Alpha Five Version 11 Developer Edition

For Building and Testing Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications

The Alpha Five v11 Developer edition allows you to rapidly create robust database applications that can be run as (PC-based) desktop applications, as well as applications for the web (Internet / intranet) and mobile devices (including the iPhone, iPad, Droid, Xoom, and others).

Alpha Five Version 11 Application Server

For Deploying Web and Mobile Applications

The Alpha Five Application Server is used to run the applications you have created for the web and mobile devices.

Alpha Five Version 11 Runtime

For Distributing Desktop Applications

The Alpha Five Runtime Edition allows you to distribute the desktop (PC-based) applications you have created with the Alpha Five Developer. Your users do not need to have Alpha Five installed.

Image Gallery Component

Easily Add a Powerful Image Gallery Component to your Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications

The image gallery component is a beautiful, and intuitive interface for displaying pictures in desktop, web and mobile applications. On mobile applications, orientation changes can be detected (and adjusted for) and touch events are supported. The component is smart enough to detect the capabilities of each device, and depreciate features when needed.

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Video Player Component

Add a Flexible HTML5 and YouTube® Video Player to your Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications.

This video player makes it a snap to embed HTML5 and YouTube Videos into any kind of application. Video has become an important part of many new applications in virtually every industry, including education, insurance, and the medical field. With the new video component, you can display videos within your applications. And your videos can be hosted from virtually anywhere, including YouTube

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Google® Map Component

Add Powerful Graphical Information System (GIS) Features to Desktop, Web and Mobile Apps

Alpha Five v11 does the "heavy lifting" for you when it comes to mapping, geography, and graphical information systems. The new Google Map component allows your desktop, web, and mobile applications to link to Google Map web services. You can perform geographic searches, display points on a map, and much more. This makes it easy, for example, to add a store locator to your application, so that people can find the nearest points of interest based on their current location.

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Calendar Component

Add powerful drag-and-drop scheduling to your desktop, web, and mobile applications.

If scheduling is important in your application, the new calendar component is ideal. It provides an intuitive way to work with events and dates and uses an intuitive calendar interface. (This feature pack also requires the use of a 3rd party component, which is sold separately. For pricing and to order this additional component, please click here to connect to the Web2Cal! website.)

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Embedded Calendar Control for Dialog Components

Easily Add a Powerful Calender Control to your Web Dialog Components

This feature pack adds a powerful calendar control to your Version 11 Web dialog components. The calendar can be used as a date picker (as well as a starting and ending date picker) and it can also be used to display events in a easily modifiable calendar UI. You have direct access to a nice selection of both server side and client side events to create sophisticated functionality. (This feature pack does NOT require a 3rd party component to run. It includes everything you need.)

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Slider Control for Dialog Components

Add Powerful Slider Controls to your Web Dialog Components

This feature pack adds a powerful slider control to your Version 11 web dialog components. Use the slider to set filter ranges and more. Gives your apps cutting edge functionality and form.

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Search and Navigation for Dialog Components

Easily Add Navigation Tools

This powerful feature pack has two main benefits. First in your data-bound Alpha Five v11 dialog components - you can now easily add a search part. It also adds a powerful way to navigate through your records by using Next/Buttons, or a Slider Control, or via Picking Records from a list, or any combination of the three.

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Power Search for Grids in Dialog Components

Find and Filter Records in Embedded Grids

The feature pack allows you to create a Power Search module to find and filter records in a grid that has been embedded into your Version 11 dialog components.

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Live Linked Embedded Grids for Dialog Components

Easily Link Embedded Grid Fields

Linking is like searching, in that it causes the records in the target Grid to be filtered, but has a very important difference - the link fields in the target Grid are automatically set to their corresponding value in the parent component. So, for example, if the embedded Grid is linked on (say) the 'invoice_number' field, all new records that are added to the embedded Grid will automatically have their 'invoice_number' field set to the linking value.

