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    #31
    Re: New website with free Alpha components

    I know you are working on the site. Any idea when it will be debugged?
    Dave Mason
    [email protected]
    Skype is dave.mason46

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      #32
      Re: New website with free Alpha components

      Please tell us where it does not work and we will fix it. We fix bugs as they are found. As for re-hosting that is not so clear. I hope to have fast hosting with enough ram for the database within 45 days. As you know hosting is expensive so this is a major decision.

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        #33
        Re: New website with free Alpha components

        Sorry I can't be of much help there. I supply hosting for a lot of companies and Churches, but it is Linux only.
        I definitely understand the costs and most of the issues.
        Dave Mason
        [email protected]
        Skype is dave.mason46

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          #34
          Re: New website with free Alpha components

          Have tried to visit your website several times but it is always down.
          Has the project been shelved?

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            #35
            Re: New website with free Alpha components

            Hi John

            Yes and No. People did not seem too interested so we have not devoted much time to Alphasnip.

            The server has moved and we have been busy. (Lazy)

            Ashobiz.

            Some will be free, some will be sold.

            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/l.../ashobiz-2.a5w
            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/l...ashobiz-13.a5w
            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/l...ashobiz-24.a5w
            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/l...element/47.a5w

            We are working our way through about 400 of these they work realy well in Alpha.




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            Here is a couple of links that may be of interest.


            We are working with Alpha on a webinar

            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/d...login/test.a5w
            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...login_tab2.a5w

            Here is a demo of the viewbox.


            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...dashboard3.a5w

            These are fun with Google charts

            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...s_map_help.a5w
            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...a_blog/map.a5w

            A little work by guys who are training

            http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/rifqon/alphawatch/


            If you need any help drop me an email [email protected].

            All of this work is on a server in our Indonesian office. The work you see above was from trainess and undergraduate placements. The main core of the company is busy and it will be a month or so before things slow down.

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              #36
              Re: New website with free Alpha components

              This is some really great looking UI's. In my opinion, Alpha should dedicate some resources over the next few versions to improve upon an already great tool set by focusing some efforts on delivering a more polished front end out of the box. In terms of examples, this to me looks pretty darn good: http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/rifqon/alphawatch/

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                #37
                Re: New website with free Alpha components

                Thank you.

                As he got better he built this http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/rifqon/components2/

                We only play with these things in our spare time.

                Dave McCormack is trying hard to put together a series of webinars with give away CSS and help but we have been too busy.

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                  #38
                  Re: New website with free Alpha components

                  If you want to try something a little more bespoke look at

                  https://www.tripbuilderpro.com

                  [email protected]
                  demo1234

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                    #39
                    Re: New website with free Alpha components

                    My issue is and always has been simplicity. I'm not writing a single or even 2 or 3 applications where I can dedicate time and resources to the UI. That is one of the reasons I use a toolset like Alpha, so I can spend my time focusing on the application specific business logic. When all is said and done, rather than building 1 application I'll have 60 or so all unrelated. Because of that issue, the UI often takes the first hit as that is just the gravy which would be important if I were reselling my applications. Rather they are mostly for internal use for the company I work for. The CSS would have to be pretty tightly woven into Alpha in order to benefit me under these constraints.

                    I think the work you have done proves the concept that the ease of Alpha can be combined with a "nicer" front end, whether Alpha makes a determination that this should be integrated directly in the framework or left up to each individual user to put their own style on their apps is something I'm very curious to follow as time goes on.

                    Once again, great work. The stuff you are making looks really good and certainly I can see you've put a lot of time and effort into that portion of your application.

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                      #40
                      Re: New website with free Alpha components

                      I take your point and we are in the process of making a style sheet with saas.

                      http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/rifqon/components2/

                      Is the first incarnation as you can see we are not there yet.

                      I do think you can achieve it, we have 2 and a half programmers and one guy full time on styling. We have a girl who does nothing but the layout in photoshop. On top of this we have 2 testers who help with design. So if you followed our paradigm you would write half the code.


                      We are finding that time spent doing layout saves programming time.

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                        #41
                        Re: Community website to share ideas components and later style-sheets now on line

                        I am presently working on beefing up the Links page on IADN (http://iadn.com/links.a5w). What is the primary URL to your Alpha stuff so I can add it to the Links page?
                        Steve Wood
                        See my profile on IADN

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                          #42
                          Re: New website with free Alpha components

                          Originally posted by scrimej View Post
                          This is some really great looking UI's. In my opinion, Alpha should dedicate some resources over the next few versions to improve upon an already great tool set by focusing some efforts on delivering a more polished front end out of the box. In terms of examples, this to me looks pretty darn good: http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/rifqon/alphawatch/
                          They really do look great Michael! I agree with this sentiment as well Jeremy, I would love to see Alpha dedicate a little more time to the visual end of things. I know they have improved things with the new Alpha style, at least in terms of ease to make custom modifications to the UI appearance. It's okay for new projects but I find that moving from a legacy style like GrBlue to Alpha style is a bit of a challenge though.
                          Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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                            #43
                            Re: New website with free Alpha components

                            We have people who are learning. We train them in this way. The problem is we have no clear idea how to define the scope.

                            Again with the grid styling we tend to use templates and css, this makes moving from legacy components more difficult.

                            I would gladly define a popular group of controls and work our way through styling them.

                            Our idea has always been to combine style sheets with layout templates. We have started to play with building templates using the viewbox.

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                              #44
                              Re: New website with free Alpha components

                              Steve,

                              Thanks we will use Alphasnip.com. I will let you know when we are back online. (Alphasnip will redirect to datadrivensystems.co.uk/alphasnip)

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                                #45
                                Re: New website with free Alpha components

                                http://www.datadrivensystems.co.uk/alphasnip/

                                Hopefully, this link is working.

                                I will try to get a simple page for people to say what direction this Project should follow.

                                We will add some very simple little components.

                                You can type Alphasnip.com and we redirect.
                                Last edited by Michael1954; 04-11-2017, 01:08 AM.

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