Quick Guide Help Pages

Description

Page links relating to the old Quick Guide to Alpha Anywhere.

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Alpha Anywhere - A tutorial that introduces you to the major features and functions of Alpha Anywhere.

• Introduction to Action Scripting - Action Scripting is an easy, graphical, way to create scripts in Alpha Anywhere to automate your applications and customize their behavior.

• Learning Xbasic - A tutorial that introduces you to building applications with Xbasic.

• AlphaSports Explained - An in-depth description of the design and programming techniques used to create the AlphaSports sample database.

• Learning Xdialog - A tutorial that introduces you to building dialogs and applications with Xdialog.

• Web Publishing Tutorial - An explanation of the basic techniques required to build web applications with Alpha Anywhere Versions 6 and above.

• Client/Server Tutorial? - An introduction to Xbasic programming for applications that use back-end SQL compatible databases.

• Working with SQL - An introduction to Xbasic programming for applications that use back-end SQL compatible databases.

User Guide

• Alpha Anywhere User Guide - How to use Alpha Anywhere, set environmental variables, create databases, forms, browses, reports, operations, etc.

• Netmailer Overview - Overview of and how to use Netmailer for bulk emailing.

• Web Publishing - How to use the Web Component Builder to create web-enabled database applications.

References

• Xbasic Reference - Theory of operation, description of database objects (i.e. tables, records, fields, sets, indexes, queries, forms, browses, reports, etc.) and their methods, important functions.

• Action Scripting Reference - Descriptions of the various Actions available through Action Scripting.

• Xdialog Reference - Xdialog language directives, operators, commands, controls, genies.

• Xdialog Control Reference - The syntax of Xdialog controls.

• Core Functions for Writing Expressions - The important functions that all Xbasic programmers should be able to use.

• Xbasic Functions Listed by Type - Reference lists of families of functions and methods.

• Frequently Asked Questions - Answers to frequently asked questions.