Tag: lesson session
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King James Bible Reader Lesson 1: the Basics
Hello Everyone In creating our new lesson I decided to design this lesson as if the audience knows nothing about database applications in general and specifically Alpha 5 as a development platform. With that said, lets get started. Alpha Software defines itself as an ‘Enterprise relational database management system for planning, creating and distributing database…
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King James Bible Reader Lesson Plan Overview
Hello everyone First let me say there was not much interest in the Powerball Generator game so I am ending that lesson series and starting a new one. If you have been following the powerball lessons and want answers to specific questions, contact me at NLawson@cdc-TakeCharge.com and I will be happy to try to help.…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 7 Error Trapping
Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will cover three topics; Error Trapping and how to handle errors Restricting data entry based on data values stored in a table. Conditional Object as a means of form layout control. The form we will be using for our demonstration today are the Take Message form and the Administrator form Let’s…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 5 Changing Properties with xBasic
Hello everyone If you watched the above video, you saw an example of changing object properties on a form using xBasic code. We have discussed this before using a more complex system to control object properties so now I want to show you a simple method for doing the same. Remember from our previous discussion…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 3 Object Properties
Hello Everyone Today we will examine the Log In button on our Sign in form. This code is an excellent example of managing object properties and their methods. Watch the above video to get the overview of what is being done and how it works then proceed with this lesson. In the video I talk…
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Writing xBasic Lesson 1 Overview:
Hello everyone. Today we are starting a new lesson session on writing xBasic code and how it compares to Alpha Software’s Action scripting and high level commands. The video below shows the tutorial application provided by Alpha Software called ‘It’s for You’. We will use this tutorial as a guide and in the process make…
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Tutorial: Lesson Seven Contact App On Fetch Event
Hello everyone Today we are discussing four separate topics. Each of these topics are used to create and manage a new list object on our application. Table layout and design On Fetch Event Getting records from an external database Building a list object If we look at the structure of the People table, we see…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 