• A Procedure for Building Complex Expressions
• Benefits of Viewing Xbasic
• Closing a Dialog Box
• Code Editor File Functions
• Code Editor Functions
• Creating a Low Resolution Viewfile
• Creating and Programming Hotspots with Xbasic
• Ending the AlphaSports Application
• Global User Defined Functions
• Learning Xbasic - Using Xbasic with SQL Tables
• Opening the Default Form or Browse
• Other Code Editor Functions
• Referring to Form and Browse Objects
• Specifying Images in the Data
• Testing if a Form or Browse is Already Open
• Thread Example
• Trapping Other Events
• Trapping Tab Control Events
• Trapping the Change Event
• Understanding Functions
• User Settings
• Using AlphaDAO with Xbasic
• Using the Delimiter
• Using the Thread UI_Disable Property
• Using Xbasic to Control Access to a Form
• Using Xbasic to Create Queries
• Variable Scope
• Xbasic methods for the HTML and HTMLHOST Xdialog Commands

 

User Settings

Description

Alpha Anywhere stores certain user settings (specified in View > Settings) in the system registry database under the init key (which is relative to the root key.

You can find these settings in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alpha Software directory in the Registry Editor. Users are discouraged from directly modifying the system registry. Instead, use the REGISTRY.LOAD_SETTINGS() and REGISTRY.SAVE_SETTINGS() functions in your desktop applications to read and write settings in Alpha Anywhere using Xbasic.

The following example shows how you can set the Password field on the Email Settings tab of the View Settings dialog:

'initialize the UserSettings variable
UserSettings.dummy = ""
REGISTRY.LOAD_SETTINGS("Init",UserSettings)
UserSettings.email.client_password = "MyNewPassword"
REGISTRY.SAVE_SETTINGS("Init",UserSettings)

Limitations

Desktop Applications Only