Back Issues of the Omnis Technical Newsletter...  
 
The most recent back issues tend to focus on Omnis Studio 4/5 features, but cover topics of general interest to all Omnis developers. All comments and suggestions are most welcome, please email: theeditor@omnis.net.  
   
2010 By David Swain:
Mar 23, 2010 Carrying Over Aggregate Values In Omnis Studio Reports
 
 
 
   
2007/08/09 By David Swain:
Apr 9, 2009 Dynamic HotPICT Options
Jan 23, 2009 HotPICT Component
Mar 20, 2008 Button, Button - Which Kind Of Button?
Jan 25 , 2008 Content Tips for Entry Fields
Aug 2, 2007 The Tree List Component: Loading Data
Apr 27, 2007 The Tree List Component: An Introduction
Feb 1, 2007 Omnis Studio and Unicode
 
 
 
   
2006 By David Swain:
Jan 5, 2006 Object Classes and Instances: Helper Objects
Feb 9, 2006 New Features in Omnis Studio Version 4.1
Mar 2, 2006 The Graph2 Component in Omnis Studio 4.1
Apr 13, 2006 Deeper Mysteries of Graph2
June 21, 2006 Object Reference Variables
July 21, 2006 Data Objects
Aug 10, 2006 External Objects
Sept 8, 2006 $ref and $sendallref
Oct 18, 2006 Environment Variables and Omnis Studio
Nov 16, 2006 New Features of Remote Forms
 
 
 
   
2005 By David Swain:
Jan 13, 2005 Report Configuration Using the $construct Method
Feb 3, 2005 Multi-purpose Reports
Mar 17, 2005 Data Gathering in the $construct Method of a Report
Apr 28, 2005

Task Basics
May 26, 2005 Multiple Taks Processes
June 23, 2005 Providing Global Resources in Multiple Task Applications
Aug 11, 2005 Closing instances and tasks
Oct 20, 2005 Object Classes and Instances: The Basics
Nov 17, 2005 Object Classes and Instances: Function Objects
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
2004 By David Swain:
Jan 29, 2004 Aggregate Values in Omnis Studio Reports
March 3, 2004 Sort Fields in Reports
April 13, 2004 Hyperlinks control (in Omnis Studio 4)
May 6, 2004 Colors in Omnis Studio version 4
June 10, 2004 The Icon Array Field in Studio 4
July 22, 2004 The Modify Report Field
Sept 9, 2004 Report Class Basics
Oct 6 , 2004 The Report Process
Nov 4 , 2004 List-Based Reports
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
The following issues of the Omnis Technical Newsletter were published between Sept 2002 and Dec 2003. Most issues contain two articles, the first part is by Dr Caroline Wilkins about the Omnis web client, and the second is by David Swain about various topics in Omnis including menus, events, and styles.  
 
 
   
