Tag: Alpha Software
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Tutorial: Lesson Six Contact App Progressive Lookup
Hello Everyone. Today we will look in greater detail about form design and add some new components to our People form. As we discussed in the previous lesson, the form in the default app is disjointed, cluttered and awkward to use. Look at our new form below to see the differences. This new form introduces…
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Tutorial: Lesson: Five Contact App Passing data values to the default browser
Hello everyone. Today we are going to discuss how to supercharge your Contact application by including Web Interface. We will discuss how to pass data values stored in a local table to the users default browser performing search’s and queries. For this example, we use Google maps to show how it works. On our original…
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Tutorial: Contact Management App Lesson Three
Hello everyone, and welcome back As we mentioned yesterday we will be discussing how to send a report to an external file viewer. First, lets look at the print preview code which is attached to the original print preview report button on the main menu. When you look at the on push event for the…
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Tutorial: Lesson One Building a Contact Management Application
Hello everyone, we are starting a programming lesson on how to build a Contact Management Application is Alpha Software. We will be using version 10 of their development platform. First Lesson we are going to show how to build a complete application using the free Contact App distributed with Alpha Software v10 Each Lesson will…
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Creating custom Super Controls
Hello Everyone Today we are going to discuss Super Controls in Alpha Software. Super controls in Alpha Software are cool and bring a professional and modern look to your application. However, they don’t necessarily meet the needs of all developers; also, for developers using older versions of Alpha5 these super controls simply are not available.…
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Displaying table data in a bubble help window.
Hello, Today we are going to discuss alternate ways to display data from an external table in Alpha Software. Typically, if you need data displayed you would create a form or browse view displaying the data from the table you want. Let’s say you have a form open and you want to display data from…
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AlphaDAO: Using values from a Spreadsheet in your Alpha Software Application.
Many small businesses use spreadsheets for their daily data processing. While it is OK, it does not provide the business with proper data analysis and trend forecasting. For that, they need a database. Alpha Software has easy procedures for extracting and using data in a spreadsheet eliminating the need for double entry, thus giving the…
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Adding a Conditional Object to a Form in Alpha Software
One of the nice features of Alpha Software is it’s ability to control the display area of a form. The feature we will discuss today is the conditional object.The purpose of the conditional object is to allow the developer to show objects conditionally. For example, if you are creating payment screens, you would not need…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 