The Browse Form Manager Class was created to provide some advanced interfaces in my applications, without having to include a lot of code to manage the interface in each window. The Browse Form Manager Class was created to provide some advanced interfaces in my applications, without having to include a lot of code to … Continue reading Open Source – Browse Form Manager →

Photo by cmoewes The security class is not a replacement for groupware, or even meant to compete against groupware. The security class doesn't provide any real UI components, instead it provides a foundation to configure default security at design time, and then have that security adjusted at runtime by a “superuser” without requiring additional development work. The Security Class … Continue reading Open Source – Security Class →

The Query by Example class provide a method of allow end users to filter their data using a simple QBE interface. It allows the them to save thier queries for later reuse as well. A QBE are three basic modes of QBE HFitler, SQL, and Advanced SQL. Hfilter and SQL work very similarly except one … Continue reading Open Source – Query By Example →

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 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 →

Photo by sure2talk I covered Hand Coded WinDev reports in a previous article, now we are going to extend that with custom level breaking and sub-totaling. Don't worry, even though the report is "Hand-Coded" all of the standard tools are still available, no need to completely hand code just because you have to do some hand … Continue reading Custom Report Breaks and Totaling without all the Hand Code →

After my series of Webinars on Reports, for the upcoming wxDevCon, I have had several developers ask about about techniques for Reports in WinDev. Hand coded reports is always one of the top questions, so this is a quick overview of the process to do a hand coded report in WinDev. First don't rush to … Continue reading Hand Coded WinDev Reports →

We have a display program similar to the display in airports. We constantly have request from customers that want it customized or they end up creating their own. I decided the best way to handle it was create a group of functions in SQL Server to do all of the logic of what to display and how … Continue reading What did I do Today? →