Gan Ya-qin is a member of the PowerBuilder Engineering team responsible for the conception, implementation, and testing of the new DataWindow and graph features in PowerBuilder 11.5.
In PowerBuilder 11.5 we introduce features that allow you to easily give your
existing DataWindows a new look and feel. New properties are added to columns
and controls to allow you to add tooltips. You no longer have to settle for
single-colored backgrounds. We have introduced properties to control color
gradients and translucency for the background of columns, and most controls
and bands. For the DataWindow background, in addition to color gradients, you
can use bitmaps as wallpaper, giving you control over how the image is tiled.
Since these new properties are DataWindow properties, they are
expression-enabled - they can be bound to data - think of them as novel ways
of doing computed columns. Play around with text translucency - it's now
another property alongside the good old font properties.
A new column edit style is introduced - RichText. Your data no longer ... (more)
Gan Ya-qin is a member of the PowerBuilder Engineering team responsible for the conception, implementation, and testing of the new DataWindow and graph features in PowerBuilder 11.5.
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