Category: WX

More WB Fun – The Running Doctor

You learned about using WB browser code with timers and properties to achieve "eye candy" type of effects without having to know JavaScript in the CURE Effect Article. Today we are going to using some of those technique plus a few new items to achieve the Running Doctor that you can see on theTaxCure.com's Under … Continue reading More WB Fun – The Running Doctor →

Open Source – Balloon Tip Class

The BalloonTip Class was created to provide balloon tip popups. It is based very loosely on the BalloonTip component example provided with WinDev, however it has been stripped down to only the parts needed to display a Balloon tip for a control. Displaying a balloon tip is a simple call to one method. There are … Continue reading Open Source – Balloon Tip Class →

The Cure Effect – How the CURE heading on theTaxCure.com was achieved with pure WX code

There is a lot going on in those 1000 x 109 pixels, automatic rolling text and coloring, shutting off when the mouse is in the region, click through to a popup that looks like a prescription pad, and all of it is native WX code, no JavaScript knowledge needed! Read on and you will be able to … Continue reading The Cure Effect – How the CURE heading on theTaxCure.com was achieved with pure WX code →

Open Source – Default Manager

The Default Manager Class was created to provide a uniform method of storing and retrieving default settings. There are four levels of default storage; Registry, User Global, Window Global and User Global. It really is as simple as all that. Two method, GetDefault and SaveDefault. We use it for everything! Storing database setting in … Continue reading Open Source – Default Manager →

The NextAge Open Source Initiative Finally Begins!

Photo by maartmeester In my spare time which seems to come at 3 in the morning lately, I have been trying to get all of my classes and sample code, documented and prepared to be released as open source. Those that attended wxDevCon have already gotten, several of the classes, and those classes will eventually be … Continue reading The NextAge Open Source Initiative Finally Begins! →

Has your WebDev page randomly quit working? I might know why …

Photo by TalAtlas Are you struggling with simple features that were working on a page, but now have quit working for apparently no reason? Uncle Pete has been dealing with that a lot lately and has a few ideas on why and what to do about it. While working on theTaxCure.com several times I have had features … Continue reading Has your WebDev page randomly quit working? I might know why … →

Mixing Dynamic WebDev and Dynamic AWP Sites for SEO Fun and Profit

Photo by Thomas Leth-Olsen Dynamic WebDev sites take a lot of the tediousness out of Web development, but depending on the type of site and your needs, they may not be very search engine friendly. In this article I will show the approach I am using for a site I am currently developing, by mixing Dynamic … Continue reading Mixing Dynamic WebDev and Dynamic AWP Sites for SEO Fun and Profit →

Chrome Search Shortcut for WX Online Help

My hat tips to Bob Roos from the Skype Chat from pointing me in the direction of this little tip! Many of us have found that using Google to search the Online help works much better than using pcSoft's built in search function. For instance go to google.com and type in site:doc.windev.com DynamicSiteDisplay and press … Continue reading Chrome Search Shortcut for WX Online Help →

Linux and Windows 2012 WebDev Cloud Servers – The Summary

Those of you that have been following me have now that over the last week I did a series of articles on Building a both a Windows and a Linux Cloud Server on Rackspace.com to be used as a WebDev WAS Server. This is my final thoughts after building both, and why I built … Continue reading Linux and Windows 2012 WebDev Cloud Servers – The Summary →

Setting up the WebDev Application Server on a Windows 2012 Cloud Server

In Part one you setup a Windows 2012 Cloud Server on Rackspace, then in Part two you installed HyperSQL and an SCM database. Now its time to install the WebDev WAS (Web Application Server). Remember there is a similar serious of articles for Linux servers on my site. Note: I ran into some performance issues with WebDev and Windows … Continue reading Setting up the WebDev Application Server on a Windows 2012 Cloud Server →