Pocket PowerBuilder

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Pocket PowerBuilder

• v1.5 v1.5.1 New features

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Ian Thain Pocket PowerBuilder EvangelistPTOG
Evangelist Team, Sybase Inc.ian.thain_at_sybase.com
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Agenda

• Introduction
• History
• New Features
• Demos

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History

• V1.0 August 2003 (TechWave)
• V1.0.1 October/November 2003
• V1.5 January 2004
• V1.5.1 Beta Now
• March 2004 - JOLT
• Breaking new ground in PPC
  development
• PK is to mobile development as PB was (and still
  is) to Client Server development OUTSTANDING!
  Ian Thain PocketBuilder Technical Evangelist,
  Sybase Inc

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JOLT

• Recognizing the emergence of Mobile Development
  Tools in todays wireless business environment,
  CMP Media's

• Software Development magazine has awarded a
  14th Annual Productivity Award to Sybase Pocket
  PowerBuilder software. Sybase Pocket
  PowerBuilder was recognized as one of the best
  products or technologies in the award's Mobile
  Development Tools.
• The awards were announced March 17 at the Santa
  Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
  California.

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IDE

• IDE support for Source Code Control
• Deploy to PPC-2003 emulator (if installed)
• DataWindow Syntax tool
• Auto-run when deployed
• Automatically adding shortcuts

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IDE

• Default window size of Landscape

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Language

• Control the display of the SIP through simple
  properties rather than code
• Property for the tap-and-hold visual cue

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Picture Controls

• Adds support for JPEG and PNG images in standard
  picture controls,
• This includes the picture buttons in TreeView and
  ListView controls

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Mail

• You can send mail from a PPB application through
  a Microsoft ActiveSync connection that is
  configured to synchronize mail files with a
  desktop mail client.
• Microsoft Outlook can be configured to work with
  ActiveSync.
• ActiveSync supports synchronization with Outlook
  but not with Outlook Express.
• Can send mail directly to Exchange-Server

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Mail

• Instantiate a mailSession object and call the
  PowerScript mail functions mailLogon, mailSend,
  and mailLogoff
• mail Message and mailRecipient system structure
  objects hold content and destination information
  for the messages
• mailFileDescription object can be used to
  describe mail attachments, although mailAttach!
  is the only supported value for an attachment's
  file type.
• Currently cannot use PowerScript mail functions
  to retrieve mail in a Pocket PowerBuilder
  application

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Messages for PPC specific events

• PBM_HIBERNATE sent to all windows when trying
  to scavage memory
• PBM_NETCONNECT network event (like
  connect/disconnect)
• PBM_SIPUP and PBM_SIPDOWN

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New Examples

• Checking for IP connection
• // WinSock functions
• gethostbyname
• gethostbyaddr
• gethostname
• inet_ntoa
• ML Maint
• TodayItems
• etc

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Database

• Includes the new ASA 9.0
• Build 1271 includes Server Initiated Sync
  message post to a PPB app. This is an EBF to ASA
  9.0.0

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Database

• Includes the new ASA 9.0
• Build 1271 includes SIS message post to a PPB
  app

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Database

• Enhancements to MobiLink features

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PK VM

• Smaller than V1.0
• Leaner meaner !
• pkvm15u.dll has a footprint of 3.8MB !

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Icons

• All Applications now have icons
• Assigned in Application painter
• 32x32 256 PPC Desktop
• 16x16 256 - PPC App Task Man

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Rich Ink/Signature control

• Rich Ink/Signature control

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Notification Bubble

• Notification Bubble
• BTW Share price now 21 ?

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Biometric Barcode

• HP 5400 5500 Series Biometric Fingerprint
  Scanner
• Symbol Barcode Scanner

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BT GPS Camera

• Bluetooth Global Positioning System
• HP Camera Integration

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Toolbars

• Toolbar is a separate object
• In PB toolbar is a MDI Menu property
• In PPB Toolbar has a separate object painter
• Can be at top or bottom

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POOM

• Pocket Outlook Object Model
• POOM is the key to the Pocket Outlook object
  managers repository
• This repository is the object store for the
  Pocket PC contact manager, appointment manager
  task manager.

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POOM

• So with the POOM object Pocket PowerBuilder we
  can now enquire, access, create, update delete
  contacts, appointments and tasks
• Programmatically from within Pocket PowerBuilder
  applications in a very 4GL way.

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Today Item

• In PPB, the custom Today item and its parameters
  are part of the Application object, and you can
  use the Application painter to set Today item
  properties.
• The Today Item means several things from being a
  way of displaying data from a Pocket PowerBuilder
  Application onto the Display screen, to being a
  glorified shortcut to a Pocket PowerBuilder
  application, as well and even a combination of
  the two.

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Today Item

• Two types of applications are needed for Today
  Items, they are the Display Application the Run
  Application.
• If you have both a Display Application and a Run
  Application,each will have its own instance of
  the PPB VM Data Segment loaded
• No communication can take place.

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Printing

• DataWindow print events and most print properties
  are supported in applications deployed to a PPC
  device
• Graphs that you print from a PPC device do not
  expand to fill the print paper (as they do when
  you print from the desktop).
• The size of a graph that you print from these
  platforms is not modified from its screen display
  size.

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Printing

• Third Party - http//www.fieldsoftware.com
• Print PrintOpen PrintSetFont
• PrintBitmap PrintOval PrintSetSpacing
• PrintClose PrintPage PrintText
• PrintDataWindow PrintRect PrintWidth
• PrintDefineFont PrintRoundRect PrintX
• PrintLine PrintScreen PrintY
• PrintCancel, PrintGetPrinter, PrintGetPrinters,
  PrintSent, PrintSetPrinter, PrintSetup, and
  PrintSetupPrinters are NOT supported

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Demonstrations

• Pocket Waiter
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• Allocate table to customer, take order order
  payment
• View Menu, Specials Reservations
• Uses Synchronization has PB client
• Good example of DW printing

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Demonstrations

• Insurance Assessor
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• Appointments can be sent placed in POOM
• Note Claim details Synchronize back
• Uses POOM, Notification, Camera
  Integration Synchronization
• Has PB Client

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Demonstrations

• Biometric App
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• Train 10 fingers to represent 10 presidents
• Information stored in ASA
• Random fingers matched to President
• Uses HPs Biometric API Scanner

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Conclusions

• Pocket PowerBuilder v1.5.1 RAD PPC Development
  
• Boldly going where no Pocket PC Development tool
  has gone before !

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Pocket PowerBuilder Code Examples

• Pocket PowerBuilder code examples can be found on
  the CodeXchange, http//pocketpb.codexchange.sybas
  e.com

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Questions and
Answers
Ian Thain Pocket PowerBuilder Evangelist PTOG
Evangelist Team, Sybase Inc. ian.thain_at_sybase.com
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