• Addin Manager
• Adding a Global Image to Your Workspace
• Adding Tables or Sets to a Workspace
• Aliases
• Appending Selected Records from another Table
• Attaching a Library to the Current Workspace
• Automatic Recovery of Indexes
• Backup Workspace
• Cannot Refresh Workspace Problem
• Clearing the Record Filter
• Compacting the Workspace
• Creating a Workspace
• Creating Periodic Backups
• Disallow Edits
• Dropping Tables or Sets from a Workspace
• Exporting Selected Records from a Table
• Expression Library
• Filtering Records to Include Multiple Field Values
• Font Equation Genie
• Global Scripts
• Go to Record Number
• List View Genie
• Managing Addins
• Marking and Deleting Selected Records in a Table
• Moving Selected Records to another Table
• Multi-User Architectures
• Network Optimization
• Numbering Child Records
• One-Step Backup
• Optimizing Performance of Advanced Record Lists
• Pack Tables
• Preparing a Runtime Installation to use a Shadow Database
• Record List - Combo Box Table Lookup
• Record Locking
• Renaming Workspaces
• Restore a Workspace Backup
• Select Workspace Dialog
• Send Tables, Sets, and Workspace
• Send Workspace
• Sets vs Tables
• Sorting Records
• Testing if a New Record Was Created
• Updating Selected Records in a Table
• Using a Lookup to Set the Current Record
• Using a Query to Find a Record
• Using Addin Variables to Create a Multi-Database Application
• Using an Index to Find a Record
• Using Tables and Sets That are Not Part of a Database
• Using the New Table Set Genie
• Using the Shortcut Genie
• Using the Spell Check
• Using Transactions
• Working with Databases
• Workspace Specifications
• Zip Database
• Zip Tables, Sets, and Databases
• Zoom to Record

Managing Addins

Description

Background information and using the addin manager:

Background Information

An Addin is a special library of scripts and functions. Alpha Anywhere stores global scripts and functions in a library file (an .ALB file) of the same name as the Workspace file (the .ADB file).

Normally, the scripts and functions that you create in a Workspace are only available when that Workspace is open. If you have created a library of scripts and functions that you want to use when another workspace is open, you can attach the script library to that workspace (using the File, Workspace Properties command). Alpha Anywhere also allows you to compile the scripts and functions in a library into a special Compiled Script Library (which has an .AEX extension).

Like scripts and functions in an .alb file, a Compiled Script Library can also be attached to a Workspace (using the File, Workspace Properties command). However, unlike the scripts and functions in a .ALB file, a Compiled Script Library can be made into an Addin. The scripts and functions in an Addin are universally available, regardless of what Workspace is currently open. In effect, the scripts and functions in an Addin are "part of" Alpha Anywhere. To make a Compiled Script Library into an Addin, you simply copy the .AEX file into the "addins_installed" folder under the Alpha Anywhere program folder. In addition to the "addins_installed" folder, Alpha Anywhere also has an "addins_disabled" folder under the main Alpha Anywhere program folder. The .aex files in this folder are the Addins that have been temporarily disabled.

Using the Addin Manager

To open the Addin Manager dialog box, select the Tools > Addin Manager... command.

Alpha Anywhere displays the Addin Manager, showing both the currently installed Addins, and the disabled Addins. The installed Addins have a check in the box to their left.

Using this dialog you can easily install any disabled Addins, or disable any installed Addins. You do not need to restart Alpha Anywhere after changing the list of installed Addins.

Addins provide a powerful mechanism for developers to add new features to Alpha Anywhere itself.

Limitations

Desktop applications only. Not available in Community Edition.

See Also

• Compiling Scripts and Functions