Requirements: WM2003, WM5, .NET Compact Framework
Overview: abcDB 'Professional' contains all the features you need to build powerful mobile database solutions.
Features:
Version 6.0 includes the following new features:
· COMPLETELY rewritten to improve performance and ease the transition to new devices in future releases.
· Ability to open multiple forms, queries and tables simultaneously.
· Unlimited controls per form.
· 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
· New ‘event’s – KeyPress, OnPaint
· Image controls now support JPG, GIF, and BMP image types
· Scribble control now allows you to save your data to a ‘memo’ field in your database table
· 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.
* Now supports Auto-Increment, Random ID, and GUID field types.
* Greatly improved Script Editor. Now while designing forms, you can create use the query builder while building commands.
* New CAPTION() function allows the captions of Labels and Command buttons to be changed at runtime
* RUNUPDATE() function allows you to execute the equivalent of UPDATE queries. (UPDATE queries are not natively supported by the Microsoft PocketPC Database engine)
* New SCRIBBLE object allows you to capture signatures and other free hand drawings and save the results in an OLE field. (See the associated SCRIBSAVE, SCRIBFSAVE, SCRIBCLEAR functions)
* Every FORM now has a user defineable TIMER event (See the associated TIMER() function)
* New IMAGE object allows you to display BMP files from within your forms. (See associated IMAGE() function)
* Ability to define the FORMATTING properties of your textboxes to either PERCENTAGE or CURRENCY.
* Now DROPREFRESH() will also allow you to refresh a dropdown control with a hardcoded list of items.
* Forms now contain PASSWORD protection. See the PASSWORD property found in the FORMS properties.
* Forms now have a total work area of approx 8.5" Wide by 12" Long.
* New WINDOWPOS() function allows you to position the viewable portion of your form to an alternate location.
* New ZORDER() function allows you to bring controls to the front or send controls to the back at runtime.
* RNDID() function will return a random number suitable for use in AutoID-Random field types (MS Access specific)
* NEXTID() function will return the next ID value from the given table/field.
* PRINT() function will now allow you to PRINT your form at runtime. (NOTE: Print Enabled Version of abcDB Only!)
* ONCLICK() event now added to LABELS.
* EVAL() function implemented which allows you to return the result of math calculations (ie. EVAL("1+2+3") would return 6)
* POWERPICK() function allows you to quickly display a list of items for your users to choose from.