Valentina Getting Started

VALENTINA Getting started Paradigma (www.paradigmasoft.com) © 1999-2000 Acknowledgments: Andy Bachorski , Andy Fuchs, Bill Mounce, Brian Blood, Craig A. Berry, David A. Bayly, Frank J. Schima, Guillermo Zaballa, Hideaki Iimori, John Roberts, Lynn Fredricks, Paul Shaap, Robert Brenstein. 1 Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................. 3 Installation ..................................................................................................................... 4 Working with Valentina ............................................................................................... 5 Create the Structure of a Database ............................................................................. 7 Adding a New Record to the Table ............................................................................. 8 Updating a Record in a Database ................................................................................ 8 Deleting a Record in a Database ................................................................................. 8 Selecting All or Some Records of a Table ................................................................... 9 Sorting a Selection of Records ..................................................................................... 9 Sorting a Selection of Records into a List .................................................................. 9 Searching and sorting with SQL ................................................................................. 10 Modifying the Structure of a Database....................................................................... 11 GUI of Valentina ........................................................................................................... 12 The environments of Valentina ............................................................................. 12 The Developer Window ......................................................................................... 13 The Header Bar of the Developer Window .......................................................... 14 The inheritance diagram ....................................................................................... 14 The relation diagram ............................................................................................. 14 The User Window ................................................................................................... 15 Standard Output Layout ....................................................................................... 16 Standard Input Layout .......................................................................................... 16 The H…