Hi
I purchased Susan's books on A5 and the books on X-Basic but they are huge.
I find it very difficult to wade my way through books just following sort of by rote and copying down and doing what they say.
I find I learn a whole lot better if I think of something I wish to achieve and then can work out how to accomplish it.
I have another post on this site asking how to populate a Browse based on a selection from a Combo Box.
I had a look at Alpha Sports database and on the Invoices Form on the left hand side they have a Type-in Field with an upside down arrow on it for the Customer_ID field. When you click on it a Customer.dbf:Lookup appears. Ah I thought that would be useful, I'll have a look at the properties of the Type-in field to see how that's done...but when I do there is nothing I can see in the properties that would indicate it would perform the action it does, so I figured the Customer.dbf:Lookup must be driven by an Event of the Type-in Field, but when I look at the events of that field there is nothing to indicate that a click or anything causes the Lookup to appear.
So I went to A5 Help system and typed in Lookup to see how they are created, and it starts going on about the listbox tab of the Table Lookups form contains two list boxes....but I'm not sure what tables etc the Help is refering to?
What I would like to find is a reference manual for A5, it is so frustrating when you have used another database product and been told A5 can create better databases in less time and not be able to accomplish even the simplist of things and be unable to locate help quickly to enable you to improve your understanding.
I know this forum is great but surely there is something out there that can assist with finding out how the controls on forms /X-Basic etc all fit together?
Unfortunatly there is just not the time to start at the beginning of the help file and read and try to absorb it all at once.
Are there any simple databases or maybe I should say small databases that can be downloaded to enable people to see how things are put together..perhaps with just a couple of things per database that you could really get stuck into and learn without having to open a database that is fairly comprehensive and covers heaps of dirfferent topics but is difficult to follow if you are a newcomer like me?
Thanks for any assistance.
Mike
I purchased Susan's books on A5 and the books on X-Basic but they are huge.
I find it very difficult to wade my way through books just following sort of by rote and copying down and doing what they say.
I find I learn a whole lot better if I think of something I wish to achieve and then can work out how to accomplish it.
I have another post on this site asking how to populate a Browse based on a selection from a Combo Box.
I had a look at Alpha Sports database and on the Invoices Form on the left hand side they have a Type-in Field with an upside down arrow on it for the Customer_ID field. When you click on it a Customer.dbf:Lookup appears. Ah I thought that would be useful, I'll have a look at the properties of the Type-in field to see how that's done...but when I do there is nothing I can see in the properties that would indicate it would perform the action it does, so I figured the Customer.dbf:Lookup must be driven by an Event of the Type-in Field, but when I look at the events of that field there is nothing to indicate that a click or anything causes the Lookup to appear.
So I went to A5 Help system and typed in Lookup to see how they are created, and it starts going on about the listbox tab of the Table Lookups form contains two list boxes....but I'm not sure what tables etc the Help is refering to?
What I would like to find is a reference manual for A5, it is so frustrating when you have used another database product and been told A5 can create better databases in less time and not be able to accomplish even the simplist of things and be unable to locate help quickly to enable you to improve your understanding.
I know this forum is great but surely there is something out there that can assist with finding out how the controls on forms /X-Basic etc all fit together?
Unfortunatly there is just not the time to start at the beginning of the help file and read and try to absorb it all at once.
Are there any simple databases or maybe I should say small databases that can be downloaded to enable people to see how things are put together..perhaps with just a couple of things per database that you could really get stuck into and learn without having to open a database that is fairly comprehensive and covers heaps of dirfferent topics but is difficult to follow if you are a newcomer like me?
Thanks for any assistance.
Mike
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