Tag: Programming

Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson Three

Dec 17, 2012

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in Changing Object Property Values, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Init, On Push, PowerBall, Using Query’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone As I mentioned in the last post we would discuss how to build a data analyzer for our Powerball Game. The principles we will discuss go beyond our game and can be used in all types of database applications. When designing an application for a business regardless of the development platform or the…
Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson Two

Dec 11, 2012

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in Changing Object Property Values, Form Design, How To, Object Method, On Event, On Push, PowerBall, Randomize Numbers, Using goto label, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello everyone. Today’s lesson is about using the Rand() function in Alpha Software to generate the random numbers needed for our Powerball generator. Powerball rules are you need to pick 5 numbers from 1 to 59 for the white ping pong balls and pick one red ball number which ranges from 1 to 35. If…
Powerball Random Number Generator Lesson 1

Dec 6, 2012

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in Form Design, Games, How To, PowerBall, Tables and Sets

Hello everyone Well it’s been a while since my last post but as you all know the holidays can be time-consuming. Now that Thanks Giving is out-of-the-way; (mine was great I hope yours was as well) and Christmas shopping is finished ‘whew!!’ I have time to work again. As stated in the video, we have…
Writing xBasic Lesson 8 Controlling Code Flow with object Properties

Nov 16, 2012

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in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Fetch, Field Rules, Form Design, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, Object Explorer, Object Method, On Arrive, ON Change, On Event, On Push, Operations, Progressive Lookups, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone Today’s video looks at how you can user property values on objects to modify or change the actions of an on push event. Also we demonstrate the high level append operation and setting a field type to Record List Edit Combo Box. Watch the video then continue with this blog lesson for the…
Writing xBasic Lesson 7 Error Trapping

Nov 10, 2012

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in Conditional Object, Form Design, Handling Errors, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
Writing xBasic Lesson 6

Nov 5, 2012

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in Form Design, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, Progressive Lookups, Record List Combo, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and Tricks

Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will look at controlling the sate of objects on a form using various xBasic methods. Knowing in advance what you expect from the form objects helps you write efficient and compact code. Watch the short video above to see what we mean. First lets look at the changes we made to…
Writing xBasic Lesson 5 Changing Properties with xBasic

Oct 17, 2012

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in Changing Object Property Values, Form Design, How To, Messaging Software, Object Explorer, On Event, On Fetch, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
Writing xBasic Lesson 4 Using Variables to Control Data Views

Oct 15, 2012

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in Form Design, How To, List Objects, Messaging Software, On Event, On Push, XBasic Tips and Tricks, xDialog

Hello Everyone Today we are going to examine the code on the Review Message Form of our TC Message Center application. On this form there are two text boxes which display the current state of the data view and also are used to process changes made by the user to change the data view. At…
Writing xBasic Lesson 3 Object Properties

Oct 4, 2012

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in Desktop Application, Form Design, How To, Messaging Software, Object Explorer, Object Method, XBasic Tips and Tricks

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…
Writing xBasic Lesson 2 Dialog Boxes

Oct 3, 2012

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in Action Scripts, Desktop Application, Form as Dialog, Form Design, How To, Messaging Software, On Event, On Push, xDialog

Hello Everyone As stated in the last lesson, we will discuss the creation of the dialog box which displays when you click ‘Read Me’ on the Sign In form. The video above gives a quick overview of the various ways to write the code to build a dialog box and I encourage you to watch…