Tag Archives: PowerBuilder

Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part III

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Paul Horan

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 →

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Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part II

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Paul Horan

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 →

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Swift for PowerBuilder Developers – Part I

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Paul Horan

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 →

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There’s a new Sheriff in town…

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Paul Horan

…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 →

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More fun with PB’s new datawindow gradients – animated progress bars!

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Paul Horan

We all know that PB has the HProgressBar and VProgressBar controls, and they work exactly as advertised. You set the min/max position properties, the starting position, and the step increment, and then just call the StepIt() method to kick the … Continue reading →

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Datawindows: They’re not just for DATA anymore!!!

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Paul Horan

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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3rd-party PB Tools (episode 2)

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Paul Horan

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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Working with PowerBuilder painter layouts

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Paul Horan

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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Adding custom colors to your PowerBuilder palette

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Paul Horan

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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Simulating Adobe Flex’s “RowOver” behavior in PowerBuilder 11.5

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Paul Horan

“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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