A tornado missed my house by about 1000 feet this past Saturday at about 2:30am. Thankfully there was almost no damage done to the house I live in, indeed, even though several houses in my neighborhood were extensively damanged, there were no injuries. This leads me to the purpose of this topic: prepare an emergency…
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100 Days of Powerbuilder – Day 4: A Look at the IDE
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 version 12.5. Most steps/examples will be identical with any version going back to 9. Mastering the PowerBuilder Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the key…
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PowerBuilder – Fontheight method in Expressions
An enhancement was put into PB12.1 dealing with determining the height of a datawindow column based on its font setting. It’s called Fontheight and takes a string parameter. Unfortunately there does not appear to be any documentation on it in the PB help files (I’m looking in PB12.5). You can see a reference to it…
100 Days of Powerbuilder – Day 3: Window Properties
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 version 12.5. The most steps would be identical with any version going back to 9. Continuing with the window we created on Day 2…
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100 Days of PowerBuilder – Day 2: Creating a Main Application Window
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 version 12.5. The most steps would be identical with any version going back to 9. For the purposes of this exercise I will be…
PowerBuilder – Finding special folders – FDCC Compliance
Here is a link to an article by Bruce Armstrong (since broken) relating to new functionality in PB11.5. The article specifically deals with FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration) Compliance in PB apps and specifically the SHGetFolderPath Windows API function. Although this information has been available for awhile, it’s worth noting again. Usage Notes: function ulong SHGetFolderPath(ulong hwndOwner,…
100 Days of PowerBuilder – Day 1: Creating a Workspace
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 version 12.5. The same steps would be almost identical with any version going back to 9. When you first install Powerbuilder Classic and the…
PowerBuilder – Where is Autoscript?
The autoscript feature in Powerbuilder is something I’ve come to rely on quite heavily, especially when dealing with user objects and such which you may be unfamiliar with (…do I pass two ints and a string or two strings and an int?). However, it is a feature which can frustrate you in just trying to…
PowerBuilder – More Datawindow Mouseover Effects
So I download the latest Chrome browser beta the other day (v17) and I notice a neat effect on the tabs prior to applying my custom settings. A gradient centered on my mouse pointer passed across the tab as I moved it. It was very subtile but noticiable if you were paying attention. Naturally I…
PowerBuilder 12.5 ‘Classic’ – New Feature
I just stumbled on a neat new feature in the datawindow painter, specifically on the background tab of a column. The Gradient stuff was added in 10.5 (I believe) and now you can actually see the numeric value of the slider bar without having to pick through the source. Refer to the following: All of…
