The Xbasic Programming Environment

Description

Xbasic is Alpha Anywhere's programming language. You use Xbasic to create scripts. Scripts can be run in several different ways. A Global Script can be run from the Control Panel by simply double clicking on it, or clicking the "Run" button.

Other scripts are attached to objects and are run automatically when an event takes place. For example, a script might be attached to a button on a form. The script will run when the button is pressed. In this case the script is attached to the button's OnPush event. Or, a script might be attached to a form's "OnSave" event. In this case, the script will be executed whenever a record in the form is saved. See the Field Rule Events and Object Events for more details on the various Alpha Anywhere events.