Quick Guide to Topics
Tutorials | |
A tutorial that introduces you to the major features and functions of Alpha Five. | |
Action Scripting is an easy, graphical, way to create scripts in Alpha Five to automate your applications and customize their behavior. | |
A tutorial that introduces you to building applications with Xbasic. | |
An in-depth description of the design and programming techniques used to create the AlphaSports sample database. | |
A tutorial that introduces you to building dialogs and applications with Xdialog. | |
An explanation of the basic techniques required to build web applications with Alpha Five. | |
An explanation of the techniques used to build the AlphaSportsWeb application. | |
An introduction to Xbasic programming for applications that use back-end SQL compatible databases. | |
User Guide | |
How to use Alpha Five, set environmental variables, create databases, forms, browses, reports, operations, etc. | |
Overview of and how to use Netmailer for bulk emailing. | |
How to use the Web Component Builder to create web-enabled database applications. | |
References | |
Theory of operation, description of database objects (i.e. tables, records, fields, sets, indexes, queries, forms, browses, reports, etc.) and their methods, important functions. | |
Descriptions of the various Actions available through Action Scripting. | |
A list of the Xbasic command statements. | |
A list of the Xbasic operators. | |
Xdialog language directives, operators, commands, controls, genies. | |
The syntax of Xdialog controls. | |
The important functions that all Xbasic programmers should be able to use. | |
Reference lists of families of functions and methods. | |
Descriptions of Xbasic methods. | |
Descriptions of Xbasic functions. | |
Answers to frequently asked questions. | |
What's New | |
A description of the features and functions of Alpha Five Version 8. | |