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Welcome to Alpha Five V9

Welcome to Alpha Five V9.

Videos of Selected New Features

Active-Link Tables

Overview

Creating Active Link Tables

Creating a Single Active-Link Table

Creating Multiple Active-Link Tables

Behind the Scene on Active-Link Table Definitions

Editing an Active-Link Table Definition

Refreshing an Active-Link Table

Refreshing Data in an Embedded Browse

Refreshing Active-Link Table Definitions

Duplicating an Active-Link Table

Creating an Active-Link Definition using Xbasic

Understanding Local and Server-Side Queries

Query Optimizer

How the Query Optimizer Analyzes Xbasic Filter/Order Expressions

<Tbl>.query_create() and <tbl>.query_run() Methods

Querying Active-Link Tables from the User Interface

Query Genie for Server-side Queries

Two-way Editing of Filter Expressions

Find by Key for Server-side Queries

Understanding Record Locking in Active-Link Tables

Optimistic Record Locking in Forms and Browse Layouts

Prompting for Username and/or Password when Opening an Active-Link Table

Oracle Sequences

Active-Link Tables on MySQL Databases

Active-Link Tables - Entering New Records

Tracing SQL

Methods for Active-Link Tables

SuperControls

Overview of New Supercontrol Types

Inserting a Supercontrol on a Form

Placing a Supercontrol on the Toolbox

Editing a Supercontrol

HTML Form Supercontrol

Field Bindings

Property Bindings

Xbasic Event Handlers

Accessing the DOM in Your Event Handler Scripts

Alpha Five HTML Controls

The Accordion Control

Editing an Accordion Control using the Genie

Accordion Control Events

Setting and Getting Open Panes using Xbasic

The Tab Control

Tab Control Events

Setting and Getting the Current Tab Pane using Xbasic

The Conditional Block Control

The Condition Control

The Dynamic Content Region Control

The Dynamic Select Control

The Alpha Five Image Control

Hyperlink Supercontrol

Record Navigator Supercontrol

Embedded Xdialog Supercontrol

Rules for Embedded Xdialogs

Report Preview Supercontrol

Toolbar Buttons

Clock Supercontrol

Clock Events

Calendar Supercontrol

Date Ranges

Disabled Dates

Flagged Dates

Events

PDF Viewer Supercontrol

Web Content Supercontrol

HTML Content Supercontrol

Form Layouts

Supercontrols

Static HTML Object

Placing a Static HTML Object on a Layout

Placing Fields and Expressions in the Static HTML Object

Suppressing Blank Lines in HTML Text

Date Picker, Date/Time Picker and Time Picker Smart Fields

Inserting GUIDs into Fields

HTML Bubble Help

Hyperlinks in Bubble Help

Static Bitmap Objects - Bubble Help

User Defined Smart Fields

Capsule Border Style

Improved Anchor Toolbar

Remembering Last Run Query

User Defined Formatting

New Format Options

Default Forms

Browse Layouts

Browse - Smart Fields

Browse - Image Fields

Browse - Bubble Help

Browse Vertical Scrollbar

Column Ellipses

User Defined Smart Fields

Report Layouts

Interactive Reporting

Report Event Context

Useful Information for Interactive Report Event Handlers

Reports - Detecting Runtime Calculated Field

Arguments in Layout Filters

Using Arguments in Run-time Filters

Printing Argument Values in Layouts  

Save Reports as Excel Files

Editing Layouts

Dynamic Guidelines

Browse Controls

Summary of Browse Controls

Placing a Browse Control in a Browse Layout

Editing the Code for a Browse Control

'Open Form' Browse Control

'Print/Preview Layout' Browse Control

'Run an Operation' Browse Control

'Generic Action' Browse Control

'Image' Browse Control

'Text' Browse Control

Field Rules

Table Lookups

Customizing the 'Enter a new record...' Hyperlink

Miscellaneous Improvements

Import/Export Connection Strings

SQL Query Genie

Exporting from Alpha Five to SQL Databases

Exploring the Target Database

More on Arguments

Importing from SQL Databases

HTML Memo Fields

Ambient Font

Converting Memo Field Types

Printing HTML Memo Fields

UUID Fields

Using Xbasic to Handle Events on HTML Pages - Xbasic Scripting

Using Built-in Alpha Five Images in Locally Displayed HTML  

Script Editor

Crisper, Cleaner Look

Web Applications

AJAX

The a5_AJAX_Callback() Function

The a5_AJAX_Form() Function

Watch Videos Demonstrating AJAX Examples

Application Server Performance

gzip Compression

Persistent Connections

Pipelining

Popup Calendar

Grid Linker

Using Named Connection Strings in Grid and Dialog Components

Publishing Applications - Path Alias

Search and replace component styles

Using Built-in Alpha Five Images in Web Pages

Web Publishing Profiles

New Profile Genie

Import Profile from ISP

Web Security Updates

New Page and Folder Permissions

Permission for a Specific Page or File

Security by File Type or Extension

All Files in Folder

File Types in a Folder

Mapped Tables

New In Xdialog

Xdialog - Header sections

Xdialog Genie

Embedded Browses on Xdialogs

Embedded Statusbar

Stylesheets for Xdialog

{Title} Command

Auto-complete Input Controls

User-Defined Dock Panels

Miscellaneous Xdialog Functions

New Xbasic Features

New GUID Data Type

Dependency Mapper

Printer and Screen Capabilities

Determine the Version Number of an EXE or DLL

Layouts Implement .Eval() Method

CSS Class

Table Cursors

Xbasic Functions and Methods

Summary of New Functions and Methods

Detailed Description of New Functions

Parsing XML Documents with Xbasic

Using the Xbasic XML Parser - A Tutorial

Running Queries against the XML Data

Element Queries

Attribute Queries

XML Parser Expression Reserved Words

Marking Elements in the XML Tree

XML Helper Functions

AlphaMailer - An on-line E-mailing Service

Accessing AlphaMailer

Sign Up for AlphaMailer Account

Configuring your Computer to use an Existing AlphaMailer Account

AlphaMailer Lists

Creating a New AlphaMailer List

 Processing Local Remove Requests

Summary of Steps to Create a New Mailing in AlphaMailer