Top-Down Library Features |
Ready-To-Compile
GUI Application Framework |
Have
a new working application shell running in less than a minute.
Includes...
- Main Application Window with Menu
- About Box
- User Log system with viewer
- DBF management module
- Index routines with progress bar
- LaunchPad for easy Multi-Threading
All are working and ready to add the particulars for your
application. |
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Application
Scaling |
Visually scale your applications to one
one of five levels without changing source code. Allow users to
adjust size to match different monitors or eyesight.
See the screen shots to watch a window grow. |
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Support For
Other 3rd Party Products
(requires your own copy of these products) |
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XbpPDF |
Use this excellent PDF library to save
reports as PDF files from the Print Preview window or create PDFs
programmatically, all from same source code. |
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Marshalsoft
Email Library |
A set of wrapper functions for
managing Email with the popular Marshallsoft Email Library. Email doesn't get any easier than this. |
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SQLExpress |
A handy set of routines to make SQL
programming with SQLExpress faster and easier. |
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| Function-Based Code With Row/Column Coordinates |
Objects are created with
functions using Row/Column coordinates and
dimensions.
Learn powerful OOP techniques while writing code
in familiar Clipper style.
Can also use Pixel coordinates, Upper-Left or Lower-Left |
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IDE and
Form Designer |
Edit, compile, run and debug, all from within the IDE.
Fast, efficient, productive. Use your own editor and DBU.
Project management. Design forms visually, generate
ready-to-compile source code with any coordinate system. A
great time saver.
(Written with
Xbase++ and Top-Down!) |
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Graph Classes |
Two
classes for including graphs in reports and displaying graphs
in dialog windows, with ability to print the window graph or create
an image file of the graph (BMP, JPG or GIF) |
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| Easy Menu Manager |
The
menu manager class makes it easy to Disable/Enable, Check/Uncheck, Add/Remove
Menu Items, and remote triggering,
from anywhere within the application. All of the difficult OOP details are handled
automatically.
The OwnerDraw feature gives us complete control over menu
font and colors, easy display of images, and border bar with text. |
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Tool Tip
Class |
A special Tool Tip Class which is
easy to use and works across multiple threads...
oBtn1 := tdPshBtn(...)
oBtn1:cTip := "Tool Tip Text"
That's all you do! complete control over color, font, delay and
display times, with option for individual components to override the
defaults. |
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| Easy Context- Sensitive Help |
The
Top-Down Help functions make it easy to add links from a form or its components to
any topic in your Help File. Works automatically with the F1 key or the Windows
? Help
Button
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The Top-Down
DE (Data Entry) System
A Clipper-like GET System
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The Most Popular Feature in Top-Down Library
- Familiar Row/Column coordinates (or pixel coords).
- Clipper-style Data Entry with VALID, WHEN and Help
messages.
- Optional Enter Key navigation.
- HotKeys for individual Gets.
- Edit TimeOut.
- Tool Tips
- Built in Pick List with Auto-Open and Incremental
Seek options.
- Pick Lists may be wider than Get, above or below.
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CheckBox, MLE and Spinbutton can be part of the
Enter Key navigation sequence.
- Special Date Get with optional popup calendar. |
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Printing
A
Powerful
Printer Class
for
Clipper-Style Report Writing |
Use
Row/Col or ?/?? style code.
- Includes a full-featured Print Preview.
- Print lines, bars, and shaded boxes with control
over border density, fill and shadows.
- Report Saving - stores graphic segments
to file for
efficient storage, reload later to view, print or
create a PDF (requires XbpPdf).
- Support for color printing. Set
colors anywhere in
the report code, just like setting a new font.
- Print Images - BMP, GIF, JPG or
MetaFile,
using easy row/column coordinates and complete
control over size, and proportion.
- Design Forms, such as Invoices
and Statements,
with shaded boxes, bars, any font, logo images, to
be saved as a function and called later and printed
upon as if it is pre-printed stationery.
- Change orientation in the
middle of a report.
- Print Angled Text,
or text enclosed in a box. |
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Browses
for
DBF, SQL
and
Arrays |
Full-featured browse
components, can be placed on any form
Common Features
- Movable Columns
- Editable Data Column from UDF
- Editable Columns from Related Tables
- Popup Memo Edit with Complete Control Over Size,
Position, and Font
of Window
- Override cell edit behavior with custom routines
- Display bitmaps in columns
- Combo type Drop-Down Picklist for cell edit with
optional incremental seek.
- Multi-line column headers and footers
- Auto "jump" Down or Right after cell edit
- Tool Tips on column headers
- WHEN and VALID codeblocks
- Easy Control over Individual Cell Colors and
Header/Footer Presentation Parameters
- bSkipEval codeblock, evaluated after record pointer
movements
- Resize columns by keystroke as well as mouse
Array Browse Features
- Optional column of Row Numbers
- Columns (array elements) can be hidden |
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| Pre-Written Browse Routines |
tdGenBrow()
A generic
"Black Box" DBF browse; Quick and easy,
with limited capability.
tdAllBrow()
A full featured, parameter configured
DBF browse.
tdSqlAllBrow
Like tdAllBrow() but works with SQLExpress DataSet
cursors. |
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Automatic Data Entry Form for Browse
Editing
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tdAutoForm1()
A parameter driven function, called from within a browse, that
automatically builds a data entry form with all fields, including a
popup window for memo fields. Will automatically scroll if needed
to show all fields. |
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| Over 225 Functions |
Organized by groups:
Black Box, Browse, Data-Aware, Dialog Window, Static Parts, Utility
(includes Windows API functions),
Scope, SQL and Others. |
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Over 65 Classes |
Extending the language and adding
features and capabilities far beyond what comes out of the box. |
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Top-Down
Window Class |
The
Top-Down Window Class Has many Options
- Scroll bars appear when the User makes the
window smaller.
