Dan Coppersmith

PowerBuilder 7's IDE has many new features that can speed the development of an application. However, I've had a hard time adjusting to the change in the database painter. Despite the added features, the catalog maintenance and database administrator are slightly more difficult to use. This article discusses a tool we created to help maintain the PB catalog tables. Catalog Tables When you connect to a data source for the first time, PowerBuilder attempts to create five tables in which it stores information for use in datawindow and database painters. This catalog can speed your development time as well as enforce application standards by allowing you to define column headers, font faces and sizes, justification, and more. It's a useful PB feature and should be used in every development effort where a standard look and feel in the datawindows is desired. Since datawi... (more)

A PB Catalog Information Utility

PowerBuilder 7's IDE has many new features that can speed the development of an application. However, I've had a hard time adjusting to the change in the database painter. Despite the added features, the catalog maintenance and database administrator are slightly more difficult to use. This article discusses a tool we created to help maintain the PB catalog tables. Catalog Tables When you connect to a data source for the first time, PowerBuilder attempts to create five tables in which it stores information for use in datawindow and database painters. This catalog can speed your d... (more)