Tag: Desktop Software
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Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 6
We have created our Application and reviewed the code and today I moved it to the OneDrive Folder and opened it on my Surface Pro4 Sorry for the quality of the image, but my Smart phone is older and has a low end camera. Even with that, it looks good on the screen. Now…
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Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4:Lesson 3 Data Entry, Set and Form Design
The course and history of programming has made business programs of like kind very equal. In the general layout look and workings of business programs one may appear to be slightly superior to another of kind yet when all is considered, the difference is not so great to say one application or program is greater…
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Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4:Lesson 2 Table and Set Creation
Welcome back Today as stated in the previous lesson I am going to show how to develop the tables for our Collectibles application. Now I know even the beginners know how to create a table in design mode so I won’t go over the very basic steps, rather we will look at the thought behind…
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Using Alpha Software to Program for the Surface Pro 4: Lesson 1
Hello everyone. I know I said we would do a project manager application next and we will soon. I have received my Surface Pro 4 and I thought it would be better to do a lesson on developing an app for the tablet. I already have an order from a customer who provides field service…
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Creating a Responsive HTML5 Website to work with Alpha Software
Hello everyone In our lesson on super controls I suggested we might be able to create web pages using the HTML memo field on a form in Alpha Software in conjunction with an activeX web component for viewing our design . If you are creating a Alpha Software Web Application then the HTML memo field…
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Incorporating xBasic into Form Design Writing scripts: 14
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in Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, How To, List Object, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Push, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, Table Open Method, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone. Today we are going to look at using Alpha Software scripts and how they fit into the program design. If you have been following along, you know most of the code I write is attached to the various objects on a form and or the form itself. There are times however when an…
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Alpha Software on Win 10 Desktop
Hello everyone Well Win 10 is here and I survived the upgrade. Our desktop looks good and so far is behaving well. The screen you are looking at is on an old desktop machine which was a custom built box running Win XP. This required a complete install of the Win 10 image from the…
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Incorporating xBasic into Form Design: 13
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in batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Custom Super Controls, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, OnDepart, Progressive Lookups, Radio Object, SuperControls, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using goto label, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialogHello everyone Today we will look at additional features I have added to our Desktop app. In our last session we added the Report viewer for the data tables included in our Desktop app and today we are adding an external file viewer and an enhanced run dialog. Lets start with the External File Viewer.…