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Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part III
Introduction In this third installment of the series, we’ll compare and contrast the different types of Loop constructs available in both PowerScript and Swift. If you want to start at the beginning, here are Part 1 and Part 2. Overview … Continue reading
Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part II
Introduction This is the second of a series of posts that introduce the Swift programming language and the Xcode IDE to PowerBuilder developers. Part 1 can be found here: Swift for PowerBuilder Developers: Part 1 In this installment, we’ll talk … Continue reading
Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part I
Introduction I’ve been a developer most of my career, and I’ve worked with a number of different programming languages. I spent most of the 90’s and early 00’s working in PowerBuilder. I still think it’s one of the cleanest, easiest … Continue reading
There’s a new Sheriff in town…
…and its name is SySAM. Sybase Software Asset Management 2.0, to be more precise. This is the new software licensing mechanism, based on FlexNET, that now governs a good portion of the Sybase product catalog. It has been in use … Continue reading
Posted in PowerBuilder, Software
Tagged 11.x, licensing, PowerBuilder, SySAM
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Datawindows: They’re not just for DATA anymore!!!
OK, we all know that the “selling point” for PowerBuilder’s datawindow object is the ease with which it can retrieve data from a relational database, abstract out the complexities of binding that data to visual controls in the UI layer, … Continue reading
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Tagged 11.5, datawindow, PowerBuilder, Sybase
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3rd-party PB Tools (episode 2)
This is the second post in the “Tools that all PB developers should be familiar with” thread. We’re going to stick with PBLPeeper for now, but we’ll be looking at a the PBDEBUG file viewer. This is quite possibly, the … Continue reading
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Tagged pbdebug, PBLPeeper, PowerBuilder, Sybase, Terry Voth
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Working with PowerBuilder painter layouts
PowerBuilder adopted a new overall painter layout for the IDE with the release of 7.0. (I know that was over a decade ago, and the majority of development shops should have upgraded since then, but you’d be surprised at the … Continue reading
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Tagged IDE, layouts, panes, PowerBuilder
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Adding custom colors to your PowerBuilder palette
Have you ever noticed the sixteen “Custom” selections in the dropdownlist for any of the color properties? In this list, you can select one of twenty “base” colors (Black, White, Sky, Cream, etc.), or you can select a color that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged color selection, PowerBuilder, Sybase
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Simulating Adobe Flex’s “RowOver” behavior in PowerBuilder 11.5
“RowOver” is a term I’m officially coining right now. 😉 It’s that visual cue that you see when you’re moving the mouse over the rows in a datagrid (tabular or grid-style datawindow for you PB folks), and the row under … Continue reading
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