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The following Tech Notes are designed to help you with some of the more common technical problems you might face while developing your Omnis application. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get notified when Tech notes are added or updated.
| Setting Environment Variables on the Mac | Updated | TNSQ0025 |
| Using Bind Variables With SQL Classes | Updated | TNSQ0001 |
| Making SSL Connections using the PostgreSQL DAM | New | TNSQ0031 |
| Setting Up The Omnis App Server | New | TNJS0003 |
| OpenSSL Error when launching Omnis Studio on RedHat6 | New | TNLI0006 |
| Building & Customizing the iOS JavaScript Wrapper app | New | TNJS0002 |
| Building & Customizing the Android app | New | TNJS0001 |
| Preparing Your Omnis Application For The Mac App Store | New | TNMC0004 |
| Building an iOS Application | Updated | TNMC0002 |
| Building & Customizing the Android app | New | TNJS0001 |
| Building & Customizing the iOS JavaScript Wrapper app | New | TNJS0002 |
| Setting Up The Omnis App Server | New | TNJS0003 |
| Setting Secure mode for the Omnis App Server | TNWE0009 | |
| Cancelling a long server process from a remote form | TNWE0012 | |
| Asynchronous Programming in Omnis | TNWE0014 | |
| Direct HTTP access in Omnis | TNWE0016 | |
| Using Omnis HTTP Commands | TNWE0018 | |
| Using the JavaScript Client with PHP | TNWE0024 |
| Personalizing Your iOS Application | TNMC0001 | |
| Building an iOS Application | Updated | TNMC0002 |
| iOS Wireless Application Distribution | TNMC0003 | |
| Preparing Your Omnis Application For The Mac App Store | New | TNMC0004 |
| How to install Omnis Studio 3.x under Linux (Updated Jan 04) | TNLI0001 | |
| The Integration of Open Office in Omnis Studio under Linux | TNLI0002 | |
| How to run and use Omnis Studio on Linux platforms (updated Jan 04) | TNLI0003 | |
| Setting up Omnis on Debian Linux | TNLI0004 | |
| How to determine the MAC address under Linux | TNLI0005 | |
| OpenSSL Error when launching Omnis Studio on RedHat6 | New | TNLI0006 |
| Objects and Object References | TNOO0001 | |
| Polymorphism in Omnis | TNOO0002 | |
| Using References | TNOO0003 | |
| Beginners guide to Abstraction and Inheritance | TNOO0004 | |
| Encapsulation of GUI Objects | TNOO0005 |
| The DEFAULTDATE keyword for Oracle |
TNDA0001 | |
| Accessing Oracle 9i in Omnis |
TNDA0002 | |
| Using Bind Variables With SQL Classes |
Updated |
TNSQ0001 |
| Inserting Dates into a Server from Omnis Studio | TNSQ0002 | |
| Omnis ODBC Access Masks | TNSQ0003 | |
| Omnis Studio Examples - SQL | TNSQ0004 | |
| Altering Datatypes for the columns in your Omnis SQL table | TNSQ0005 | |
| Non-Visual DB2 DAM and Record Locking | TNSQ0006 | |
| Using Outer Joins with OmnisSQL and the Omnis ODBC Driver | TNSQ0007 | |
| Connecting to Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 9 (ASA) | TNSQ0008 | |
| Connecting to Sybase from Mac OSX | TNSQ0009 | |
| Using Oracle Instant Client with Mac-PPC | TNSQ0010 | |
| Using Oracle Instant Client with Mac-Intel | TNSQ0010a | |
| Using Mac OSX DAMORA8 and DAMSYBSE DAMs with Studio 4.2 | TNSQ0011 | |
| Creating your own SQL session for MySQL | TNSQ0012 | |
| Mapping Character Sets | TNSQ0013 | |
| Configuring Oracle DAM(s) on Linux | TNSQ0014 | |
| ODBC Administration with Omnis Studio | TNSQ0015 | |
| Connecting to Sybase SQL Anywhere 10/11 from a Mac-Intel Client | TNSQ0016 | |
| SQL Error Handler | TNSQ0017 | |
| Using multiple SQL backends with Omnis | TNSQ0018 | |
| Mapping Extended Characters with PostgreSQL | TNSQ0019 | |
| Connecting to an Oracle 64-bit Server | TNSQ0020 | |
| Connecting to Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 11 64-bit Server | TNSQ0021 | |
| Intelligent SQL Search | TNSQ0022 | |
| Mixing Unicode and Non-Unicode Data Types with Oracle | TNSQ0023 | |
Making Connections using the JDBC DAM |
TNSQ0024 | |
| Setting Environment Variables on the Mac | TNSQ0025 | |
| PL/SQL Array Binding with Oracle | TNSQ0026 | |
Table Classes versus Object Classes |
TNSQ0027 | |
Omnis Character Mapping Explained |
TNSQ0028 | |
Connecting to Sybase from Mac OSX |
TNSQ0029 | |
| Making SSL Connections using the MySQL DAM | TNSQ0030 | |
| Making SSL Connections using the PostgreSQL DAM | New | TNSQ0031 |
| Multiple Libraries and Task Variables | TNLB0001 |
| Using .Net objects in Omnis Studio | TNEX0001 | |
| The Omnis Remote Studio Applet (rStudio) | TNEX0002 | |
| Using the .NET Objects component | TNEX0003 | |
| Displaying progress in FTP Transfer | TNEX0004 | |
| Creating XML documents with oXML | TNXM0001 | |
| Creating Unicode External Components | TNXM0002 | |
| Creating Old-Style Unicode External Components | TNXM0003 |
| Using Omnis Studio as a SOAP host | TNWS0001 |
| Using Complex Data Structures. | TNDM0001 | |
| Data Corruption Problems. | TNDM0002 | |
| String Tables in Omnis Studio. | TNDM0003 | |
| NULLs in Expressions and Omnis | TNDM0004 | |
| Synchronizing a Schema and a corresponding Table in a datafile | TNDM0005 |
| Transfering your customised Component Store between versions of Studio. | TNID0001 | |
| Naming conventions used in Studio. | TNID0002 | |
| Documenting your Omnis code | TNID0003 | |
| Creating your own Component Store Objects | TNID0004 | |
| Adding version info to your application | TNID0005 | |
| Changing Built-in Shortcut Keys in Studio 5.0.1 | TNID0006 |
| Cascaded Menu Instances. | TNGI0001 | |
| Embedding Styles Within Lists. | TNGI0002 | |
| Omnis Tree Control. | TNGI0003 | |
| Prompt for Search Class. | TNGI0006 | |
| Picture Conversion in Omnis 7. | TNGI0007 | |
| Storing JPEGs in a Server Database. | TNGI0008 | |
| Scatter Graphs using the $seriesgroupswap property. | TNGI0009 | |
| The Deployment Process and FAQ. | TNGI0010 | |
| Handling the conversion of a Mac text file to an ANSI (PC) text file. | TNGI0011 | |
| How to drop down a droplist automatically when entering the dropdown list. | TNGI0012 | |
| Studio Event Management. | TNGI0013 | |
| Transparent Window Objects | TNGI0014 | |
| Dynamic Positioning of Objects | TNGI0015 | |
| Programming without the Enter Data command | TNGI0016 | |
| Creating your own Omnis desktop | TNGI0017 | |
| Using $dataname in Subwindow fields | TNGI0018 | |
| Adding colors and icons to lists | TNGI0019 | |
| Manually changing the sort order of list lines | TNGI0020 | |
| How to display PDF files directly in Omnis Studio | TNGI0021 | |
| Re-usable Context Menus | TNGI0022 | |
| Using $gridcolumn and $gridsection in Complex Grids | TNGI0023 | |
| Translating and/or Replacing Built-in Omnis Menus | TNGI0024 | |
| Using the style() function in Tree Lists | TNGI0025 | |
| Standard Menu Command | TNGI0026 | |
| Using Subwindows in a Tab Pane | TNGI0027 | |
| Creating a dynamic search field | TNGI0028 | |
| Column Sensitive Context Menus for Headed List Boxes | TNGI0029 |
| Expanding And Collapsing A Tree. | TNNO0002 | |
| Grid Field Exceptions. | TNNO0003 | |
| OLE Automation Notation. | TNNO0004 | |
| The ODBC Driver for Datafile Access and $publicdata. | TNNO0005 | |
| Using Register DLL and Call DLL. | TNNO0006 | |
| Removing duplicate rows from a list. | TNNO0007 | |
| Using $filter on a list. | TNNO0008 | |
| Proportional sizing of columns in a headed list. | TNNO0009 | |
| Tree lists - displaying nodes with a common parent. | TNNO0010 | |
| Creating default values in new rows in an extendable data grid. | TNNO0011 | |
| Moving objects on a specific tab of a pane. | TNNO0012 | |
| The Notational approach to using FileOps | TNNO0013 | |
| $tag and $drawinactive Properties of a Tree list | TNNO0014 | |
| Defining a list with up to 400 columns | TNNO0015 | |
| Avoiding calculations with NULL | TNNO0016 | |
| Using custom properties with $sendall | TNNO0017 |
| How to use the strpbrk() and strspn() functions. |
TNFN0001 |
| LaserWriter8 (MAC OS) |
TNPR0001 | |
| The job setup dialog | TNPR0002 | |
| Printing ranges of pages | TNPR0003 | |
| Report Class Prints Itself | TNPR0004 | |
| The Page Setup when printing in Omnis | TNPR0005 | |
| Horizontal Sliding | TNPR0006 | |
| Demonstrating the use of $print in reports | TNPR0007 | |
| Save a report as PDF | TNPR0008 | |
| Storing Report Job Setup Parameters | TNPR0009 |
| Converting Omnis 7 applications to Omnis Studio. | TNCN0001 | |
| Preparation of Omnis 7 code prior to conversion. | TNCN0002 |
| Windows User Access Control (UAC) | TNWI0001 |
| Running the Omnis App Server as a Windows Service | TNWI0002 |
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