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Professional PowerBuilder 
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A complete hands-on reference covering the fundamentals of Powerbuilder applications development. Covers interface development, scripts, data types, accessing external database information, compiling, debugging and project management. Paper. CD ROM included.The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
This book will teach you to build client/server applications with PowerBuilder and learn PowerBuilder from the ground up.
More Professional Powerbuilder
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Book Info
Presents sophisticated PowerBuilder techniques to help you build more powerful, effective applications and to do it more quickly. Covers Windows API, performance and tuning, and communicating among objects. Paper. CD ROM included. DLC: Application software - Development.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
This book will teach you PowerBuilder from the ground up. You'll learn about the Painters that help you build an interface and other elements of your application; the Help system; and the basic definitions every PowerBuilder developer needs to understand.
Professional Powerbuilder Programming
1. What is Powerbuilder?
Powerbuilder Universe
Powerbuilder as a set of Painters
Customizing the toolbar
2. Overview of client-Server Computing
The Client
The Server
Client Server Architecture
POwerbuilder's Database
3. Introduction to Event-Driven Programming
MOdal vs. Nonmodal programming
Object-Orientated Programming
Encapsulation
Polymorphism
Inheritance
Obejct Class
4. What is a Powerbuilder Application?
Libraries
Application Events
Application Components
Application Creation
5. The Library Painter
Using the object Browser
Regenerating objects
Setting the Current Path for you PBL
6. The Window Painter
Changing window position and size
Window types
Events revisited
7. Window controls
Using Window controls
Setting tab order
Naming controls
8. Scripts and Datatypes
Powerbuilder Scripts
Significance of color
Ancestor Scripts
The toolbar
Null Values
Powerbuilder Functions
Declaring instance variables
External References to Windows
9. The Menu painter
Creating a menu
Cascading menus
Toolbars
Displaying popup menus
10 User Objects
Benefits of User Objects
Powerbuilder User Objects
Class User Objects
Non visual user objects
Standard User Objects
11. The Database and Administrator Painters
Connecting to the Database with profiles
Creating tables
Validation
Writing and executing SQL
12 The Datawindow Painter
Building an SQL Select Datawindow
Building an external DataWindow
Stored Procedures
Data Presentation Styles
13. The Datawindow Presentation
Laying out the Datawindow
Arranging fields
Edit styles
Data Validation
14 Datawindow controls
The control vs the object
Understanding transaction objects
Connecting to the database
Datawindow clicked event
15. More Datawindows
Events
Edit buffer
Data Validation
Functions to get data from a row/column
sorting and finding records
setting filters
16. Various Painters
Structure Painter
Function Painter
Debugger
17. Working with Multiple Datawindows
Linking DataWindows
Handling primary and foreign keys
transaction processing
18. Using SQL in Powerbuilder
Data manipulation language (DML)
Where clause
Group By clause
Data Definition Language (DDL)
19. Distributing the Application
Creating p-code executables
Machine code
Installing Disk Builder - PBSetup.exe Utility
PAUL BUKAUSKAS has worked for Ashton-Tate and Borland International and is President of Bright Ideas, a consulting company based in Los Angeles. He has worked extensively with PowerBuilder since verion 1.0