Tag: Alpha Software
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Incorporating xBasic into Design 04
Hello everyone Today we will continue from the last session looking at our Recipe Builder application. We will start this session with copying data from a website and adding it to the recipe memo field on our form. To accomplish this we are using the function clipboard.get_data() In the not to distant past many websites…
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Incorporating xBasic into Design 03
Hello everyone. Today we will continue our lesson of Incorporation xBasic in Design and will look at another simple application I wrote. A Recipe Catalog. Our focus today is controlling data entry using xBasic. Often when a form is created it is for a single purpose; presenting a menu, data entry, query views or record…
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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: 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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 