Tag: Alpha Software
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Tutorial: Lesson Fourteen Contact Mgt App ZipCode Tbl Lookup Dialog
Hello everyone In the previous lesson I intended to include the zip code table look-up function but forgot to include it. This short lesson will address just that routine. If you are creating a look-up form a zip code database based on city, the return value will most likely include more than one result. For…
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Tutorial: Lesson Thirteen Contact Mgt App Controlling Data Entry
Hello everyone It’s Labor Day and I hope all are having fun. Today’s lesson is about controlling data entry on the form’s you create for your application. An important aspect in program design is controlling the data entry process for the end user. Regardless of how attractive a form may be, if the data entry…
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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…
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Tutorial: Lesson Ten Contact App Using Memo Fields
Today’s lesson looks at the difference between standard memo fields and rich text memo fields and the xbasic code required to extract data from either. We will also examine the process for controlling object properties on the screen and how you can use those properties as a means of branching code. A standard memo field…
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Tutorial: Lesson 9 Contact App Field Rules
Hello Everyone In the last training session I said we would discuss the memo entry process and the differences between a standard memo field and a rich text memo field. As I was setting up this lesson, I noticed there were several things that needed to be done before we could actually do that. Alpha…
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Tutorial : Lesson eight controlling data entry with forms
Hello everyone Today we will discuss the various types of forms available for data entry into Alpha Software. Typically when you design your application and you build your tables and sets you will bind your forms to your set or tables and use those for data entry . Alpha software provides additional methods for creating…
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Tutorial: Lesson Seven Contact App On Fetch Event
Hello everyone Today we are discussing four separate topics. Each of these topics are used to create and manage a new list object on our application. Table layout and design On Fetch Event Getting records from an external database Building a list object If we look at the structure of the People table, we see…
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