Tag: Desktop Software
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PC Desktop: Controlling Browse Data Views in a One to Many Set
Hello Everyone For those of you who have been following along, you know I have devoted many articles to presenting and controlling data in list views. Today we will look at the more traditional Browse Data Views in a one to many set. For the purpose of this lesson we will be looking at our…
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PC Desktop: Note Organizer KeyList_Build function
Hello Everyone Today I will focus on a very cool function in Alpha Software called KeyList_Build() and to do so, I will be demonstrating it’s use in our upgraded Note Organizer Module. Below is a short video which shows the keylist_build function in action. Please watch the video to see how it works then continue…
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PC Desktop: Note Organizer Search functions using form objects and or xDialog
Hello Everyone, At the end of our last session I said we would look at our Search feature on our new File Manager, but in preparing I realized I already have a session devoted to that exact subject. The link below will take you to the original blog session if you wish to see it…
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PC Desktop: Building List Dynamically
Hello Everyone If you read yesterdays blog entry I showed how to add values to a drop down control from another drop down control. The example was simple in design and required a basic understanding of list objects. Today I will cover Advanced procedures for building list dynamically. To do this we will look at…
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Adding Values to a Dynamic Dropdown List using xBasic
Hello everyone This session is a request from another programmer looking for some assistance. He wants to build a drop down control using xBasic and populate the values from another control which may be a database look up or some other type of list control. Typically you would use the object properties on the form…
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PC Desktop: Application Launch Bar
Hello Everyone. Today we are looking at a new feature for our PC Desktop which is a Launch Bar. Now throughout the history of Windows Desktop many Launch bars have been created, tried and forgotten; so why bother. Well I created this launch bar in response to customer feedback from people trying my new desktop…
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Object Events: Where do I put my code?
Hello Everyone If you have been following along, you know I write a lot of object code on forms rather than putting code in the code library. I was recently asked; How do I know what object should get what code? This is a fair question and deserves a look. To start with lets look…
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PC Desktop: Tape Calculator – Changing Text formatting with xBasic.
Hello Everyone Today we are going to look at how you can change text formatting on the fly using xBasic code. To do this we will examine the Tape Calculator we created for our new desktop. You can see from the image, the calculator has all the standard buttons for a calculator as well as…
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PC Desktop: ToDo Manager
Hello everyone. Hope the Holiday season is going well for all of you. Today we are looking at the ToDo manager and how it relates to our Start menu and File Manager. As you can see from the above image, clicking the Direct Access Button in the top tool bar builds a menu system in…
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PC Desktop: Email Account Manager
Hello Everyone, It’s been a while and I do apologize, but sometimes life gets in the way of life and I for one believe you should go with the flow. Today we are looking at the Email Account Manager and the code for attaching single or multiple files to an email. First, lets watch this…
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