- TopBar object above drawingarea for toolbars.
- BottomBar object below drawingarea for status
bars. Sidebars for modern interface designs.
- System button control options for "Help",
"DisableMax", "NoMinMax", and "None".
- Stay-On-Top property for top-level windows. |
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Multi-Pane
Window Class |
A sliding pane window class with 6
possible configurations. Create 2-pane or 3-pane windows for
Explorer/Outlook-style interfaces. |
Configurations
2-Pane Dlg
3-Pane Dlg |
Multi-Row
Tab Page Class |
Any number of Rows, any number of
pages per row. Automatic activation codeblocks for easier programming,
easily modified. OwnerDraw feature allows complete control,
including preserving color tabs with Visual Styles active in XP and
Vista. |
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Hyperlink Class |
A text object that responds to
mouseover with a hand pointer. When clicked it evaluates your
codeblock, so it can perform any sort of task. Complete control
over font, colors and behavior. Can also display a ToolTip. |
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Popup Menu Class |
An easy to use popup menu class
that allows dropdown menus in Child windows. Easily configured
with an array of text menu items and corresponding codeblocks.
OwnerDraw feature allows complete control over font, colors and images. |
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Calendar Class |
A Calendar component, dedicated
date GET objects with popup calendars, and a popup calendar window.
Optional 1 or 2-click response, 5 sizes and 5 color schemes, plus make
your own colors. Set Sunday or Monday as first day
of week. |
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Analog Clock Class |
Design your own clock.
Complete control of size, colors, BMP background, numerals font and
character style (roman, Arabic, Crillic, etc), and other controls. |
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Directory Tree
Class |
Fast, non-recursive loading, option
to omit floppy drives for even faster loading; Includes new File Pick
popup dialog. |
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| Scroll Area Class |
Allows
a defined rectangular scroll area on a form. The scrolling canvas can be any size and can
contain any type of visual components.
- Can be used for scrolling Gets. |
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ImageFrame
Class |
ImageFrame Class makes it easy to display photos or graphic images on
forms. Control over size, scale, border width, background color. Will display
BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF, as well as metaframe. Control over border size and color. |
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Progress Bar
Class |
3-D progress Bar has optional % text in center which changes color as the bar
moves over it. Control over size, moving bar color, text colors and font. |
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Multiple Line Edit Class |
Adds OverStrike and Ctrl-U keystroke for Undo,
with ability to assign any number of HotKeys. |
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| Timer
Class |
Create any number of thread-safe Timer Events.
Overcome the Xbase++ limitation of one timer
event per application. |
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Button Class |
Dynamic
flat style buttons with
multi-line captions, tool tips, background colors, bitmap or icon images.
Optional dropdown menu button. |
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OwnerDraw PushButton Class |
A
PushButton class that displays multi-line captions and images, in
vertical or horizontal format. Complete control over font,
colors and effects, including Gradient background colors. Focus
effects and Hover effects, with an optional border effect for a distinctive elegant look.
All can be mixed and matched. see the screen shot for some
examples. |
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Ready-To-Use
"Black Box"
Routines |
An entire family of pre-written
pop-up routines such as Message Boxes, two and three-button Prompt
Boxes, Date, Date Range, and String GET Boxes, Password Box, Twin Pick
List, all self-sizing, with complete control over location, color, font,
and border style. |
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| Pre-Written Window Templates |
An extensive set of window templates for many purposes, such
as Threaded and Modal windows with different combinations of event
loops, keyhandlers and Get navigation logic, including a template for
separate program modules, such as General Ledger and Accounts
Receivable. Pick the right
template for the job and have all the event handling, keystroke
handling, and navigation logic already in place. Just fill in
the details. Saves enormous amounts of
time. |
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| Pre-Defined Forms |
Practical, working forms with all event handling,
keystroke handling and behavior logic in place
- Data Entry forms
- Master-Detail forms
- Printer Selection dialogs
- Report Dialog templates |
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| Extensive Documentation |
Over 400 pages in CHM Help
File format, filled with detailed explanations, parameter listing,
example code and a Tutorial. Organized into 10 Chapters, thoroughly
indexed and hypertext linked. An excellent
source of study and a handy programming reference. |
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| Excellent Tutorial |
Step-by-step, build a small
database application with a data entry screen. A great way to
get familiar with the basics. Source code for the Tutorial app
is included. |
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| Source Code Included |
The Library includes all source code for the Top-Down
classes and functions, the Demo and Tutorial applications, pre-defined forms and templates.
Form Designer source code is not included. |
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| Free Tech Support |
Free Tech Support via email. |
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