Author: Pete Halsted

How Telemetry can Assist you in your WinDev Applications

Andy did a great job this morning showing us how to use the new Telemetry Features of WinDev v21 within our applications. Along with all of the out of the box features, like tracking users, errors, element usage, etc., he also showed us how to setup custom measurement items and the code to update the … Continue reading How Telemetry can Assist you in your WinDev Applications →

Version 21 Top New Features

The Version 21 release is just around the corner, it looks like once again pcSoft has done a great job! This week the New Features brochure was released, so I wanted to highlight some of the new features that I think are most exciting. General WX and Windev Features #1 New Repositionable Note Control This … Continue reading Version 21 Top New Features →

SCM Bug – Directory Does not exist in SCM Database

How to work around the "Directory Does not exists in SCM Database" bug.

Embedding a HF Classic Table in Your EXE

I recently needed to embed several PDF files in our executable so we didn’t have to ship them individually with application and keep track of updating them separately. The original plan was to try to do something similar to what pcSoft does with the DLLs in the executable, where they “self-extract” with the first run. … Continue reading Embedding a HF Classic Table in Your EXE →

A Few thoughts about losing my “Uncle John” this week

I lost someone really important to me last week, and it has taken that time for me to be able to write this. By birth, John Stevenson was my Uncle, my mother's brother, but he was always so much more than that. From the beginning he was always that Big Brother, that us first born … Continue reading A Few thoughts about losing my “Uncle John” this week →

Back from wxDevCon with a few announcements

It's been a little quiet at Uncle Pete's Corner, at least as far as the Blog/Webinars are concerned. As most of you know I was busy prepping for the wxDevCon Developers Conference. We had a really great time, and my hat's off to Tim Fischbeck and the rest of the WinDev.us team, this was by … Continue reading Back from wxDevCon with a few announcements →

WebDev Date Entry Control Template

Date entry controls are ugly. Popup Calendars are cumbersome. Date entry controls are confusing when dealing with Multi-Language, where the format may be MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk about this week’s upcoming article and webinar. I adding my latest date entry to the mix of methods … Continue reading WebDev Date Entry Control Template →

Using jQuery to work around a WebDev Bug

This week I found a bug in v20 of WebDev. To be fair it is a bug that require a number of conditions to be met before it is an issue. First you Web Page has to use some form of Anchoring by Height (I almost always have mine stretch to fill the browsers), Next … Continue reading Using jQuery to work around a WebDev Bug →

Breadcrumbs 3 Ways

This weeks article and webinar is titled “Breadcrumbs 3 Ways”. No you haven’t tuned into my cooking blog, I am talking about website navigation links. In our continuing series on extending WebDev via CSS and JQuery this week we will be looking at 3 different styles of Breadcrumb links that you can use for you … Continue reading Breadcrumbs 3 Ways →

WebDev Look and Feel Tweaks #1 – Using CCS Files for Private Branding

WebDev is definitely a great environment for developing Web based business applications. But as with any environment, there is a limit to what can be achieved out of the box. This week we will review a few methods that I have used on projects to push the Look and Feel envelop of WebDev. We will … Continue reading WebDev Look and Feel Tweaks #1 – Using CCS Files for Private Branding →