Tag: Programming
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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 Eighteen Contact Mgt App Exporting notes
Hello Everyone This is our last lesson in the series; building a better and more robust Contact Management App in Alpha Software. Our next series of lessons will focus on the xBasic language Alpha Software uses as it’s programming language and contrast it with the high level action scripts and table operations. The short video…
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Tutorial: Lesson Seventeen Contact Mgt App using For Each Next…
Hello Everyone Today’s lesson will review the actions available for the user on our pop up xDialog box showing notes and reminders for our focus date. The video above shows the code for each of the Note Organizer actions but we are going to examine more closely the function called For Each Next.. Personally this…
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Tutorial: Lesson Fourteen Contact Mgt App ZipCode Tbl Lookup Dialog
Hello everyone In the previous lesson I intended to include the zip code table look-up function but forgot to include it. This short lesson will address just that routine. If you are creating a look-up form a zip code database based on city, the return value will most likely include more than one result. For…
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Tutorial: Lesson Thirteen Contact Mgt App Controlling Data Entry
Hello everyone It’s Labor Day and I hope all are having fun. Today’s lesson is about controlling data entry on the form’s you create for your application. An important aspect in program design is controlling the data entry process for the end user. Regardless of how attractive a form may be, if the data entry…
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Tutorial: Lesson Twelve Contact Mgt App Advanced xDialog
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Hello again. Before we begin our new lesson, lets take a moment to look back at what we have accomplished so far. Below is the application before we started to modify it. Navigation bar to the left and a big blue space filling the screen. Now lets look at where we are so far. We…
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Tutorial: Lesson Eleven Sending Rich Text data to an External Email Program
Hello everyone Today our lesson will center on using the newly created memo writer as an E-Mail writer and exporting the users memo to their favorite external email program. Last week we created our Note Writer (see below) and showed how to extract the data from the memo field and display the contents in a…
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Tutorial: Lesson Ten Contact App Using Memo Fields
Today’s lesson looks at the difference between standard memo fields and rich text memo fields and the xbasic code required to extract data from either. We will also examine the process for controlling object properties on the screen and how you can use those properties as a means of branching code. A standard memo field…
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