Add an Office-style ribbon to a PowerBuilder application
An Office-style ribbon above a PowerBuilder window: application menu, quick access toolbar, split buttons, a gallery, contextual tabs and live themes, driven in PowerScript.
Guides
Modernize a PowerBuilder application, step by step
Each tutorial builds a real application, with all its code, shipped in the demonstration application (Tutorials tab).
Replace MessageBox() in PowerBuilder: themed dialogs and toast notifications
Replace MessageBox() with themed dialogs — main instruction, validated input, choices, folded details — and inform without blocking with toast notifications, with Undo and progress.
Dockable panels in PowerBuilder: a Visual Studio layout for your window
A Visual Studio layout for a PowerBuilder window: your DataWindow and controls in panels the user drags, stacks, folds or floats, a View menu, a question before closing unsaved work, and the layout kept for the next session.
Call a REST API from PowerBuilder: JSON into a DataStore and a grid, and back
Call a REST API from PowerBuilder, version 10 to 2025: a JSON list straight into a DataStore and a grid, asynchronous requests that never freeze the window, answers read by path, JSON bodies built for POST and PUT, and errors handled properly.
A modern data grid in PowerBuilder, fed by your DataStore
Keep the DataWindow for the data, and show it in a modern grid: rich cells, totals, grouping, a filter row, editing written back into the DataStore, CSV and Excel exports, the layout kept.
A sales dashboard in PowerBuilder: KPI tiles, charts and a gauge, live
An animated sales dashboard: KPI tiles in rich text, columns and a line against a target, a doughnut that filters the page when clicked, a gauge, and a live mode.
An Outlook-like calendar in PowerBuilder: booking meeting rooms
The meeting rooms of the week in an Outlook-like calendar: the rows of a DataStore, rooms side by side, colour categories, drag and drop written back, with a veto when a room is taken.
Security in PowerBuilder: hashed passwords, two-factor sign-in, encrypted files, API tokens
Hashed passwords, two-factor sign-in with authenticator apps, a database password kept by Windows, an encrypted file and a signed API token, in PowerScript.