Tag: software
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Incorporating xBasic into Form & HTML Document Design: 12
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in bin_to_rtf, Changing Object Property Values, character conversion, Conditional Object, Contact Management Application, Converting Data Types, Declaring Variables on a Form, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, file.to_string, Form Design, Form Load Method, How To, HTML memo field, List Object, List Objects, Memo Fields, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, rtf_to_html, SuperControls, Table Open Method, tablecount, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, XBasic Tips and TricksHello everyone Today we will be looking at further enhancements to our Desktop App by building a custom Report Viewer. Looks interesting right. Well to see it in action watch this short video then follow along to see how it is done. I hope you enjoyed the video. Lets get started. As I mentioned in…
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Incorporating xBasic into Design 03
Hello everyone. Today we will continue our lesson of Incorporation xBasic in Design and will look at another simple application I wrote. A Recipe Catalog. Our focus today is controlling data entry using xBasic. Often when a form is created it is for a single purpose; presenting a menu, data entry, query views or record…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson6
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in Changing Object Property Values, Desktop Application, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, Form Design, Form Load Method, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, How To, List Objects, Object Method, On Event, On Fetch, On Init, On Push, Programming A Chess Game, Record List Combo, Table Open Method, Tree View, Using If Else if, Using Query’s, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksHello Everyone Today we will be looking at the opening book for our chess program and the code for all the functions related to the opening book. Before we begin please take a moment to watch this short video which demonstrated the use of the opening book and the new features we are adding to…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson5
Hello Everyone Today we are looking at the changes to our code affecting WhitesBoard and BlacksBoard. These two routines provide a list of each piece on the board which is available to move and where it can move to. The changes I made process these list to create values needed in scoring the game as…
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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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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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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…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 