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100 Days of PowerBuilder – Tutorial – Day 2: Creating a Main Application Window

Posted on March 12, 2021 at 5:48 pm in

This is part of my project ‘100 Days of PowerBuilder’ which is a series of discussions focused on basic PowerBuilder development. Note: This article is written with examples created in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. The same steps would be pretty close with any version going back to 9. For the purposes of this exercise I will…

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100 Days of PowerBuilder – Tutorial – Day 1: Creating a Workspace

Posted on March 12, 2021 at 4:59 pm in

This is part of my project ‘100 Days of PowerBuilder’ which is a series of discussions focused on basic PowerBuilder development. Note: This article is written with examples created in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. The same steps would be pretty close with any version going back to 9. When you first install PowerBuilder and the tool…

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I’m Back…

Posted on March 11, 2021 at 5:03 pm in

This blog has been brought out of it’s coma. More PowerBuilder, sql, and programming content to be forthcoming. Will be re-starting my PowerBuilder Tutorial Series, “100 days of PowerBuilder” with the more current Appeon 2019 versions. Old visitors may notice that comments are no longer being accepted for any articles. This is due to privacy…

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PowerBuilder – SQL Native Client Transaction Persistance

Posted on December 17, 2013 at 10:08 am in

There can be an issue with transactions not being disconnected from SQL Server when using the SQL Native Driver (SQLNCLIxx driver). In my case when the application was closed, the transactions were held open for up to four minutes. This may not be an issue with a small number of connections but with a large…

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PowerBuilder – Refactoring Code to Reduce Database Calls

Posted on November 27, 2013 at 4:11 pm in

So I’m working on a fairly large enhancement to an application which is about twelve years old.  In a nutshell it involves allowing users to see data for multiple sites and multiple locations within each site.  Originally the app was created so the user could only view a single site at a time.  Which sites…

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PowerBuilder – Failed to get the service list

Posted on April 4, 2013 at 6:49 pm in

Just so this is documented and maybe come up on a search sometime, here is an error message fail: I got this attempting to set up a new .Net Web Service proxy in PB Classic.

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PowerBuilder ‘Gotcha’ – Tooltips do not display

Posted on April 1, 2013 at 5:17 pm in

I was working on setting up datawindow tooltips for a project and ran into an issue where sometimes they would not display for specific columns on the datawindow. Here is what you have to do: The tooltip Enabled property must be TRUE. The tooltip text must not be an empty string or NULL. The tooltip…

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Windows 7 ‘Gotcha’ – PowerBuilder Application Control Fonts Too Large

Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:17 am in

So I finally got my computer upgraded to Windows 7 at work.  I was very happy to have it since XP was really starting to annoy me and I couldn’t really do some of the development tasks I needed to get done. After a week or so I started looking through the applications I work…

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PowerBuilder – Writing to the Windows Event Log

Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:32 pm in

Here are  two ways to write to the Event log in Windows and indicate the source of the message. Reportevent External Function and Eventcreate command line command You can use the command shell to do this too but this has the drawback of not being able to assign the source of the event. First you need…

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PowerBuilder – Datawindow Usability Improvements

Posted on December 27, 2012 at 5:25 pm in

I did a presentation at the 2012 PowerBuilder Developers Conference on improving the user experience in older PowerBuilder applications.  Later in December 2012 I presented an abstract of that on PowerBuilder TV.  The recorded session can be found here. I have updated the presentation files along with exports of the PB objects so that folks…

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