Blog from September, 2012

WDIAHAD resumes October 8
David Harms posted on Sept 25, 2012

Our WinDev In An Hour A Day series is taking a break so we can get caught up on other content and hopefully get the site software updated (there are lots of cool new features in the update, so stay tuned!)

WinDev in an hour a day: Variable return types
David Harms posted on Sept 20, 2012

WinDev lets you return whatever you like from a procedure or method; you don't have to declare the return type ahead of time. In fact you can return varying data types from the same method.

WinDev in an hour a day: Method overloading and testing issues
David Harms posted on Sept 19, 2012

Dave Harms makes some headway testing method overloading (and discovers an unexpected bonus) but gets stalled by two tests that, for no apparent reason, won't run. 

WinDev in an hour a day: a DbgView digression
David Harms posted on Sept 18, 2012

What do you do when a unit test can't give you all the information you need? You write to the system log and view the results with DbgView. Dave Harms muddles his way through to calling the Windows API in WinDev. 

WinDev in an hour a day: OOP groundwork and digressions
David Harms posted on Sept 17, 2012

Dave's tour of WinDev's OO capabilities brings up some questions about method parameters, which leads to setting up some unit tests...

WinDev in an hour a day: Object oriented programming!
David Harms posted on Sept 13, 2012

Yes, WinDev has OO capabilities. Here's why you should care (if you don't already), plus a first look at how to declare a class.

WinDev in an hour a day: Charts, and a suggestion for complex menus
David Harms posted on Sept 12, 2012

Dave Harms dabbles in chart creation, messes up his environment, and wonders why menus aren't searchable.

WinDev in an hour a day: Email and FTP
David Harms posted on Sept 11, 2012

Sending a file or an email between two computers doesn't sound all that complicated, but there's a lot to consider especially if you want the UI to remain responsive while the transfer is happening. WinDev has a number of example apps demonstrating how to do FTP and email. 

WinDev in an hour a day: socket communication
David Harms posted on Sept 10, 2012

The tutorial may be a little thin on the subject of socket communication, but there's a nice little client/server chat application that's worth a closer look.

WinDev in an hour a day: The thread pool example
David Harms posted on Sept 06, 2012

Dave Harms deconstructs the thread pool example and discovers how easy it is to set up a queue of tasks that execute as threads become available. He also notices an oddity in the order in which tasks are executed... 

Skype chat logs posted for July and August
David Harms posted on Sept 06, 2012

The WinDev Skype chat logs for July and August have been posted.

WinDev in an hour a day: Errors, exceptions and indirection
David Harms posted on Sept 05, 2012

Dave gets back into the WinDev flow with a look at the differences between exceptions and errors, and spends a little time exploring the powerful concept of indirection. 

Pete Halsted on case sensitivity in PostgreSQL
David Harms posted on Sept 05, 2012

In this two parter, Pete Halsted first looks at case sensitivity in the data definition language, and then at handling case sensitivity in sorts and data comparisons. 

WinDev in an hour a day: Easing back in
David Harms posted on Sept 04, 2012

With the summer publishing break over, Dave Harms dips his foot back in the WinDev pool.