This section provides a high-level overview of supported PowerBuilder features in Appeon for PowerBuilder 5.0 Advanced Edition and Enterprise Edition.  For any supported feature, there may be usages that are not supported, such as specific events, properties or functions of an object.  This list by no means includes every supported feature, but aims to capture those most commonly used in PowerBuilder applications.

Appeon 5.0 Advanced Edition deploys PowerBuilder applications in pure JavaScript, while the Enterprise Edition additionally supports deployment with Appeon Xcelerator.  Appeon Xcelerator enables the application deployed with Appeon to support additional PowerBuilder client/server features that cannot be implemented with pure JavaScript.

For more information on supported PowerBuilder features, download the Appeon Supported Features Guide or Appeon Supported Features Help.

Controls

Supports 34 PowerBuilder controls including:
CheckBox, CommandButton, DataWindow, DropDownListBox, DropDownPictureListBox, EditMask, GroupBox, HProgressBar*, HScrollBar*, HTrackBar*, Line, ListBox, ListView, MultiLineEdit, OLEControl*, OLECustomControl*, Oval*, Picture, PictureButton, PictureHyperlink, PictureListBox, RadioButton, Rectangle, RoundRectangle*, SingleLineEdit, StaticHyperlink, StaticText, Tab, TreeView, VProgressBar*, VScrollBar*, VTrackBar*,Graph*, RichTextEdit*.

System Objects

Supports 32 PowerBuilder objects including:
Application, Connection, CORBAObject, DataStore, DataWindowChild, DragObject, DWObject, DynamicStagingArea, Environment* , GraphicObject, ListViewItem, MenuCascade* , mailFileDescription*, mailMessage*, mailRecipient*, mailSession* , MDIClient, Menu (including Toolbar), Message, NonVisualObject, OLEObject, PowerObject, Transaction, TreeViewItem, UserObject, Window, WindowObject, DynamicDescriptionArea*, Inet*, InternetResult*, Timing*, DrawObject*.

Window

• Window types: All Window types including MDI sheet, MDI and MDIHelp, Main, Child, Popup and Response
• Document interface: Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and Single Document Interface (SDI)

DataWindow

Robust DataWindow support:

• DataWindow Presentation Styles: Composite, Crosstab, Freeform, Group, Graph, Grid, Nested, Label, N-Up, Tabular, RichText
• DataWindow Bands: Header, Detail, Footer, Trailer*& Summary
• DataWindow Buffers: Primary, Filter, Delete
• DataWindow Data Sources: SQL, Query, Stored Procedure, External
• DataWindow Column Style Types: EditMask, Edit, CheckBox, DropDownDataWindow, DropDownListBox, and RadioButton
• DataWindow Child: DataWindowChild with almost all DataWindow functions
• DataWindow Controls: Button, Column , ComputedField, GroupBox*, Line, Oval* , Picture*, Report*, Rectangle*, RoundRectangle*, Text
• DataWindow Describe & Modify
• DataWindow ImportFile* & ImportString* functions
• DataWindow ShareData & ShareDataOff
• DataWindow Dot Notation
• DataWindow Expressions & Operators
• DataWindow Validation Rules
• DataWindow Printing & SaveAs Automatically (No Coding) for PDF, Excel, HTML & Text

• Dynamic Tab Pages - OpenTab*, OpenTabWithParm* and CloseTab* functions

User Objects

• Custom class user objects
• Custom visual user objects
• Standard class user objects
• Standard visual user objects
• Dynamic User Objects: OpenUserObject*, OpenUserObjectWithParm* and CloseUserObject* functions
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PowerScript Features

• PowerScript Statements
  Assignment, CALL, CHOOSE...CASE, CONTINUE, CREATE, DESTROY, DO¡­LOOP, EXIT, FOR¡­NEXT, HALT, IF¡­THEN, RETURN, TRY...CATCH... FINALLY
• Reserved Words
• Pronouns (This, Parent, Super)
• Identifiers
• Operators & Expressions
• ASCII Characters (~n, ~t, etc.)
• Data Types & Constants
  Supports all standard data types:
  Blob* , Boolean, Char or character , Date, DateTime, Decimal, Double, Int or Integer , Long, Real, String, Time, UInt, ULong, UnsignedInt, UnsignedInteger, UnsignedLong
• Arrays
• Structures
• Null Values
• Statement Continuation/Separation
• Comments
• Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism

Events & Functions

• User Defined Events & Functions
• Global and Object Events & Functions
• Triggering & Posting Events
• Static Calls to Events & Functions
• Dynamic Calls to Events & Functions
• Extending, Overriding, and Overloading Events & Functions
• Arguments & Return Values
• External INI file, Registry and DLL support

System Functions

Array functions, Blob Functions*, Data Type Checking and Conversion functions, Date, Day, and Time functions, File Functions*, International functions, Miscellaneous functions, Numeric functions, Print* & Printer* functions, Registry functions, String functions, System and Environment functions, Timing functions, Window functions, DDE Client Functions*

Embedded SQL

• Cursor/Non-Cursor SQL Statements
• Dynamic SQL Statements - Format 1, 2, 3 and 4
• Stored Procedure SQL Statements
• Transaction Management