Must be too old or something. 20 years in COBOL and old BASIC and other "normal" languages. I picked up Alpha4 working for a mass mailer and loved it. We didn't do any programming with it however. I took a copy home and did what I wanted using just a couple of forms and reports etc. I'm a Softball Coach and League Official and .... I'm looking to do something like a Contact List/Bay (Field)Scheduler combination. Ticklers & printed schedules and tracking the games etc. I'd like the reports to come out in HTML format so I can just FTP it to my League web site to update schedules and league stats etc as well as in paper for handing to people without web access (same reports) ...... Get the families related using child files and have the capability of sending information to the child or the adult depending on what we need etc. Alpha V looks to be able to do all that. However ......
I'm used to coding something like: (Pseudocode obviously)
MAIN
CALL BUTTON1
CALL BUTTON2
etc
IF EXIT_REQUESTED STOP
Button1
Code
EXIT
Button2
Code
EXIT
Obviously much of the above application will have reusable and interrelated code (or should if I had a clue) I've seen Dr Perlow's Application Library which I tried and somebody else had a free one out there etc but somehow it never connected to me on how to use them. I have both of the books in both the pre 4.5 and the 4.5 version formats and I have 4.3,4 & 5 and can't really get started. How/where do I look to get myself looking at this correctly so I can use it. It appears that Visual Basic works the same way mor or less and I bought Alpha V to avoid the 500$ expense of Microsoft just for the compiler/development environment without a database. I know Alpha can do this but I seem to be looking at it from the wrong angle somehow. Any ideas for the old guy??
Thanks
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T-Rex
I'm used to coding something like: (Pseudocode obviously)
MAIN
CALL BUTTON1
CALL BUTTON2
etc
IF EXIT_REQUESTED STOP
Button1
Code
EXIT
Button2
Code
EXIT
Obviously much of the above application will have reusable and interrelated code (or should if I had a clue) I've seen Dr Perlow's Application Library which I tried and somebody else had a free one out there etc but somehow it never connected to me on how to use them. I have both of the books in both the pre 4.5 and the 4.5 version formats and I have 4.3,4 & 5 and can't really get started. How/where do I look to get myself looking at this correctly so I can use it. It appears that Visual Basic works the same way mor or less and I bought Alpha V to avoid the 500$ expense of Microsoft just for the compiler/development environment without a database. I know Alpha can do this but I seem to be looking at it from the wrong angle somehow. Any ideas for the old guy??
Thanks
[%-{)>
T-Rex
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