Tag: Graphics
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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…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 2
Hello Everyone In our first lesson we looked at our chess piece and position table and the code for each square on our board. As I mentioned the table may change and it has. I will review the new structure and reason for the change below. We also looked at moving the piece image from…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software
Hello everyone Today we embark on the most ambitious project to date. Creating a Chess program that thinks. Now you may be saying why bother there are plenty of chess programs and they are a dime a dozen. The answer is a chess program will use Classes Array’s Variables Functions Programming Loops Tables Form Objects…
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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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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: Using a Conditional Object
Hello everyone Once again, we are going to look at how to better improve form and function in our application. This time we will look at how the use of a conditional object helps in both of those areas as well as controlling data entry. Alpha software says this about conditional objects; A conditional object…
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PC Desktop New Search Features:
Hello Everyone Searching the hard drive for files and folders should be simple. On our desktop we will have a link from our Clock Calendar Menu to take the user directly to the File Search Utility and there will be a link on the File Manager as well. When the Search Utility loads it will be…
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Having Fun with Graphics Lesson 5: Bar Graphs
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in Changing Object Property Values, Converting Data Types, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Form Design, Form Load Method, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, List Objects, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, On Timer Event, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we are continuing our lesson plan on controlling graphics in Alpha Software just using objects on a form and xBasic code. As I was preparing the CAD application lesson I thought of a more practical application for managing objects and graphics on the screen which is building a bar graph. Bar Graphs…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 