FREE PowerBuilder Online Courses

Advanced PowerBuilder 5 & 6

• MDI Applications - Objectives
• Review of Course - I
• Introduction
• MDI Concepts
• MDI Basics
• Converting to a MDI Application
• Opening an Instance of a Window
• Creating a New User Interface
• Resizing the Controls Automatically
• Arranging Sheets
• Displaying 'About' Window
• Displaying a Background Logo
• Minimizing App. When Idle
• Customizing Toolbars
• Scoping Variables
• Communication Between Objects
• Displaying Popup Menu on the DataWindow
• Summary
• Exercises
• Advanced DataWindows - I
• DataWindow Buffers
• DataWindow - Data Validation
• Course 2:: Session 11 :: Page 40
• DataWindow Update Properties
• Multiple Table DataWindow Update
• Parent-Child Tables Data-Entry
• DropDown/Child DataWindows
• Modifying DDDW Dynamically
• Dynamic DataWindows
• An Overview of Modifying Data Source Definitions
• The DW Syntax Tool
• Creating DataWindows Dynamically
• Summary
• Exercises:
• Object Orientation - PB Implementation
• What are Objects?
• Objects Basics
• Inheritance
• Using Inheritance in PowerBuilder
• Course 2:: Session 12 :: Page 60
• Inheriting Menu Objects
• Multiple Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Course 2:: Session 12 :: Page 100
• Polymorphism
• Polymorphism - PB Implementation
• PowerBuilder's Class Hierarchy
• The Object Browser
• Summary
• User Objects
• Introduction
• Creating a Standard User Object
• Custom User Objects
• External User Objects
• VBX user objects (Only till version 4.0)
• Standard Class
• Custom Class
• Notes on User Object Programming
• Summary
• Exercises
• C++ Class User Objects
• What is a C++ Class User Object?
• How C++ User Objects Differ from other User Objects ?
• Why Use a C++ User Object?
• Dynamic Link Libraries
• Linking Libraries
• The Contents of a DLL
• PowerBuilder and C++ Data Types
• Creating C++ Classes
• Debugging DLLs
• Limits of a C++ User Object
• Other Issues to Consider
• Embedded & Dynamic SQL
• Introduction
• Embedded SQL - PowerBuilder Implementation
• Cursors
• Stored Procedures
• Dynamic SQL
• Format 1
• Format 2
• Format 3
• Format 4
• Summary
• External Functions
• Introduction
• Declaring External Functions
• Data types for External Function Arguments
• External Functions Arguments
• Calling an External Function
• Calling an External Subroutine
• Multimedia and PowerBuilder
• Call-Back External Functions
• Stored Procedures - External Functions
• Cross Platform Issues
• Summary
• Debugging Applications
• Running Your Application
• Stop Points
• Solutions to Common Debugging Problems
• Closing the Debug Window
• Tracing PowerBuilder's Internal Execution
• Logging SQL Statement Execution
• Tracing ODBC Driver Manager Calls
• General Protection Fault Errors
• New Debugger in Version 6.0
• Summary
• Dynamic Data Exchange
• Introduction
• DDE Concepts
• Links
• DDE Events in PowerBuilder
• Using DDE with PowerBuilder
• Importing Excel Spreadsheet using DDE
• Importing a Spreadsheet using Clipboard
• Using Excel Names
• Hot Link with Excel
• Mail Merge
• PowerBuilder as a DDE Server
• OLE - Part I
• Introduction
• What is Linking and Embedding?
• Linking or Embedding
• Model
• OLE Features
• Why Implement OLE?
• DDE versus OLE
• Registration Database
• OLE - PowerBuilder Implementation
• Opening a File in a OLE_20 Control
• Opening a Sub-Storage
• Insert Class in the OLE Control
• Inserting an Existing File in the OLE Control
• Inserting an Object in the OLE Control
• Saving the Object From the OLE Control
• Saving the OLE Control as Another File
• Linking the OLE Control's Object To a File
• Getting Image From the Database to OLE Control
• Updating the Database BLOB Column from OLE Control
• Copying the OLE Control
• Cutting the OLE Control Object
• Pasting an Object in the OLE Control
• In-Place Editing & OLE Server Menus
• OLE Columns in the DataWindow
• OLE Presentation Style DataWindow
• OLE 2.0 Control in the DataWindow
• Summary