To this day my mother refuses to make deposits via her bank's ATM. Her reason is a valid one: she doesn't trust a machine with her money. You get no real validation from the ATM, just a receipt stating the amount you said was in your envelope.

A component that's sitting on EAServer doesn't do us any good unless we call it from somewhere. We may call these components from several different sources. In this article we'll call them from the Active Server Pages (ASP) front end.

The HTML DataWindow is a great starting tool for any PB programmer. When I began developing applications for the Web knowing little if any HTML, using the HTML DataWindow enabled me to deploy data to the Web immediately.

PowerBuilder 7's IDE has many new features that can speed the development of an application. However, I've had a hard time adjusting to the change in the database painter. Despite the added features, the catalog maintenance and database administrator are slightly more difficult to use.

In the October issue of PBDJ we worked on the design for our mail server on Jaguar. This is more accurately called an MDA, or Mail Delivery Agent. What we're writing isn't the application that will receive raw messages from the Internet, parse them out, then store them for another appl

Techno-Kitten.com announced the release of the lastest version of PBL Peeper. Version 1.3.1 includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes and can be downloaded from their Web site. www.techno-kitten.com PBBrowser Beta 8/19 OOWidgets announced the availability of a beta version of

Most PowerBuilder developers are aware of object-oriented concepts like inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. A lot has been said about them, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel by discussing what they are and how they're used in PB applications. The main purpose of this ar

Imagine creating a DropDownDataWindow look and feel using HTML form elements that can show more than one column in a ListBox on a Web page. The data elements could be generated using Web server-side technologies such as JavaServer Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP), and ColdFusion

My first column on Sherlock appeared in the August issue of PBDJ (Vol. 7, issue 8). In that article we set up our development environment. Now we need to log in. Before we do that let's review just a bit.

This issue of PBDJ contains an article written by Tom Hughes that provides us with a service object quite suitable for traditional two-tier applications. My article shows how to expand that technology and move the object to a Jaguar component so we can handle e-mail from a central spot

This year's TechWave was a marked improvement over the last few years. Overall I'd have to say that 1994 and 1995 were the best Sybase Tools conferences ever. Since then their value to me has declined, though they were still worth the time and money. The two areas in which I've been di

'Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, we hope you will attend, step inside, step inside.' Those words - from an old song by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - have been floating through my head all day, ever since I decided on the subject of my next series of articles on the

Since Web DataWindow technology is now used as a building block for many applications, Sybase decided to enhance this functionality and provide some much needed bug fixes. I recently met with the Web DataWindow team to demonstrate what I've been doing for my clients and to discuss some

Okay, it's a common enough observation - heck, it may even be a cliché - but ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, some clichés are true: presentation is everything.

One of the greatest selling points of the PowerJ development environment is its ability to use DataWindows. The same DataWindow that's created in PowerBuilder, and a major contributor to the success of that environment, is available to the Java programmer who uses PowerJ.

In this article I'll share my experiences of working with the PFC DropDown Calendar and show you how to make this custom user object user-friendly. If you've tried to use this custom visual object, you may have discovered that the PFC Calendar won't populate a calendar if you use a dat

Almost every application has one or more long-running processes. Typically these are things like importing, export and reporting. Waiting for the processes to complete can be tedious for your users. There are techniques you can use to make this less painful. When designing a long runn

We've finally reached the end of this series - the fifth and final installment on graphing techniques. By the end of this article you should know enough about graphing to be really good at it. There's still a lot about graphing that I haven't covered, but there's a lot to discuss about

There are files that come with EAServer that were hidden from me when I first started using EAS. These files, primarily utilities, can solve some common and important programming tasks. This article essentially covers two of these files or utilities, one named javaqry.ssc; and the othe

Overloading allows two or more functions to have the same name and return type, if their signature is different. The function signature is defined by its number and types of arguments. When you call an overloaded function, PowerBuilder decides which version of the function to call base