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Advanced Tabbed Object for Dialog Components

Expose new methods for selecting the Active Pane

The standard Tab control object in the Dialog allows you to group Dialog controls into a series of 'panes'. When the Dialog is run, the user clicks on a tab button to show the corresponding tab pane. However, clicking on a tab button is not the only way in which you might want to change the active pane. With this Feature Pack other methods for selecting the active pane are exposed.

The various ways in which the active tab pane can be selected are:

• User clicks a tab button
• Programmatic - some Javascript code is executed
• Automatic - a client-side 'watch' expression determines which tab pane is active
• Timer - a timer automatically cycles between the tab panes

You can also use the timer feature to automatically cycle through a series of images.

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Power Search for Embedded Reports in Dialog Components

Use the Dialog Component to create a 'Search Part'

With this feature pack, the Dialog Component can be used to create a 'Search Part' for a Report so that the end-user can enter search criteria to define exactly which records to display in the report.

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Subscriber Benefits

Updates avialable only to Subscribers

The Subscriber Benefits Feature Pack contains Alpha Five features that are available only to subscription customers with an active subscription.

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$ Only Available to Subscribers

Alpha Five v11 All in One Bundle

Everything you need to build and deploy Desktop, Web, and Mobile Database Applications

The Alpha Five v11 All-in-one bundle includes the Alpha Five Developer Edition for building applications of all types, the Alpha Five Unlimited Runtime for distributing desktop applications, and the Alpha Five Application Server for deploying both web and mobile applications.

Web Development Bundle

Everything you need to build and deploy Web and Mobile Database Applications

The Alpha Five v11 web bundle includes the Alpha Five Developer Edition for building your applications, and the Alpha Five Application Server for deploying both web and mobile applications.

Desktop Bundle

Everything you need to build and deploy Desktop Database Applications

The Alpha Five v11 desktop bundle includes the Alpha Five Developer Edition for building your applications, and the Alpha Five Unlimited Runtime for deploying and distributing your desktop database applications.

Alpha Five v11 All in One Bundle + Four Feature Packs

Everything you need to build and deploy Desktop, Web, and Mobile Database Applications

The Alpha Five v11 All-in-one bundle includes the Alpha Five Developer Edition for building applications of all types, the Alpha Five Unlimited Runtime for distributing desktop applications, and the Alpha Five Application Server for deploying both web and mobile applications. Also includes four feature packs

Web Development Bundle + Four Feature Packs

Everything you need to build and deploy Web and Mobile Database Applications

The Alpha Five v11 web bundle includes the Alpha Five Developer Edition for building your applications, and the Alpha Five Application Server for deploying both web and mobile applications. Also includes four feature packs

Alpha Five V11 Total Training

The ultimate guide for building web applications and mastering Alpha Five v11.

Over 8 and a half hours of video, divided into 60 concise chapters. Taught by Alpha Five developer and instructor, Steve Workings. This third edition has been completely updated for version 11, and pays special attention to web based applications.

See Table of Contents and sample chapter videos.

Alpha Five: Advanced Desktop Applications

Learn the skills you need to build advanced desktop applications.

Alpha Five has evolved into a development tool ideal for web and mobile applications, but it still remains an outstanding tool for building traditional desktop database applications. For years it's been the go to database for millions. And it's received higher marks than Filemaker and MS Access users, in many prominent publications.

Many of you have been with Alpha Five for years (or even Alpha Four before that) - and have told us that you still want to develop traditional desktop database applications.

For you folks, we have terrific news. The new Jay Talbott Advanced Desktop course is now ready.

This is an Alpha University course that has been carefully packaged for you to complete at your PC - and will give you the skills you need to tackle any desktop database project you require using Alpha Five v11. (It also applies to previous versions of Alpha Five).

Xbasic for Web Applications

In this video training course, Steve Workings and Andy Meer take you beyond the basics of Xbasic programming in Alpha Five.

You'll learn practical day-to-day skills, not just for customizing your web applications with Xbasic programming - but also for tightly integrating your applications with MySQL - creating a tiered application approach. You'll also see a powerful method for HTML reporting, as well as help with debugging, and an elegant way to handle bar coding on the web. (Total runtime approximately 5 1/2 hours)