Oleg Podgoretsky

In this article I'll share my experiences of working with the PFC DropDown Calendar and show you how to make this custom user object user-friendly. If you've tried to use this custom visual object, you may have discovered that the PFC Calendar won't populate a calendar if you use a datetime type instead of a date type column. When I first tried to use the PFC DropDown Calendar with PowerBuilder 6.5, instead of the OLE calendar commonly used with PowerBuilder 5.0, I found I couldn't achieve its desired or declared functionality. Each time I accessed the date column with the datetime format column in it, the DropDown Calendar appeared blank instead of showing me a current date. And when I clicked the arrow on the Calendar, the date January 1, 1990, was implemented. This means that the PFC Calendar doesn't recognize the datetime column and therefore assumes it's incor... (more)

Using the PFC Calendar with a Datetime Column

In this article I'll share my experiences of working with the PFC DropDown Calendar and show you how to make this custom user object user-friendly. If you've tried to use this custom visual object, you may have discovered that the PFC Calendar won't populate a calendar if you use a datetime type instead of a date type column. When I first tried to use the PFC DropDown Calendar with PowerBuilder 6.5, instead of the OLE calendar commonly used with PowerBuilder 5.0, I found I couldn't achieve its desired or declared functionality. Each time I accessed the date column with the datet... (more)