Decorator Design Pattern – OOP

This is a Servoy Tutorial on how to use the decorator design pattern with object-oriented programming in Servoy. This is an advanced Servoy tutorial, so you may want to familiarize yourself with the other object-oriented Servoy tutorials at this site before reading this one. Photo Credit: hernan.seoane via Compfight The purpose of the decorator pattern…

January 9, 20140CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Factory Design Pattern – OOP

This is a Servoy Tutorial that discusses the factory design pattern and how to build one in Servoy with object-oriented programming. This is an advanced Servoy tutorial, so you may want to familiarize yourself with the other object-oriented Servoy tutorials at this site before reading this one. Photo Credit: Bugsy Sailor via Compfight The…

January 4, 20140CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Button Magic

This Servoy Tutorial is on how to create custom SVG CSS buttons and use them in your Servoy applications. If you are still using the standard Servoy buttons in your application (those Gray boring ones), then this article will help you take your Servoy application to the next level. Even if you have been using…

January 1, 20147CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Table Tree View

This Servoy Tutorial is on how to build a table with expandable/collapsible nodes, like a tree. True, you can probably find a CSS, JQuery or DHTML control that does it better, but this is done using the native Servoy table view. Photo Credit: Denis Collette via Compfight I first did this back in Servoy…

December 30, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Optimized Table Shuffle

This Servoy Tutorial demonstrates how to shuffle rows in a table view, and looks at different approaches to determine the most efficient. Determining the most efficient approach for the shuffle, also reinforces some best practices for working with a foundset of records in Servoy. Photo Credit: Pericomart via Compfight Table views are an important…

December 22, 20134CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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The Mighty Array

This is a Servoy Tutorial on how to use some of the more advanced Javascript array functions. In previous Servoy Tutorials, we talked a lot about objects and object-oriented programming , but I wanted to make sure you understood the full power of the array and its functions as well. Photo Credit: polamance via Compfight.…

December 3, 20131CommentShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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The Demise of the TreeView

This is a Servoy tutorial on using an alternative to the TreeView control in Servoy. This Servoy tutorial picks up where we left off in "Using CSS Components with Callbacks". You should study that Servoy tutorial first, as this one will be a little more advanced. Photo Credit: Gwen Vanhee via Compfight . Still with…

December 1, 20131CommentShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Using CSS UI Components with Callbacks

This Servoy tutorial demonstrates how to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) UI components in Servoy layouts, and how to capture callbacks from them so you can fire events events in Servoy. Servoy Tutorial Photo Credit: Marco Escobedo Art / Design via Compfight If you do some research on the Internet, you will see that they are…

November 29, 20133CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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The New DesignTimeProperties

This is a Servoy tutorial introducing the relatively new designTimeProperties in Servoy Developer. When I first saw the designTimeProperties in the Servoy Developer properties panel, I was immediately curious as to their purpose. Photo Credit: "The Wanderer's Eye Photography" via Compfight. At first I imagined they might enable me to override element…

November 29, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Take Back the UI with OOP

This Servoy tutorial uses object-oriented programming (OOP) and applies what we learned in the prior tutorial to a real-world scenario. The goal is to toggle groups of elements on a form elegantly with an object-oriented design. Photo Credit: Roger Smith via Compfight . Like most developers, you are probably pressed to pack more and more onto the limited…

November 25, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink