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Quick Start
Brilliant Database is the program that can help you quickly and easily
create a database and work with it using convenient wizards and tools:
1. Visual Form Editor is a characteristic feature of Brilliant Database that allows creating new databases quickly and easily. You can choose the required element from the element set and put it into the form. Here you can use lists, text, image or password storing fields, buttons and a lot more.
2. Report Style Editor allows creating any forms of visual representation when making a printout, such as Catalogs, Reports, Envelopes, Labels, Business Cards and other.
3. Custom Export Editor can be used to create
templates to export
data in the plain text format or HTML format, send e-mail directly from the
database, integrate your database with MS Word, etc.
4. Custom Import Editor (Parsing) allows importing text data from any other programs and files directly into the database using the drag-and-drop technique.
4. Formula editor is a handy tool created to automate
data calculations. Using standard mathematical constructions, you can set a
formula, according to which the necessary data will be calculated automatically.
5. Query Editor allows you to create and adjust
queries for getting necessary information from your database immediately. No special
query languages are required.
6.Script Designer allows you to automate routine
operations.
7. Toolbar Editor allows you to hasten and simplify the work with your database. Using this tool, you can create new buttons, menus and hot keys, and add new functionality to the program.
8. Software Development Kit. (SDK
version only) Using the extended version of Brilliant Database (SDK), you can create and easily distribute your own database applications. Databases created with the help of the SDK Module are stand-alone EXE programs that require no extra files, and work with all latest versions of Microsoft Windows (2000/XP).
Application User Interface
The main application window consists of three areas:
- The left part of the window (1) shows
the
list of folders that the opened database contains. The current folder is
highlighted with color.
- The upper right window area (2)
shows the list of records in the current folder. The current record is highlighted with color.
- The bottom part of the window (3) contains
a form that can be used to view and edit the selected record data.
To select a record for editing, click its name in the records list
with the left mouse button. A database folder can be selected similarly.
To add a new record or a new folder to the database, use the Add menu command or the Add Record/Add Folder toolbar buttons.
After a new record is created, the input focus is automatically set to the record edit form. You can easily go through the record fields using the Tab key.
The Record and Folder menus contain commands to work with the selected record and folder.
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