In 2002/2003, Caroline Wilkins at iB2B Systems wrote a set of news articles, in the form of a 23-part Omnis Web Development Tutorial. It covered both Omnis webclient development and HTML interface/Omnis Ultra-thinclient development. Whilst the tutorial is old, much of what is taught therein is still relevant and will be helpful to an Omnis developer.
Omnis Webclient Tutorial
2002 Tutorial Part 1, Introduction to the Omnis Web Client. Event Handling: The Basics Sept 25, 2002 Tutorial Part 2, Web Client Components. Event Handling: Exploring Events Oct 16, 2002 Tutorial Part 3, Getting started with a web client application. (no article)Oct 30, 2002 Tutorial Part 4, Creating a web client application using Sidebar and Paged Pane components. Mouse Events Nov 13, 2002 Tutorial Part 5, Uploading, previewing and saving image files on the server using web client. Mouse Event Examples Nov 28, 2002 Tutorial Part 6, Minimising the number of instance variables using iRow.Field as datanames. Keystroke Events Dec 12, 2002
2003 Tutorial Part 7, Viewing Table Data. Status Events Jan 8, 2003 Tutorial Part 8, Updating table data and changing images. Item Reference and Field Reference Parameters Jan 22, 2003 Tutorial Part 9, Log on to Web client using HTML interface. Exploring Tokens Feb 6, 2003 Tutorial Part 10, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface – Validation. Checkboxes, Radio buttons and other Icons in reports Feb 28, 2003 Tutorial Part 11, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface – Responding to user. The style() Function Mar 26, 2003 Tutorial Part 12, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface – Responding to user. The style() Continued – Remote Forms Apr 16, 2003 Tutorial Part 13, Log on to Web client using HTML interface – Validating SessionId for Remote Form. Menu Classes and Instances May 1, 2003 Tutorial Part 14, Ultra-thin client content generator. Installing Menus May 14, 2003 Tutorial Part 15, Ultra-thin client: HTML form input from client. Installed Menus – Installation May 28, 2003 Tutorial Part 16, Ultra-thin client: Planning a site. Installed Menus – Menu Lines and Methods Jun 11, 2003 Tutorial Part 17, Ultra-thin client: Designing a web site. Installed Menus – Conserving Menu Lines Jun 27, 2003 Tutorial Part 18, Search engine promotion of a site. Embedded Menus Jul 17, 2003 Tutorial Part 19, Graphs and the HTML interface. Popup Menu Fields Sep 10, 2003 Tutorial Part 20, Search engine promotion part 2. Context Menus Sep 26, 2003 Tutorial Part 21, Spot the ball – image coordinate sensitivity in the html interface. Cascading Menus Oct 22 , 2003 Tutorial Part 22, Spot the ball – Layering images in the Html interface. Popup menu commands Nov 13 , 2003 Tutorial Part 23, The Master of Puppets theory of web marketing. Resizing Fields When the User Resizes the Window Dec 10 , 2003
