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Applying a New UI Theme to Your Application

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Written by * Appeon *

Published: 06 May 2020

Last Updated: 11 May 2020

This tutorial is an update to the 2019 tutorial. If you have zero experience with the UI Theme feature, please first follow our Quick Start tutorial. If you are ready to gain a comprehensive understanding of this feature and dive deeper into UI Theme settings, then please proceed with this updated tutorial.

Starting from PowerBuilder 2019, Appeon added the UI theme feature to PowerBuilder so that developers can codelessly control how commonly-used controls and objects render during application runtime.

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UI Theme Quick Start Tutorial

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Written by * Appeon *

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 06 May 2020

Last Updated: 07 May 2020

This quick start tutorial walks you through the 3 simple steps to apply the UI Theme to your PowerBuilder application. For more advanced techniques, such as how to define a customized theme and how to define theme settings for selected objects/controls, you may refer to the advanced tutorial: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/301-applying-a-new-ui-theme-to-your-application-2.

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Como Instalar PowerBuilder 2019 R2

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Written by Oscar Uriel Tobar Rios

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 29 April 2020

Last Updated: 29 April 2020

En este vídeo veremos los requisitos de hardware para instalar PowerBuilder 2019 R2, como se descarga la versión trial y como es el proceso de instalación.

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RibbonBar Menu Generator

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Written by Bruce Armstrong

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 16 April 2020

Last Updated: 16 April 2020

I've uploaded a small utility (PowerBuilder source code) to CodeXchange here that you can run on the menus in your applications and create RibbonBar XML based on them. It's intended to quick start your migration from existing menus to the RibbonBar I'm expecting that you're going to want to tweak the output somewhat after it's generated. however, it is a whole lot better from having to create them from scratch.

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How to use HTTPClient or RESTClient to call an API with basic authentication

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Written by * Appeon *

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 09 April 2020

Last Updated: 13 April 2020

Background

Almost every API requires some sort of authentication. Basic authentication is the simplest way to handle authentication. Here we are going to do a simple example to show you how to use HTTPClient or RESTClient to call an API with basic authentication.

Access a simple API with basic authentication in IE

Let’s take a simple basic authentication API from the Internet as an example.

If we input https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Basic/ in IE and press Enter, then input Username: guest; Password: guest in the pop-up login window.

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Call WCF Services Using HTTPClient or RESTClient Objects

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Written by * Appeon *

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 30 March 2020

Last Updated: 09 April 2020

Background

Prior to PowerBuilder 2017 R2, the SoapClient did not support calling WCF Services.

In PowerBuilder 2017 R2 and the latter versions, the HTTPClient object is available, through which you can call WCF Services.

In PowerBuilder 2019, the RESTClient object is strengthened, now you can also call the WCF Services.

How to use HTTPClient object to consume a WCF Service

a. To get the methods and parameters to consume the WCF Service.

Normally when you open a WCF Service website, you will get the following page:

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Exporting Datawindows to Excel / Html without losing Format

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Written by Eduardo G.

Category: PowerBuilder

Published: 04 May 2017

Last Updated: 26 March 2020

I have a function called "GuardarAExcel2()" which uses a step datawindow called "d_filafichero". With this function you generate an excel with the same visual aspect as your datawindow. I hope it helps you:

Example of use:

GuardarAExcel2( dw_1, "c:\Report.xls")
GuardarAExcel2( dw_1, "c:\Report.html")

Result in datawindow:

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