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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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Tutorial: Lesson 9 Contact App Field Rules
Hello Everyone In the last training session I said we would discuss the memo entry process and the differences between a standard memo field and a rich text memo field. As I was setting up this lesson, I noticed there were several things that needed to be done before we could actually do that. Alpha…
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Tutorial: Contact Management App Lesson Three
Hello everyone, and welcome back As we mentioned yesterday we will be discussing how to send a report to an external file viewer. First, lets look at the print preview code which is attached to the original print preview report button on the main menu. When you look at the on push event for the…
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