** 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)
** 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)
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)
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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)
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)