Supported PB Features for Appeon Mobile (Mobile only)

Appeon® for PowerBuilder® 2016

FOR WINDOWS, UNIX & LINUX

DOCUMENT ID: ADC20234-01-0700-01

LAST REVISED: March 16, 2017

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Table of Contents

Basic Requirements and Recommendations
Overview
Basic Requirements
Requirements for Upgrading PowerBuilder Applications
Enhancements and Differences
Appeon security enhancement
Appeon Server open interfaces
Object/Control User Operation Differences
DataWindow user operation differences
System Objects and Controls
Common Features
Controls
Supported Controls
Unsupported controls
Objects
Supported Objects
Unsupported Objects
PowerScript Reference
PowerScript Topics
Object-Oriented programming
Language Basics
Data Types
Declarations
Operators & expressions
Structures
User Objects
Calling Functions and Events
Document Interface
PowerScript statements
Using PowerBuilder Source Editor
Embedded SQL
Database server and data types
Operators
Transaction management statements
Non-cursor statements
Cursor statements
Database stored procedures
Dynamic SQL
Functions
System functions
Supported functions
Unsupported functions
User functions
Events
Event types
System messages
System message (non-standard EventID)
DataWindow
DataWindow data sources
Using SQL statements in DataWindows
DataWindow presentation styles
Composite DataWindow
CrossTab DataWindow
Grouping in DataWindow
Graph DataWindow
TreeView DataWindow
Dynamic DataWindow
DataWindow operators and expressions
DataWindow object and the properties
DataWindow object
DataWindow object properties
DataWindow data and property expressions
DataWindow constants
DataWindow Control
DataStore Object
Controls in a DataWindow and their properties
Button
Column
Computed Field
Graph
GroupBox
Line
Oval
Picture
Rectangle
Report
Rounded rectangle
Text
DataWindowChild Object
DataWindow performance considerations
DBParm parameters in Database
Calling Web Service
PowerBuilder Document Object Model
Undetected Unsupported Features