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New Features in
Alpha Five Version 9

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Browses
  Overview
  Browse Controls
  Browse Controls Toolbox
  Image Control
  Inserting an Image Control
  Smart Fields
  User Defined Smart Fields
  Image Fields
  Bubble Help
  Defining Bubble Help
  Vertical Scrollbar
  Defining a Scrollbar
  Column Formatting

Forms
  Smart Fields
  User Defined Smart Fields
  11 New "Super" Controls
  Hyperlink Supercontrol
  Record Navigator Supercontrol
  Embedded Xdialog Supercontrol
  Report Preview Supercontrol
  Clock Supercontrol
  Calendar Supercontrol
  PDF Viewer Supercontrol
  Web Content Supercontrol
  Inserting Web Content
  Static HTML Objects
  Dynamic Guidelines

Tables
  HTML Memo Fields
  Mapped Tables

Reports
  Interactive Reporting
  Dynamic Guidelines
  Save as Excel File

Field Rules
  Overview of new Features
  Edit Records in a Lookup
  Resizeable Lookup Windows
  Scaled Images in Lookups

Other Improvements
  HTML Bubble Help
  Hyperlinks in Bubble Help
  ClearType Fonts

SQL
  SQL Query Genie
  Import/Export Connection Strings
  Exporting to SQL Databases
  Importing from SQL Databases
  See also "Active-Link Tables"

Active-Link Tables
  Overview
  Stored Procedures
  Update Statements
  Fieldnames and Definitions
  Flexible Connection Strings
  Data from Different Backends
  SQL+MySQL Example
  Query Genie
  Client and Server Side Queries
  Optimistic Record Locking

Application Server Performance
  Overview
  Gzip Compression
  Persistent Connections
  Pipelining

Web Applications
  Popup Calendar
  Grid Linker
  Flexible Connection Strings
  Search and Replace Styles
  Publishing Profile Genie
  Import Profile from ISP
  Page and Folder Security
  See also "AJAX"

AJAX
  Overview
  Instant Data Validation
  Cascading Lookups
  Auto-suggest Fields
  AJAX Interactive Tutorial

Xdialog
  Header Sections
  Xdialog Genie
  Embedded Browses
  Stylesheets
  Embedded Statusbar
  See also "Embedded Xdialog"

Xbasic
  Script Editor
  Events on HTML Pages
  Dependency Mapper
  Printer and Screen Capabilities
  Getting EXE/DLL Version Numbers
  .Eval() Method in Layouts
  CSS Class
  Summary of New Functions and Methods
  XML Parsing
  XML Queries

Forms

11 New "Super" Controls

Along with the standard objects, like fields, text, boxes and buttons, Alpha Five now offers 11 new very powerful controls that you can add to your forms. These controls let you insert web browsers, display PDF documents, embed reports and more. In the past this could only be accomplished using ActiveX components and Xbasic programming. With supercontrols, you just point and click.

A list of the new supercontrols is shown in the dialog box below.

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