Superbase NG Quick Start Guide
A fast introduction to development with Superbase NG.
This book provides a quick start guide for doing development using Superbase NG. It is intended as a quick introduction to the various components that make up the Superbase NG package, as well as providing several introductions for various methods of using the product.
Important
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What's in the Package?
This chapter is an overview of Superbase NG
Command Line Programs
Building a Command Line Program In this chapter we are going to build a program that based on th...
Dialog Style Programs
A dialog program in the sense used in this book refers to typically smaller, less complicated pro...
Dialog-Style Programs
What's a Dialog Program? Dialog Style Program A dialogue program, in this case, refers to a typ...
The Sample Program & Creating the Project
The Sample Program The sample program we will use is called SIMPOL Color Lab. It will let the us...
Creating the Design
Creating the Design To create the design, start Superbase NG Personal. Once it has started runni...
Creating the Program
Setting up the Program The first step with getting the program running is to write the code that...
GUI-Style Database Programs
Database programs with a graphical user interface (GUI) are a very common type of application. In...
Introduction & Creating the Project
Database programs with a graphical user interface (GUI) are a very common type of application. In...
Create the Database
In many cases, a database is a complex set of related tables, each containing a specific set of i...
Building the Form
Now that our basic database table has been created, it is time to create a form so that we can ma...
The Program Code
The good news is that there isn't actually much program code to write. In fact, this example is p...
The Finished Product
After all of that work, when we finally run it it shows up looking like the image below: The fin...
Complex SIMPOL Programs
All of the chapters up until now have been leading to a more comprehensive, complex, but also mor...
Introduction & Special Features
All of the chapters up until now have been leading to a more comprehensive, complex, but also mor...
Working with dataform1detailblock
About the Design of Detail Blocks In our initial design and implementation of detail blocks in S...
Using the drilldown()
To make it easy to select the correct customer for an order, the new drilldown() function was bro...
Storing Data Correctly in Modern Windows Systems
As of Windows Vista it became difficult to modify data stored in the Program Files directory. Alt...
Summary
In this chapter we have discussed some of the more interesting techniques used in the SIMPOL Busi...
SIMPOL Server
About the SIMPOL PPCS Server Programs In this chapter we will discuss the multi-user database se...
Web Server Programs
Introducing World Wide Web Server Programming SIMPOL's earliest interactive program capabilities...
Server Programs
About Server Programs This chapter is meant to discuss the approach to building server programs....
Converting Legacy Superbase
Where to Begin? Explaining how to convert from a product that is as multi-faceted as the legacy ...