If your window makes use of a datawindowchild for whatever reason remember that if you modify the parent datawindow the reference to the child will (most likely) be lost. In the PB Help it states: If a property causes this behavior, this is noted in its description in Chapter 3, “DataWindow Object Properties.” but I…
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PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Modify Parent Datawindow after a Getchild
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PowerBuilder – Treeview like Tooltips for Datawindows
The treeview control has a very neat piece of functionality built in called Tooltips. When this property is checked your application will automatically display all the text on a treeview item if it is cut off by the edge of the control when the mouse pointer goes over that row. If the row text is…
PowerBuilder – Datawindow column Edit.Style values
checkbox dddw ddlb edit editmask inkedit radiobuttons richtext For some reason I couldn’t find this information in a nice list so here it is.
PowerBuilder – Filter vs Find performance
If you have rows in a datawindow/datastore and you want to look through them for a match against some new code (say you are looking for an existing entry so you can add to the quantity), it is better to use the Find method in a loop than to use the Filter method. Filtering large…
PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Removing Blank Rows from Datawindow
I’m working with a ‘pre-Cambrian’ framework of sorts which has a datawindow ancestor with quite a lot of functionality in it. One standard piece in list type datawindows is to insert a blank row when the user opens a window. This way the user doesn’t have to click a ‘new’ button or do something else…
