We make customized electronic medical record formats for physicians. We've
been using multi-select list boxes to enter various choices together as part
of a single column in many DataWindows in our applications. They help enter
some interrelated data faster without creating an independent table and/or
nested report.
A review of the need, outcome, and sample code are provided with a plea that
a DataWindow edit control for multi-select list boxes should be available in
PowerBuilder itself. It would further enhance the wide variety of entry
choices for developers.
A multi-select list offers the luxury of multiple options in one object.
However, the same is not available in DataWindows. Storing a multitude of
options as a single column's data has always been a challenge. T... (more)
Most new users of PowerBuilder start with SQL Anywhere as the back-end
database engine (formerly Adaptive Server Anywhere or ASA, and before that
Watcom). With growth, a need to shift and adapt to a wider database platform
is thrust on developers by customers. A recent exercise in this regard,
besides re-emphasizing our past amateurishness, has also helped us make a
clean, lean applicati... (more)
Software that is not used is useless.
Facing the challenge that doctors prefer to spend time with their patients
rather than facing the monitor, we have fine-tuned methods in our
DataWindow-based forms so that user entry is quick, painless, and a pleasure.
These include the use of dropdown lists and DataWindows for efficient,
correct and faster entries, in addition to accurately filling i... (more)