2002/03 Dr Caroline Wilkins articles: David Swain articles:
Sept 25, 2002 Part 1, Introduction to the Omnis Web Client.
Event Handling: The Basics
Oct 16, 2002 Part 2, Web Client Components.
Event Handling: Exploring Events
Oct 30, 2002 Part 3, Getting started with a web client application. -
Nov 13, 2002 Part 4, Creating a web client application using Sidebar and Paged Pane components.
Mouse Events
Nov 28, 2002 Part 5, Uploading, previewing and saving image files on the server using web client.
Mouse Event Examples
Dec 12, 2002 Part 6, Minimising the number of instance variables using iRow.Field as datanames.
Keystroke Events
Jan 8, 2003 Part 7, Viewing Table Data.
Status Events
Jan 22, 2003 Part 8, Updating table data and changing images.
 Item Reference and Field Reference Parameters
Feb 6, 2003 Part 9, Log on to Web client using HTML interface.
Exploring Tokens
Feb 28, 2003 Part 10, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface - Validation.
Checkboxes, Radio buttons and other Icons in reports
Mar 26, 2003 Part 11, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface - Responding to user.
style() Function
Apr 16, 2003 Part 12, Log on to Webclient using HTML interface - Responding to user.
style() Continued - Remote Forms
May 1, 2003 Part 13, Log on to Web client using HTML interface - Validating SessionId for Remote Form.
Menu Classes and Instances
May 14, 2003 Part 14, Ultra-thin client content generator.
Installing Menus
May 28, 2003 Part 15, Ultra-thin client: HTML form input from client.
Installed Menus - Installation
Jun 11, 2003 Part 16, Ultra-thin client: Planning a site.
Installed Menus - Menu Lines and Methods
Jun 27, 2003 Part 17, Ultra-thin client: Designing a web site.
Installed Menus - Conserving Menu Lines
Jul 17, 2003 Part 18, Search engine promotion of a site.
Embedded Menus
Sep 10, 2003 Part 19, Graphs and the HTML interface. Popup Menu Fields
Sep 26, 2003 Part 20, Search engine promotion part 2. Context Menus
Oct 22 , 2003 Part 21, Spot the ball - image coordinate sensitivity in the html interface Cascading Menus
Nov 13 , 2003 Part 22, Spot the ball - Layering images in the Html interface. Popup menu commands
Dec 10 , 2003 Part 23, The Master of Puppets theory of web marketing. Resizable windows
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
The Omnis Technical Newsletter was started in 2001 and was published in text email format only. The following is a list of issues published in 2001/02. The authors at this time were Geir Fjaerli and David Swain (click here for the complete archive list or click on the individual links below to go directly to each issue).  
 
   
2001/02 Geir Fjaerli articles: David Swain articles:
March 21, 2001 Building your first Omnis Studio application
Literals vs. Expressions
April 4, 2001 Building your first Omnis Studio application: PART 2 Omnis Classes Matters of Styles
April 18, 2001 String Tables Variables and Fields
May 2, 2001 Building Your First Omnis Application: Part 3 The Omnis IDE Dropdown Selection Lists
May 16, 2001 Building Your First Omnis Application: Part 4, The Data Structure Masked Entry Field Techniques
May 30, 2001 Building Your First Omnis Application: Part 5, Creating schemas and database tables Headed List Boxes
June 13, 2001 Building Your First Omnis Application part 6: Adding table classes and using our schemas in application windows Data Grids in Reports
June 27, 2001 Building part 7: What did the wizard build, and a tour of the method editor Heading Lists in Remote Forms
July 11, 2001 Building part 8: Logging on to your Database The Data Grid Component for Window Classes
Sept 19, 2001 Building part 9: The task window Display Fields
Oct 3, 2001 -- Lookup Channels
Oct 15, 2001 Building part 10: The task window contd Modifying the Component Store
Oct 31, 2001 Building part 11: Designing a proper data entry interface --
Nov 14, 2001 Building part 12: Implementing the data entry interface, part 1 Component Store Templates and Class Defaults
Nov 28, 2001 Building part 13: Implementing the data entry interface, part 2 Dynamically Adding and Removing Components
Dec 12, 2001 Building part 14: Implementing the data entry interface, part 3 Group Methods
Jan 9, 2002 Building part 15: Implementing the data entry interface, part 4 Custom Data Types
Jan 23, 2002 Building part 16: Implementing the data entry interface, part 5 Pushbutton Options
Feb 6, 2002 Building part 17: Toolbars and menus, part 1 Checkbox, Radio Button and Toolbar Object Options
Feb 20, 2002 Building part 18: Toolbars and menus, part 2 Radio Button and Checkbox Strategies
March 20, 2002 Building part 19: Toolbars and menus, part 3 --
April 3, 2002 Building part 20: Our first report Icons and the Icon Editor
April 17, 2002 -- Wrapping List Fields in Reports
May 1, 2002 Triple O - Object Oriented Omnis Building Charts: Exercises With Shape Fields
May 15, 2002 Triple O - Object Oriented Omnis: Part 2 Building Charts: Lurking with Lists
May 29, 2002 Triple O - Object Oriented Omnis, Part 3 Building a Structure Diagram
June 12, 2002 -- Hidden Masked Entry Field Properties
June 26, 2002 Triple O - Object Oriented Omnis, Part 4 Alternative Data Entry Strategies
July 10, 2002 -- Methods and Messages