Dave Harms gets a bit confused by the Control Center, but with a little help from his friends finds his analysis is in fact synchronized with the SQL server database.
HyperFileSQL is WinDev's well-regarded SQL database. Dave Harms reviews some of the server's features, installs the server, and imports a database.
Dave Harms continues his exploration of the WinDev control set with a look at some nifty splitter/resizing functionality, MDI vs SDI, and three ways to reuse controls.
Dave explores the somewhat misnamed "ergonomics" section of the tutorial, where he learns how to globally apply styles and discovers some useful information on WinDev's mysterious "planes".
Dave Harms offers his thoughts on WinDev to date. Tomorrow: back to the tutorial!
WinDev comes with an impressive list of controls, with new controls being added on a regular basis. Dave Harms begins exploring the standard controls.
Dave Harms does something odd to the IDE but eventually gets everything back to normal, then learns a few useful things about IDE customization. He also takes a brief but interesting detour into importing windows from other applications.
The examples from www.sdcdev.net now include a fully working example of how to lock down an application with an 'Application Key'. This does not use a USB key but rather an application key that can be defined by you. This value is then converted to a Serial Number. An activation key is then calculated from the SN.A license file is then produced. How you receive the application key, process it and return it is up to you.
WinDev makes it easy to build applications for different targets (e.g. Win32, Win64 and Linux) complete with an installer.
Day 16 wasn't a sweet one - Dave encountered problems with groupware and a recorded test that failed even though the code seemed perfectly fine. Auditing was a bright spot, however.
Reusable queries are way cool, but it's also possible to create a report based on a query that's specific to the report. Also in this installment: some notes on calculated fields and a problem with user groupware.
Being able to define and reuse queries is a great time-saver and avoids code duplication. It's also easy to generate reports from queries.