Vol: 07 Iss: 06 Read Back Issues

DataWindows in PowerJ - Should You Use Them? 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. Jun. 15, 2000  Reads: 9,442

Looking Ahead I remember the first time I saw Mitchell Kertzman; it was at the first annual International Users Convention. I heaped praise on PowerBuilder, then issued him a stern warning. I told him that I was a great fan of PowerBuilder, but the moment it lost its edge I would jump ship. Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 5,894

Live Editing Jaguar Components - Helpful but Dangerous Live Editing is a feature specific to Jaguar components. When enabled, it causes a component to be deployed automatically to Jaguar whenever that object is saved in the User Object Painter. When it's not enabled, the developer must manually deploy the object to the Jaguar server by exe... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 5,321

Opening Doors with Distributed PowerBuilder Shared and remote objects - powerful features of DPB for business applications - can also be used in industrial settings. If you've been handling serial communications with many types of devices - such as gate security, pump controllers or PLCs that need to know what they're doing, or ... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 4,859

A Heads-Up on TechWave Once again Sybase's annual conference is quickly approaching. TechWave 2000 will be held at the location most popular among past attendees, Disney World's Swan and Dolphin hotels, from July 30 through August 3. Following the precedent set last year, this year's TechWave will cover all ... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 5,183

Maintaining A Treeview Display Using Recursion When I took a class on data structures with C++ at Brooklyn College, one of the topics emphasized was recursion. At first it didn't make much sense, and I wondered why we even bothered when other techniques were more understandable. Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 7,829

Achieving Adaptability Through Application Servers However boring it might be, I believe that infrastructure is the key to e-business success. More specifically, it's having (or building) an adaptable application and IT infrastructure that can adjust to new business needs and competitive challenges over time, thus providing a competiti... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 4,505

Building the Executable, Pt. 1 This month I'll show you how to prepare a completed PowerBuilder application for deployment to users. PowerBuilder lets you develop and deploy applications for many application architectures. This month (and next) I'll try to help you make decisions about creating an executable and pac... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 8,362

Building UltraLight Applications - Mobile Devices Come Into Their Own For several years we've been creating large applications that tend to encompass sizable feature sets required for enterprise applications. The term fat client comes to mind....Over the years we've seen significant changes in application architectures, from client/server to n-tier to In... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 6,947

User Interface Design for Long Running Processes 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... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 6,809

Graphing V 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... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 9,098

Using the PFC Calendar with a Datetime Column 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... Jun. 1, 2000  Reads: 6,860