• A Conditional Object Example
• About Forms and Browses
• Accented Characters
• Adding Users from the Desktop
• Changing Custom Menus and Toolbars at Runtime
• Circular Tabbing on a Form
• Creating a Maximized Application with a Menu
• Creating Alpha Anywhere Help Text
• Creating Alpha Anywhere Help Text - AlphaSports
• Creating and Assigning a Startup Form
• Creating and Using a Conditional Object
• Creating Custom Menus
• Creating Menu Forms
• Creating the InvoiceItemsPie Form
• Creating Wallpaper for Your Application
• Design a Custom Menu
• Designing an Application for Alpha Five Runtime
• Displaying a Form as a Dialog Box
• Displaying the Main Menu
• Dynamic Internationalization for Desktop Application Forms and Reports
• Editing Objects
• Editing System Menus
• Editing System Toolbars
• Filter Builder
• Find by Form
• Find by Key
• Find Text
• Follow Changes and Enters
• Form Editor Control Library
• Form Events
• Form Headers and Footers
• Form Layout - Mouse Cursor Property
• Genies
• Linking to a External Help File Topic
• Managing Style Properties
• Methods for Opening Forms and Browses
• Modal and Modeless Data Entry
• Navigation
• Object Explorer
• OnKey Events on Forms
• Placing a Conditional Object
• Placing a Control on a Form
• Placing Bitmaps on a Form
• Placing Hotspots
• Placing Hyperlinks, Mail-to Links, and FTP Links on a Form
• Placing Lines and Frames
• Placing Subforms
• Prompting for User Input
• Put a Button on a Form to Open Another Form Showing Selected Records
• Put a Button on a Form to Send a Customized Email
• Query
• Querying and Sorting Child Tables on a Form
• Quick Import for a Form or Browse
• Reading From and Writing To the Data Dictionary
• Relative Addresses
• Running a Script with a Function Key
• Sales People Form
• Selecting and Opening a Form
• Selecting the Appropriate View of Your Data
• Setting Form Properties
• Setting Form Restrictions
• Setting the Tab Order
• Specifying a Window
• Startup Form Design Examples
• Synchronizing Form and Embedded Browse Record Navigation
• The Customer Information Form
• The CustQueryReport Form
• The Edit_Customer_Info Form
• The Inventory Form
• The Invoice Form
• The InvoiceItemsPie Form
• The InvoiceReportMenu Form
• The Items Form
• The Main Menu Form
• The Vendors Form
• The Window Bar
• Understanding Levels in a Form
• Using a Dialogasa Search Form
• Using a Form
• Using the Form Editor
• Using the Navigator
• Using the New Form Genie

About Forms and Browses

Description

Much of the ease of use and simplicity of Alpha Anywhere comes from the fact that forms and browses are bound to tables or sets. A form allows you to view a single record from a table. A browse displays multiple records. Schematically, they are illustrated below.

You can switch back and forth between the form and browse views of your table by clicking F8. When creating a form or browse, you can select to display:

• all or a subset of the available fields

• values (calculated fields) that appear to be fields but are in fact the result of an calculation based on real field values

• a selected subset of the table's records (based on the form's filter expression)

• the selected records in a new order (based on the form's order expression)

When you are developing an application with Xbasic, the close association with a table or set means that:

• in Design mode you can click View > Dragdrop list and see a list of fields that can be displayed

• you can dynamically change the form's or browse's filter and order expressions

• you can dynamically add additional filter and order expressions

• you can read from and write to any field in any record

For more information about forms and browses:

• How to refer to form and browse objects

  Referring to Form and Browse Objects

• How to open a form or browse

  Opening the Default Form or Browse Xbasic Methods for Opening Forms and Browses Summary of Methods for Opening Forms and Browses

• Test to see if a form or browse is open

  Testing if a Form or Browse is Already Open

• Synchronizing a form and embedded browse

  Synchronizing Form and Embedded Browse Record Navigation

• Performing dynamic queries and sorts on the data that is displayed in a form's embedded browse.

  Querying and Sorting Child Tables on a Form

• Creating and using stylesheets

  Creating and Using Stylesheets

• Getting a pointer to the underlying table

  Form or Browse Table Pointer

• Form and browse functions and methods

  Form Functions and Methods Browse Functions and Methods New Methods V10 Window Functions and Methods User Interaction UI Functions

• Rich text fields

  Rich Text Overview Working with Rich Text Fields Working with Conditional Rich Text Fields Working with RTF Data RTF Functions and Methods

• Help text and bubble help

  Creating Alpha Anywhere Help Text Bubble Help Help Functions

• Form and browse security

  Object Level Security