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    2-Line Embedded Browse Object

    Take a look at the attached GIF from the Alpha2Go website. It seems that the Browse Object shows rows with 2 lines. Is this possible? I used this feature in Access but have not been able to duplicate in Alpha. Maybe I'm missing something.
    Jeffrey Wolfe

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    Hello, Jeff! You are missing something, but maybe not in the way you expect. If you'll look at the title bar, you'll notice that the form is running in DataEase, not Alpha Five.

    I wonder what (else) Steve Woods sees in DataEase?
    Last edited by jmatienza; 06-20-2006, 04:29 AM.
    Jim

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      #3
      Well, well -- DataEase does have a nifty and flexible multi-row browse; that's what you are seeing in the image. I presented it to Alpha developers a year ago as an example. But I abandoned DE for all new development in 2004 (when I attended my first Alpha conference). I still have several clients in DOS and Windows that I maintain. I have one major application built in DE and sold commercially (www.smartpremise.com). But I am rewriting it in Alpha. DE just came out with version 7. I evaluated it, and it has nothing worth looking at - but that is said from my new Alpha perspective; if I was still using DE, I would upgrade. No one uses their web features (at least the forum discussion on the web feature has minimal activity). They took the route of taking a DE Windows page and converting it to a HTML page. Then you get to design a top and side bar (frames) and the DE page goes in the middle. It creates BACK, FORWARD, SAVE buttons, etc. Data travels to and from the database using xml. DE's scripting is weak; at least it never worked in v6. Their equivalent to xbasic, called DQL is much more limited, but actually much easier to master, especially in the area of exports, fetches, matching records, etc. When I evaluated v7 it GPF'd (stopped working) while running several of the demo apps that come with it. I think this is a known problem with their "multibox" or lookup. But GPF's were a common thing with DE. I STILL behave in Alpha as though I am using DE, I save every 10 minutes, cringe when I do something requiring heavy processing, and never press the END key (DE DOS problem, hangs the PC). Except for their American team, I have nothing nice to say about their management -- and the missing specifics of that statement are why I went looking for an alternative. Since then, I have enjoyed all aspects of my relationship with Alpha -- the software, the development team and the management.

      Anything else you want to know?
      Last edited by Steve Wood; 06-20-2006, 11:12 PM.
      Steve Wood
      See my profile on IADN

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        #4
        Originally posted by jwolfe11
        Take a look at the attached GIF from the Alpha2Go website. It seems that the Browse Object shows rows with 2 lines. Is this possible? I used this feature in Access but have not been able to duplicate in Alpha. Maybe I'm missing something.

        I'm sure this is part of what we are all waiting for in the 'next_generation' super browse, I' hoping for multicolumn as well (if I have three fields in the browse these are repeated across the browse with a horizontal with a bottom scroll bar) This allows you to use the screen capcility to it's best.

        See attached screen shot from 'datapower' that allows this.

        Ta

        John
        Last edited by tarlachmoorhouse; 06-21-2006, 02:59 AM.

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          #5
          Anything else you want to know?
          Nnnnope! I just learned more about DataEase than I needed to know, Steve. Thanks for that disturbingly comprehensive reply!

          Side comment: It seems a little odd that DataEase should have such a "nifty and flexible" browse while Alpha Five with all its advantages has that much-reviled browse. Even at my level I'm running into its limitations. Why do you think it's taking so long to revamp?
          Last edited by jmatienza; 06-21-2006, 03:00 AM.
          Jim

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            #6
            Code:
            disturbingly comprehensive
            My true personality starts to emerge!
            Steve Wood
            See my profile on IADN

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              #7
              I enjoyed your reply very much, actually. It's the kind of gung-ho message that encourages me to persevere with learning Alpha Five.
              Jim

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                #8
                Originally posted by jmatienza
                Nnnnope! I just learned more about DataEase than I needed to know, Steve. Thanks for that disturbingly comprehensive reply!

                Side comment: It seems a little odd that DataEase should have such a "nifty and flexible" browse while Alpha Five with all its advantages has that much-reviled browse. Even at my level I'm running into its limitations. Why do you think it's taking so long to revamp?
                We would all like to know y it's takeing so long to revamp, it seems this has been talked about for a least three years and their has been no update from Alpha Software that I am aware of.

                See links below-
                http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=49558

                http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=40546
                Last edited by Rayr; 06-21-2006, 12:31 PM.
                Kind Regards,
                Ray Roosa
                Raylin Micro, LLC.

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