Xbasic and the Basics Duo - V9 Desktop

 Alpha Five Made Easy

The Basics and More for V9 Platinum (and Standard) editions

What's inside . . .

• Everything you need to know about Databases and Tables
• How to set up Field Rules and Data Entry
• The principles of Sets and Mapped Tables
• How to create outstanding Forms and Browses
• How to wow your customers with Reports, Letters and Labels
• What you need to know about Operations
• Creating fancy and simple Buttons, Hyperlinks and Bubble Help
• How to Find, Sort and Filter your data
• Use Alpha Five for E-Mailing and Faxing and AlphaMailer for easy mass mailings
• Enhance your application with Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Listboxes and Tree Controls
• Add outstanding Graphics to your database
• Use Action Scripting to point and click your way to Xbasic
• Get user input with Xdialog and create Custom Menus
• Use Alpha Five’s easy design features with SQL databases

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 Check out the Table of Contents and then take a look at some sample pages . . .

  Lesson 4:   Forms & Browses
  Lesson 5:   Reports
  Lesson 10: Images

Book Specifications:
Size: 8 1/2 X 11
No of pages: 534
Cover: Heavy duty laminate.
Binding: Spiral Binding

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Alpha Five: Xbasic for Everyone 

by Dr. Peter Wayne

What's inside . . .

• Discussion of terms, tables, sets, field rules and Action Scripting
• Understanding Variables and Constants
• Getting Input and Output
• Understanding Variable scoping and Namespaces
• Discussion on Functions, Methods and Properties
• Using the Interactive Window, Debugger
• Writing scripts for Events
• Understanding Table Pointers
• What you need to know about ordering with Indexes and Queries, Fetching records
• Xbasic for Xdialog, Objects, Form Properties
• Editing users and groups for Security
• Adding memos and external files
• Creating spreadsheets with Crosstabs and Exports
• Creating a "month-at-a glance" calendar
• Using Xbasic in web applications
• Developing your own Object type
• Using Xbasic with Javascript, AJAX and XML, ADO, ODBC and ActiveX
• Upsizing your database with SQL
• Real life examples for setting up an Aged Accounts Receivable and preventing Duplicate Records, creating Time sheets, adding a Running Balance, a Detail General Ledger and an Audit Trail to your financial reports, as well as scanning in Insurance Card data—and more!

Check out the Table of Contents and then take a look at some sample pages. . .

Chapter 6 - Getting Input and Output

Chapter 25 - Creating a Detail General Ledger

Chapter 30 - Xbasic control of Form Properties

 

Book Specifications:
Size: 8 1/2 X 11
No of pages: 456
Cover: Heavy duty laminate.
Binding: Spiral Binding

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 The 2008 edition was written for Alpha Five Version 8, but, is also applicable to Version 9 and 10.. The only difference is that the later versions have additional features not covered in this book, such as Active Link tables and the Alpha Five Javascript library.