer Event, Owner Draw, Using Eval function, Using If Else if, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone At the end of lesson three, I said we would work on a CAD Design style application but it is taking some time to put together so in the mean time, I thought I would post this fun and useful lesson. To start, watch this short video to see the widget work and…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 