Lynn Hardin

My presentation at TechWave 2006 is intended for the beginner or the moderately experienced PowerBuilder developer. I hope to share some of the useful tips and tricks I have picked up in my 12 years as a PowerBuilder developer. I began using PowerBuilder in 1994 with release 3.0. The PFC did not exist; in fact, the concept of a "class library" was brand new. We had to use native PowerBuilder and build every object from scratch. Even so, PowerBuilder and, in particular, the DataWindow made RAD truly rapid. So let's start with a few simple, but truly useful, items. Converting a Tabular DataWindow to a Grid DataWindow Perhaps the most useful trick is the ability to convert a tabular DataWindow to a grid and vice versa. In version 9.x of PowerBuilder, you can right-click and edit source on an object. This is much less frightening than exporting to a script and then impo... (more)