Here is a technique you can use to resize a response window or userobject as needed. It makes use of the GetWindowLong and SetWindowLong Windows API methods. The oldest reference I found to this is from Eric Aling back in 2000. In a nutshell, you are changing the border around the object to one which…
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PowerBuilder – Resizing a Response Window or User Object
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PowerBuilder – Discarding Rows with Find
It’s a fairly common practice to report on a set of data derived from a larger group of rows. There are many techniques to do this in code and with the methods available with datawindows/datastores. One typical approach is to use the Filter method. The problem with this is it requires another trip to the…
PowerBuilder – Determining if Controls Overlap
I had a situation where I needed to know if the user is clicking on a control which is underneath a rectangle on a datawindow. In this case the interior of the rectangle was transparent. ls_name = dwo.name IF (left(ls_name, 2) = 'r_') THEN // my standard rectangle naming convention ls_objects = this.Describe( 'DataWindow.Objects') ls_objects…
