PB 2019 offers features to modernize an existing PB UI.
In addition, Ultimate Suite for PB offers new controls designed for the same purpose.
- How to compare their features?
- Can they work together?
UI Modernization with PB 2019
PowerBuilder proposes modernizing the look of the existing controls, then adding graphic controls recently introduced by PB 2019.
PB UI Themes: modernize existing controls
Themes modernize the appearance of PB controls.
- Style sheets control their aspects for each state: activated, hovered, pressed, etc.
- Several predefined themes are available.
- You can customize them by modifying JSON attributes and providing new images.
- They can apply to existing PB controls, to modernize them without coding.
More about UI Themes
| Documentation | Videos | |
| Introduction to UI Themes |
Introduction to UI Themes (Appeon) |
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| Use and create UI themes (Bruce Armstrong) | ||
| Advanced Tutorial | Leveraring UI Themes (Tom Mills) | |
| PB Documentation - Specifying UI Themes |
New graphic controls
- PB 2019 R2 introduces a Ribbon style menu - More about PB RibbonBar Control
- PB 2019 R3 provides a new Web Control web based on Chromium.
UI modernization with Ultimate Suite 2020
Unlike PowerBuilder, Ultimate Suite does not modify existing PB controls.
It proposes new controls to enrich and modernize existing PB UIs.
28 New PB Controls
Ultimate Suite 2020 provides 27 new controls and 12 charts.
You can combine Ultimate Suite and standard PB controls as you wish.
Several Themes available
You can choose a theme to define the aspect of Ultimate Suite controls.
These themes are aligned with PB Themes, so that all controls share the same look & feel.
In short
- You can use both PowerBuilder and Ultimate Suite together..
- Their features are complementary (see below):
| UI Modernization features | PowerBuilder 2019 |
Ultimate Suite 2020 |
|---|---|---|
|
Define the aspect of standard PB controls |
Yes |
No |
|
Define the aspect of Ultimate Suite controls |
No |
|
|
New graphic controls |
RibbonBar |
