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Newbie - Can Alpha Five do these things

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    Newbie - Can Alpha Five do these things

    Hello all,

    I am all new to this and I am not planning to program much myself, but I am however looking into the possibilities for Alha Five and I have a few questions. These questions is not regarding my standard operation of the application, but rather things that I planned to do in different software connected to the same database. Although if it is at all possible I would rather use AlphaFieve for all development even if it inclides some workarounds. If you just have some ideas, cmments or directions it would be ok for me!

    1. When I highligh a record in my database i would like the value of one cell in the record to be written to a .txt file locally. when I select a new record the .txt file should be overwritten. I have another software reading that file and looks for changes.

    2. Would it be possible to have an additional window open on another monitor that shows one cell from my original window (highlighted record, as in Q1)? I would like to have a monitor in another room with text from my database, but only the text from one cell.

    3. In one cell/column I have a timecode for video (HH:MM:SS:FF), I would like the timecode of the highlighted record to be transitted via MIDI to another computer. Is it possible to open another software (something like a MIDI sending device) with the TC as a viariable/command line? I am not asking about sending MIDI (well, it would be nice), but rather if I can send info/variables to other applications?

    4. I guess I can implement a Flash component in my layout, can I transfer variables to the flash instance?


    I think this is it for now. Any ideas or comments are greatly appreciated.
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    Re: Newbie - Can Alpha Five do these things

    Hi

    I am new as well but i will try to answer your questions as far that you can do it or not to my understanding but i cant help you on doing it

    on question 1 if your data is in a form you can have the onarrive event or onpush event do something

    question 2 with in alpha the only window that can be on another screen is a dialog window again as far as i know

    question 3 in action scripting in miscellaneous you have a option to open another program don't know about it just saw the option

    i don't know anything about question 4

    Thanks Joel

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