Calling Web Service from Powerbuilder

On the last post, I explained how to make web service with Powerbuilder. This time I will explain how to access the web service via PowerBuilder. I am using the Classic version of PowerBuilder 12.5.

The scenario is you have a windows application created with PowerBuilder and you want to access a web service over the internet within the Powerbuilder application.

All you need is certainly a web service that is ready to use. You can get it for free on the internet, or create your own web service. In this example I will create a self service web applications using Visual Studio 2008 and run. NET framework 3.5. In the web service, there is a function that we named of_add2value which serves to add 2 numbers through which we put on the parameters of these functions.

Picture Control on Grid Datawindow

Anvil-of-time, one of my colleague, expert on Powerbuilder programming, share to us how to using picture control on Grid Datawindow. One of importing feature on grid datawindow is capability to re-size the column width in user side, like what you have see on Microsoft Excel.

And because of re-size feature, when we put the picture control inside the grid datawindow, when we do the column resizing, the picture will stretched following the size of the column.

(c) Anvil-of-time

Let's take a look of the full article of the tips and trick how to using picture control in grid datawindow, by clicking here

PowerBuilder 15 Classic Sneak Preview

Seem, that Sybase will jump directly from 12 into 15 for Powerbuilder.

Frederick Koh explains one of the feature in version 15 for WindowType value called: mdidock! and mdidockhelp! for the window object. Like values mdi! and mdihelp!, respectively, they allow child windows (sheets) to be opened with the OpenSheet functions. But these sheets will behave differently: they can dock, float and be tabbed like the windows you see in our PB.NET IDE.