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- 01) How to use Custom_Key to pop up a "Choose" box to set a field value, how
- to use Custom_Key to pop up a "List" and also fill in default values
- for other fields from the listed file.
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- 02) How to get "List" to limit the records displayed to those that match
- the data already entered for the search.
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- 03) Allow a database program that is using the standard DataBoss skeleton
- to access a nested menu
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- 04) A function that lists using one key but returns a field other that the
- Key Field.
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- 05) A function that runs a report directly from the database and can pass
- a command line parameter. (* NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO WORK IN "C" *)
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- 06) Example of how to pass inter program global parameters, (Using DB_GVAR.C)
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- 07) How to modify the DataBoss skeleton so that only the current window is
- present on the screen, inactive windows are always swithced off.
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- 08) How to turn the fix skeleton into a "post to all records" skeleton.
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- 09) How to edit fields from the same file on different windows.
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- 10) This useful hint shows how to modify the standard, (single user),
- DBC.SKL so that a whole branch of records of a database can be copied
- as a block.
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- 11) How to force FORMFEEDS and how to SUPRESS LINES in reports.
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- 12) How to automatically add records to a transaction file.
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- 13) How to add a record to another file "On The Fly", when the other record
- belongs to, (is editable), in the current definition/system. This is
- only safe if the files are NOT linked.
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- 14) How to make windows internal functions, (no need for ".DBW" files).
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- 15) How to set the data/index file names at runtime via a choose box.
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- 16) How to adjust a calculation, (compute field), that you don't want to
- display on the window.
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- 17) How to use the "custom_key()" function to set a default field value.
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- 18) A rudementary IMPORT/EXPORT skeleton.
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- 19) A function to convert DataBoss Pascal data files to "C" format.
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- 20) How to get a report to replicate the records in a band, (ie. produce
- duplicate copies).
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- 21) How to add a user hook into list_n_choose, (DB_LIST.C & DB_LIST.H).
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- 22) How to increment a key composed for character before the number portion.
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- 23) A report skeleton that can supress output of a band while still doing
- all the normal processing.
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- 24) A simple function to get/parse command line parameters.
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- 25) Let the user specify if their printer supports IBM graphics characters.
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- 26) Another way, (see hint 20), to get the report to print multiple copies.
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- 27) This useful hint shows how to "automate" a number of menu keystrokes.
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- 28) How to put the ".STC" files into a seperate "Unit" to reduce the size
- of the main Code Segment, (to fix Code & Data Segment Too Large").
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- 29) How to jump directly to a window rather than have to press "+" or "-"
- until you come across it.
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- 30) How to detect duplicates as the field is entered, (as opposed to when
- the <F10> accept record is pressed)
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- 31) How to get reports to the screen, ("CON") to come out in color.
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- 32) How to execute another program using the "Swap To Disk" method.
- (* NOT AVAILABLE FOR "C" *)
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- 33) How to create a generic label filter,(& printing) program.
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- 34) How to modify the standard skeletons so you can change the primary key at
- run time so that Next, Prev, Top and Last are determined using that key.
-