This manual has been developed using
abcDB 2009. If you are using a version prior to this, please realize that some
functions and features may differ slightly or may not exist at
all.
Version 2009 includes the following features:
· 100% compatible with Windows Mobile Professional devices (WM5.0/6.x)
· Ability to open multiple forms, queries and tables simultaneously.
· Unlimited controls per form.
· Support for remote WEBSERVICES!!! (See Appendix M)
· Form designer now includes user-definable ‘grid lines’ to make designing forms easier.
· Multiple new commands allowing your application to read and write to the pocketpc registry.
· Background and foreground color can now be set for button controls
· Powerful integration with ‘Microsoft Pocket Outlook’. You can now access/delete/modify your Outlook data right from within your abcDB application!
· Dozens of new commands and functions
· Treeview control
· Listbox control
· New ‘event’s – KeyPress, OnPaint
· Image controls now support JPG,GIF, and BMP image types
· User definable color schemes allows you to run abcDB in whatever colors you like the most!
· For the more advanced abcDB users, there is a new DEBUG menu option which allows you to ‘debug’ your forms code by running the code line-by-line. This feature makes is MUCH easier to find and ‘squash’ those pesky programming bugs.
· When designing forms, you can now select multiple controls and align them and size them. This makes designing forms MUCH easier and more efficient.
· Dropdown controls can now have an associated ‘itemdata’ column. In other words, you can display text values (ie. CustomerNames) and then return the associated ID (ie. CustomerID) by using the new DROPID function
· New DropDown Wizard. When entering data directly using the ‘tables’ view of abcDB, you can now specific certain fields in your tables to be displayed as ‘dropdown lists’. Access this new feature in the “FILE/Options/Setup Dropdown Lists” menu
· Now can reference control values that exist on other forms. (ie. SETVALUE(~MyTextbox~//~Form2!Textbox1~)