Chris Pollach

** Hot News ** Get PB before April 15, 2013 Here is the actual announcement from PB product manager Sue Dunnell ... April 11, 2013 Dear Valued Sybase Customer: This letter provides notification of the end of sale for the following versions of Sybase PowerBuilder. Product Platform End of Sale Migration Path PowerBuilder 12.x Windows 04/15/2013 PowerBuilder 12.5.2 PowerBuilder 12.5.x Windows 04/15/2013 PowerBuilder 12.5.2 Please note that EBFs for PowerBuilder 11.x, 11.5.x, 12.x and 12.5.x (except for PowerBuilder 12.5.2) will no longer be available as of April 15, 2013. If you have any questions, please call your local Sybase Technical Support Center.  One of our Customer Service representatives will respond to your questions or direct your call to someone who can.  For the number of your closest Technical Support Center, please go to: www.sybase.com/contactus/support. Tha... (more)

Appeon 2013 - Product Release

** SUPER Hot News ** Appeon Announces General Availability of Appeon Mobile Hong Kong - May 3, 2013 – Appeon® Corporation today announced the general availability of Appeon Mobile, the first cross-OS native-technology MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) for SAP developers.  Appeon Mobile works with most SAP technology infrastructure products, including SAP PowerBuilder, NetWeaver, Afaria, SQL Anywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, IQ and HANA.  Unlike typical MEAP, Appeon Mobile is powered by native technology that delivers the best performance, memory management, applicat... (more)

Appeon Mobile: First-Ever Mobility Solution for the PowerBuilder Community

Hot news, just out: Novalys SAS announced on March 7, 2012 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Appeon Corporation to distribute the first-ever mobility solution for the PowerBuilder community. Leveraging Appeon’s over a decade of experience in PowerBuilder web deployment and its core technology platform, Appeon is developing a mobile deployment solution for PowerBuilder – Appeon Mobile. Appeon Mobile will offer the simplest, fastest, and lowest-cost mobile development option for the PowerBuilder developer community. Under the agreement, Novalys will market, sell... (more)

PB 12.5.2 - Major Toolbar Problem

** Hot News ** PowerBuilder 12.5.2 Release Major Problem Hi Everyone;    I would not rush to install PB 12.5.2 (build 5006).     As soon as you do - all your custom toolbar settings are killed and you can not get the mappings back! This includes both the InfoMaker and PowerBuilder IDE's For example, when you add a new icon (built-in or custom) - the InfoMaker or PowerBuilder 12.5.2 main power-bar will shrink to just the EXIT door. Try as you may, the toolbar can not be customized any further! It will show the new toolbar setting properly in the customization dialog's preview area - b... (more)

PB Event Order

PowerBuilder - Events and Precedence      The order in which events happen within a PowerBuilder Classic application is in most cases, a very predictable model. The PB developer should be aware of this aspect when developing GUI based applications. For instance, when focus is shifted from one object to another object, the first object will experience the Modified and LoseFocus events before the second object experiences a get focus event. To understand this further, consider the following scenarios and the resulting events.   An Application starts and window "A" is opened APPLICATI... (more)