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Using ICalendar (.ICS) files for Event Scheduling
Here is a very easy way to schedule events from within your application. This assumes you have a way to send emails with attachments. If you are dealing with a high volume situation, you may with to write the data to a table and have the database (or some other process) send them out. The…
PowerBuilder – Folder Selection Dialog Window
Here is an NVO used to envoke a Windows folder selection dialog since PowerBuilder does not have it’s own version. You can change the API calls to ANSI for earlier versions of PB. I’ve had this squirreled away for awhile and I no doubt got it from someone else off the web. Thanks! // window…
PowerBuilder – Connect to SQLite version 3 database (ODBC)
If you are interested in doing PowerBuilder development with an SQLite database here is the DSN Less connection string to get you going. string ls_dbparm, ls_dbfile, ls_exepath, ls_file[] ls_dbfile = c:\temp\sqlite.db3' IF Fileexists(ls_dbfile) THEN // do nothing ELSE IF GetFileOpenName('Select Data File',ls_dbfile, ls_file,'db3','SQLite files (*.db3),*.db3') < 1 THEN Messagebox('No Data File Chosen','Application will close') HALT…
PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Datawindow Column Alignments
I’ve been working quite a bit lately on the ‘tooltip’ type of functionality for datawindows. I encountered an issue today which gave me a bit of hassle until I worked it out. My technique looks at the width of the column and it’s position within the datawindow control to decide whether or not all the…
PowerBuilder – Type ahead style dropdown datawindow columns
This type of functionality is one of those things which fills a gap so completely and perfectly that when you encounter some application (and almost all web pages) which doesn’t have it you groan to yourself. In the ancient past this was alternatively referred to as ‘Quicken style’ dropdowns since that application was one very…
