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Inside LotusScript Joe McGinn 1997 | 420 pages Includes CDROM ISBN: 1884777481 |
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$43.95 | Softbound print book | |
Preface
The purpose of Inside LotusScript is to make it easy to learn how to develop Notes and Domino applications, and to provide you with a practical, useful code base that you can use in your programs. This book is designed for novice and experienced Notes programmers. There is a strong emphasis on providing practical, usable code and solutions to common Notes programming requirements.Lotus Notes 4.x is an extremely powerful software development tool. Using Notes, I can develop databases and groupware applications in one-tenth the time it used to take me using relational databases. This is partly because of the completeness of the Notes tool set. Notes 3 was already a powerful wide area network groupware database. Notes 4 added the LotusScript programming language, navigators, powerful agents, action bars, layout regions, subforms, new formula commands, new view features, and more. Notes 4.5 has added even more programming features: calendar views, LotusScript Libraries, new user friendly date and time popup fields, and, of course, Domino, the Internet programming tools covered in part 3 of this book.
Together these tools are a powerful combination. But it can be difficult, even intimidating, to learn such a large tool set. Inside LotusScript solves this problem by providing step by step tutorials for whatever you need to do, whether it's learning how to develop a Notes application from scratch, or adding a powerful feature like sequential number generation to an existing program. As you read this book, you will learn by doing, and, when you've finished it, you will have proficiency with all of the Notes tools.
DESCRIPTION
At last, here's a book that tells you everything that isn't in the Lotus Notes manuals. It's designed to make it easy for you to develop Notes and Domino Web applications by providing advanced LotusScript code for direct use in your programs. It emphasizes practical, useable code and solutions to common Notes programming problems. If you're interested in Internet or Web programming--or if you want to learn Notes programming, from beginner level to advanced, this book is for you!
What's inside:
- Notes programming basics
- Step by step tutorial development of a real Notes application
- Internet programming and Domino
- LotusScript use interface programming
- Generating sequential numbers
- Setting rich text fonts and colors from LotusScript
- Completed Notes databases for searching of entire subdirectories and sequential document number generation
- All screen shots from the book in color
- All code listings and agents from the book
- LNSpade shareware at a special discount price
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"...distinguished by its extensive use of working Script
examples and in-depth Domino material."
-Pete Barrie, Univ. of Strathclyde
"... really enjoyed the Internet and Domino chapters ...
everytime I had a question, it was answered in the next
paragraph."
-Ann-Marie Tilk, Director, Technical Services, SDSI, Inc.
"... was very impressed with this book ... will recommend
it to my colleagues."
-Dean Moore, Client/SErver Specialist, Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...
Joe McGinn, a professional software development veteran of over thirteen years, has extensive Notes experience. He has developed a leading edge emergency management Notes application that is used in several states and countries.