Category: Fetch
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Incorporating xBasic into Design: 02
Hello everyone and welcome back. Today we will continue to examine how xBasic can be used to dynamically control and modify the design elements in our application. In our last lesson we looked at controlling the WindowBar as a means of design control. Today we will look at the masking function, OnFetch event and conditional…
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Incorporating xBasic in the Design Process
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…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 8
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…
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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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Writing xBasic Lesson 8 Controlling Code Flow with object Properties
Hello Everyone Today’s video looks at how you can user property values on objects to modify or change the actions of an on push event. Also we demonstrate the high level append operation and setting a field type to Record List Edit Combo Box. Watch the video then continue with this blog lesson for the…
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