The PFC window resize service is one of my favorite things in the entire class library as it can easily be implemented and adds a great bit of functionality to an application. One drawback, however, is there is no built in capability to limit the resizing of the objects on a window; either they resize…
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Powerbuilder – PFC Resize Service Extension / Max Height & Width
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PowerBuilder – PFC file, resize, and string services
Although the PFC provide a wide range of capabilities, it can be a very tedious task to ‘strip out’ a specific piece of functionality for use in an ‘non PFC’ application. Here are the objects and modifications you need to do to strip out the File Service, Window Resize Service, and the String Service. PFC.PBL…
PowerBuilder – Getting Active Directory information
Here is a handy bit of OLE to retrieve Active Directory information. oleobject ads string ls_stuff ads = CREATE OleObject ads.ConnectToNewObject( "ADSystemInfo" ) ls_stuff = 'User: ' + String(ads.UserName) ls_stuff += '~n~r' + 'Computer: ' + string(ads.ComputerName) ls_stuff += '~n~r' + 'Domain: ' + string(ads.DomainDNSName) ls_stuff += '~n~r' + 'Domain short: ' + string(ads.DomainShortName) ls_stuff…
SQL Server Date & Datepart formats
Here is a handy cheat sheet for dates in SQL Server: — DATEPART SAMPLES select 'Year: ' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(4),datepart(year, GETDATE())) select 'Quarter: ' + CONVERT(CHAR(1),datepart(quarter , GETDATE())) select 'Month: ' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2),datepart(month, GETDATE())) select 'Day of Year: ' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(3),datepart(dayofyear, GETDATE())) select 'Day of Month: ' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2),datepart(day, GETDATE())) select 'Week: ' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2),datepart(week, GETDATE()))…
PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Quoted Identifiers
Be careful when developing against any database which supports quoted identifiers (I know, who doesn’t)? Anyway it is real easy to forget and ‘turn off’ this option on your local db (or your development connection) and end up releasing a bug by a simple SQL alteration like this: –Original SQL SELECT partNo , partDesc FROM…
PowerBuilder – Special Effects Popup
A question came up on Tek-tips forum regarding creating a special effects popup window. These are the kind which come up from the bottom right corner of your display to tell you your virus data has been updated or some such important message. Many times these are also semi transparent and even go away after…
PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Datawindow update properties
So a customer is complaining that their data is ‘auto-magically’ changing and there is ‘no way anyone here is doing it since I’m the only one who knows how’. Blah, blah, blah. Solution? – database trigger to log when something is changed on the specified table. Now you go to the datawindow object which handles…
PowerBuilder – Datawindow SQL changes made easy
One application I developed involved retrieving from a large dataset based on any number of criteria. Yea, I know, this sounds just like the application you worked on right? Anyway, there are a variety of ways to achieve this in PB but the one approach I like best when dealing with a variable number of…
PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – pfc Resize service and Tabpages
The window resize service is one of the best features of the PFC. With a few lines of code you can easily make your application much more resolution independent and user friendly. Something else which makes this service pretty cool is that it can be easily un-copoled from the rest of the pfc. All you…
PowerBuilder – Things to Avoid
“Give someone enough rope and he’ll hang himself” There are a number of things to avoid in Powerbuilder since they are either resource hogs or make maintenance/debugging a real pain. In no particular order. Code in the Other event I worked for awhile on a large accounting application, a commercially available product, written in PB…
