Discussions tagged PFC
How can I use dragdrop to rearrange rows on dw?
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 17 hours ago
Hi all,
I need to be able to re-arrange rows on my dw with dragdrop. This works fine in my legacy code. I'm using PB2021 and PFC 12.5 .
My dw has row select service on, one row at a time. When I set the dw DragAuto option ON, the row select d...
Can I respond to DDE commands from a Datawindow control?
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
I'm still re-working a lot of my old code. My application supports DDE for communication with 3rd party Instrumentation software mostly written in LabView (ACPs). All of the commands are at the window level in the original code. I'm moving...
How to call a function on a tab object?
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
I have a tab object inherited from u_tab: utab_folder. Another tab object inherited from utab_folder: utab_lab. In utab_folder I defined an instance variable u_tab itab_This, and in the constructor event of utab_folder I set the itab_This ...
How do I enable Sorting on Master/Detail window
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
Took me a few days to get the Column sort to work, but it's working great now. I have a question: I have a few master/detail windows. When I click on a column label in the master dw to sort by that column, it sorts fine, but the detail dw ...
How to I set column sorting on a dw?
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
I've got a few grid style DW's that I'd like to automatically sort when the user clicks on the column name (label). I'm using PB2021 and the latest PFC. The dw's inherit from u_dw. I'm turning on the sort service, but it seems to be ignore...
Prevent Value Required Message from displaying
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
In my dw, I have a column that requires the user to double-click to select a value from another table (Search screen). This works great, but before the Select response window displays, I get a message "Value Required for this Item"... twice. How ca...
Strange popup menu displaying after RMB popup
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
I'm using the latest PFC in my PB2021 development. In the u_dw object, I over-ride the anscestor pfc script for lbuttondown, lbuttonup, rbuttondown, and rbuttonup events. In the descendent dw, I add the following code to the rbuttonup even...
Hi all,
I'm testing out pfc tab objects, and I have a question about the resize service. In the constructor event of the tab object, I enable the resize service and register all of the resizable objects:
integer li_rcitab_This = this
of_setresize...
Why use the pfc tab object?
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- PowerObject ! replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
I'm upgrading most of the windows in my app, using PFC objects as much as possible. I have 5 or 6 windows that use the tab object. Is there a reason I would use the pfc tab object? If I use the pfc tab object, do I also need to use the pf...
How can I use F9 to invoke pfc_operators event in dw?
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- Roland Smith replied 2 months ago
Hi all,
I'm trying to use the F9 key to trigger the pfc_operators event and open the Operators response window. I created a user event on my dw named ue_keypress with arguments key (keycode) and keyflags (unsignedlong). Right now, the event just ha...
PFC Linkage Service works in w_main but not w_sheet
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Hi all,
I'm testing linkage service in PB2021 with latest PFC. I inherited a new window from w_sheet and copied the code from the PFC example (w_linkageretrieval) and changed the dws and retrieval arguments. Can't get it to work to save my life. ...
Trouble getting pfc QueryMode service to work
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 2 months ago
Hi all,I'm doing a very simple query window. I can put the dw in query mode, but when I retrieve, my query parameters are ignored and nothing is returned.
Here's the code for the dw://Constructorthis.of_SetUpdateable( FALSE )
// First, enable the D...
What's the difference between w_master and w_sheet?
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- John Fauss replied 3 months ago
Hi all,
I'm upgrading to PB 2021 and the latest version of PFC. Trying to upgrade some of my application windows, object, etc. to make better use of the PFC. Does anyone know what the difference is between pfc_w_master and pfc_w_sheet?
Thank you,...
PFC split-bar isn't resizing all objects
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 3 months ago
Hi Friends,
I'm migrating to PB 2021, and the most recent PFC. My old PFC files are over 20 years old! We have several windows that use something like "home made" split bar in conjunction with the linking service. We had written code to do our ow...
PFC Datawindow Resize without PFC
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- Ramón San Félix Ramón replied 3 months ago
I've tried the example titled "PFC Resize without PFC" by Kevin Ridley (https://community.appeon.com/index.php/codeexchange/powerbuilder/268-pfc-resize-without-pfc#409) and it works fine for window controls, but I've tried to get resizing to work on ...
PFC_Print, Print Preview fix/advice
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- Last updated 4 months ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 months ago
I'm tasked with maintaining/updating a legacy app that was written in an early version of Powerbuilder. We've upgraded to 2021 and are trying to make some menu modifications with 'Print' and 'Print Preview'.
Currently when hitting 'Print' it fails w...
I have recently inherited a PowerBuilder 10.5.1 application that was originally created with PB5 with PFC and migrated. Before I purchase PB2021, will this application migrate to the newest version of Appeon PB2021?...
PFC 'peat' database version
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- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Keating replied 11 months ago
I have SQL anywhere 16 installed but am having problems connecting to the peat.db file for the PFC examples (I've tried the current version of the PFC and the 2017 version). I'm gettting a 'file was created with a different version of the software' ...
Frame turns grey after opening a sheet from Ribbon bar
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hello everyone,
I have an issue with my ribbon bar. At initialization it looks perfect but if I open a sheet from the ribbon, the whole frame turns grey and I can't see anything in the screen anymore.
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ScrollBars and Tab's are not fully visible after migrating from PB11 to PB19
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
We have migrated our code from PB11 to PB19-R2 and seeing following behaviours.
- Horzontal and Verticle Scroll Bars are not fully visible.- TAB control's header are not fully visible
We tried adjusting the various UI properties for TAB, Windo...
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