API for PowerBuilder plugins development

Chladny

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Mar 16, 2005, 5:19:04 AM3/16/05

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Hi all,

1.) Is it possible to develop PowerBuilder plugin modules?
2.) Is there any API available for this puropse?

Thank you in advance.

V. Chladny

Dmitri

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Mar 16, 2005, 6:08:25 AM3/16/05

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Chladny wrote:

> 1.) Is it possible to develop PowerBuilder plugin modules?
> 2.) Is there any API available for this puropse?

I beleive PBNI is what you're after (available since PB9).

Dmitri.

Chladny

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Mar 16, 2005, 6:14:15 AM3/16/05

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I don't think so. I look for possibility to implement the
module (like library browser, etc. ...) and then somehow add
it into development environment and then use it during
programming some projects.
Not linking different code to build some sw application.

Chladny

Chris Pollach

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Mar 16, 2005, 7:20:47 AM3/16/05

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You are correct .. PBNI is not for the IDE. I an not sure if there is one
or not. The person to ask here would be Dave Fish from Sybase. Maybe he will
respond here (Oh Dave!)?

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Mar 16, 2005, 9:10:13 AM3/16/05

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Mar 16, 2005, 9:10:23 AM3/16/05

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There is nothing currently available that can be intergrated into the IDE.
There is an API, ORCA, but that cannot not run within PB.

/ck

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Terry Voth

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Mar 16, 2005, 9:40:33 AM3/16/05

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You may be getting the idea that the answer depends on what you mean by "plugin
modules." Maybe if you could be more precise, we could provide some accurate
ideas.

Let us know,

Terry [TeamSybase] and Sequel the techno-kitten

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Andrew Giulinn

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Mar 16, 2005, 6:24:58 PM3/16/05

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One of the recent PB Futures webcasts mentioned something about this IIRC.

Yep, here it is. Dave Fish's webcast for PB10
(http://download.sybase.com/presentation/pb_techcast/sybs031604.wmv) has a
slide in the "Beyond PowerBuilder 10" section with the words: "Open
Platform: Open interface for developers to add their own plug in to PB IDE".
His words are "we are going to publish the API". When? He doesn't say.

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> Ahemmm... <mimicing Dave's voice to the best of my ability.../>
>
> The API is internal only at this point (used by the PowerDesigner
plug-in).
>
> <Back to Roy's voice/>
>
> There are other, more hack'ish ways to achieve that, although w/
> variable levels of success -- take a look at PBIntelli for example --
> not a bad start.
>
> --
> Roy [hopes that the actual API will become public one day soon]

Chladny

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Mar 17, 2005, 3:44:50 AM3/17/05

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Ok, I'll try.
Do you know the idea of Eclipse plugin modules?
You have the IDE and you can implement your own plugin
modules (e.g. for UML modeling, C++ devlopment,...). You can
execute such module directly from running IDE and use it
during particular project development in the same way like
standard modules of IDE.
This is the same. We have PB IDE. Is there any API for
plugin modules development? e.g. UML modeling,... (I know
PDesigner, but this is just an example).

Thank you.
Chladny

Terry Voth

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Mar 17, 2005, 5:26:21 AM3/17/05

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Then most of the answers you've gotten are on track. The only
"integration" at this point is linking an external executable to a
custom toolbar button. For example, I'm changing PBL Peeper to format
the contents of the clipboard (SQL, script), so I'm putting it on a
toolbar button in the IDE to make it more accessible while I'm
developing.

Good luck,

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Jerry Siegel

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Mar 17, 2005, 10:35:02 AM3/17/05

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Or maybe the plan is to build the IDE within Eclipse.
http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1034627
That would make things handier when compiling to Java and .Net comes along
in 11 or 12.

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