Tag: Technology
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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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Programming Chess in Alpha Software: Lesson 3
Hello Everyone Today we will be looking at the process for capturing an opponents piece and the process for checking the opponents King. Also, we will need to readdress the Setup code to reflect the changes in our table grid. First, I now have a short video showing the game so far. Now it is…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software:Lesson 2
Hello Everyone In our first lesson we looked at our chess piece and position table and the code for each square on our board. As I mentioned the table may change and it has. I will review the new structure and reason for the change below. We also looked at moving the piece image from…
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Programming Chess in Alpha Software
Hello everyone Today we embark on the most ambitious project to date. Creating a Chess program that thinks. Now you may be saying why bother there are plenty of chess programs and they are a dime a dozen. The answer is a chess program will use Classes Array’s Variables Functions Programming Loops Tables Form Objects…
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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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Adding Values to a Dynamic Dropdown List using xBasic
Hello everyone This session is a request from another programmer looking for some assistance. He wants to build a drop down control using xBasic and populate the values from another control which may be a database look up or some other type of list control. Typically you would use the object properties on the form…
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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 