PowerBuilder Modern UI/UX
App Modernization Made Easy
PowerBuilder 2025 R2 empowers you to modernize your app’s user interface faster than ever. Using a combination of codeless features and new built-in controls, you can instantly revamp your app with a sleek, modern, and more productive UI/UX.
Codeless UI Enhancement
UI Theme
UI Theme essentially brings the concept of style sheets to PowerBuilder and controls how your application UI is rendered—no coding required. It benefits your project with modern styles and maintains UI consistency.
Includes pre-built themes to instantly modernize apps Customize by simply changing attribute values Supports inheritance, grouping, and exceptions Themes can be dynamically switched at runtime via script (optional)
Menu in RibbonView
Automatically transform traditional menus into modern ribbon menus—no coding required. It benefits your project with a navigation layout that is more flexible and favored by many users.
Enabled via a single MDI Frame property setting Automatically generates a shortcut toolbar Fully compatible with UI Themes and TabbedView Can also be toggled dynamically via script (optional)MDI in TabbedView
Display MDI windows in a tabbed view format—no coding required. It benefits your project with a more productive approach to working with multiple windows.
Enabled via the TabbedView property in the MDI Frame window Supports left-to-right and right-to-left tab order Dynamically toggle TabbedView via script (optional)
Autocomplete for Dropdowns
Automatically filter and select the correct value in dropdown DataWindows and list boxes—no coding required. It benefits your project with much faster data entry and better input accuracy.
Enable AutoComplete settings to filter and auto-fill input of dropdowns in the property painter Validates user input directly against the DDDW or DDLB data Dynamically configurable via script (optional)Display Compatibility
PowerBuilder 2025 is now compatible with various display environments, ensuring your app displays properly and performs well for all users.
High-DPI Display - Make your app DPI-aware with Per-Monitor (V2) settings, ensuring crisp and responsive UI rendering on high-resolution displays.
Multiple Monitor Support - Enhanced support for multi-monitor setups, ensuring consistent UI scaling, positioning, and behavior across various display environments.
Built-in Controls
Native PDF
Generate, customize, and secure PDF documents natively within PowerBuilder—no external PDF libraries or drivers needed. It benefits your project with the world’s most popular format for printing and advanced PDF functionality.
Native PDF generation & manipulation Print DataWindow in any presentation style to PDF Support set orientation, page size, passwords, margins, etc. Add watermarks, images, and table of contents
RibbonBar Control
A new navigation control as an alternative to traditional menus. It benefits your project with a navigation layout that is more flexible and favored by many users. Compared to the Menu in RibbonView, it offers greater flexibility and more advanced capability.
Rich set of components (tabs, groups, buttons, galleries, etc.) Includes master & recent menus, screen tips, and more Responsive layout automatically adjusts to screen size Pre-built templates speed up development Fully compatible with UI ThemesWebBrowser Control
A powerful and secure embeddable Web browser that supports PowerScript/JavaScript integration. It benefits your project with a viewer for popular file formats, integration of HTML apps with PowerBuilder apps, and opens up possibility to add new JavaScript controls.
Load HTML pages, PDFs, videos, and local files Supports HTTP/2, mutual TLS 1.3, and basic & digest authentication Supports calling JavaScript functions from PowerScript Supports triggering PowerScripts events from JavaScript Utilizes the Microsoft WebView2 engine and supports auto-updating (independent of PowerBuilder)
JavaScript Charts
Readily integrate your PowerBuilder app with expansive and interactive JavaScript charts, such as Google Charts. It benefits your project with more chart types and advanced functionality.
Supports many modern chart types such as gauges, heatmaps, candlesticks Interactive features like drill-down, segmentation, and filtering Integrates with JavaScript libraries like Google ChartsRichTextEdit Control
A full-fledged word processor that adds powerful document creation and WYSIWYG editing capabilities to your app.
Backwards compatible with SAP PowerBuilder 12.6 or older Provides native 32-bit & 64-bit controls Extensive file format support: DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML, PDF, PDF/A Enhanced layout features: tables, forms, right-to-left text New capabilities: insert Excel, redo/undo, paste special, fillable PDFs, etc.
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