Java servlets, one of the hottest topics in programming today, are Java's method of writing CGI-type programs that interact with the Web browser and deliver dynamic HTML pages to the end user. Traditionally these programs have been written in C++ or Perl. Since C++ is compiled to nativ

So far we've made significant headway in our understanding of graphing. In our first exercise (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issue 1) we learned some of the basics. The next three articles (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issues 2, 3 and 4) concerned line graphs. We created a simple one and added tool tips to it. In my

Some of the most popular new features in PowerBuilder 7 are the wizards because they make it easy to perform complicated, multipart tasks. However, the first time I ran PB7 and attempted to create a Jaguar component I was stunned to find identically labeled, as well as nearly identical

After years of considering what types of controls to put in a Web page, the main technologies that work are ActiveX, Java and DHTML. I thought only Java or ActiveX could provide the types of controls I needed, until I saw the game Asteroids, written in DHTML.

In my previous articles on graphing (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issues 2 and 3) we created a simple line graph. We then extended the graph in order to have a tool tip that would work with it. This article will expand on that idea and show you how to do a series. My next article will begin exploring

Imagine hiring a crew to put an addition on your home. As capable as they seem, you can't help being concerned over the fact that they've shown up for work without any power tools. Every instrument they use looks like it came from Olsen's Mercantile in Little House on the Prairie. Whe

Imagine creating your own Web browser that can provide the full power of Internet Explorer (IE) including scripting, parsing and rendering of HTML pages. It has become standard for stand-alone and client/server applications to contain Web browsers. A perfect example is Intuit's popular

In my last article (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issue 2) I described how to create a simple application for unit testing, and then explained a simple line graph that went with it. This month we'll build on that concept, using some techniques I showed you in an earlier article (Vol. 7, issue 1) on T

You stumble on a bug in your application. In order to troubleshoot it you need to see the raw data inside your DataWindow but the columns you need aren't visible. ... You open a window in your application, and even though you don't change any of its data it still prompts you to save w

When I sit down to write this column I always ask myself, 'What can I write that will be the most help to DataWindow programmers?' At the moment I'm also in the final production stages of my new book, The Definitive DataWindow. This morning, while glancing at my chapter on 'Graphing,'

One of the typical problems developers face when using the HTML DataWindow (HTML DW) is that there's no SetRowFocusIndicator() method to allow users to see which row is the current one. This can confuse the user and lead to errors. For example, without a current row indicator users may

A tool tip, which appears in several modern applications, is a small text area that floats over an object when the cursor comes to rest on it. Microsoft Word has it - in fact, PowerBuilder itself incorporates tool tips. Rest your cursor on any item in the toolbar and a moment later a t

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is one customer who's leveraged PowerBuilder and EAServer to develop an intranet solution. This application has provided BCBSRI with tremendous cost savings and enhanced performance.

In this month's column I'll show you how to use the PFC multitable update service. This service, as you might expect, allows the DataWindow to update more than one table. Multitable update, one of the least used PFC services, has been around since version 5.0. I'll demonstrate how you

In Part 1 of this article (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issue 1) I compared Java to PowerScript. We covered some of the fundamentals of Java language - identifiers, primitive data types and primitive data type wrappers - and PowerBuilder's any data type, and we began to discuss relational operators,

You stumble on a bug in your application. In order to troubleshoot it you need to see the raw data inside your DataWindow but the columns you need aren't visible. ... You open a window in your application, and even though you don't change any of its data it still prompts you to save w

When I sit down to write this column I always ask myself, 'What can I write that will be the most help to DataWindow programmers?' At the moment I'm also in the final production stages of my new book, The Definitive DataWindow. This morning, while glancing at my chapter on 'Graphing,'

With the industry buzzwords being Java, Java, and more Java, I wrote this article to provide insight into how you can leverage your knowledge of PowerScript and PowerBuilder to quickly learn and build Java programs. I'm going to assume that you're familiar with PowerBuilder and the OOP