Author:
 Tracogna Roberto

PBWLib are a set of PowerBuilder librarys based on interoperation between PB and .NET COM objects. The objects are COM Callable Wrappers (CCW) for PB ORCA, TWAIN interface ecc. PBWLib is a bridge between this COM objects and PowerBuilder the result are a set of PowerBuilder Visual Objects that extends PB functionalities.

State of art

Now is in beta version
Supports PowerBuilder version 7/8/9/10
Need .Net Framework 1.1 or 2.0 
It is written in PowerBuilder and C#

Objects

pbwimage: implements functions for image manipulation, image conversion, and image rendering. Needs only .Net framework ( GDI+) 
pbwftp: implements simple ftp client
pbworca: wraps pborca functions. (Sybase API for PowerBuilder library manipulation). PowerBuilder orca dll must be avaiable in windows directory or in the application directory (pboraca70.dll, pboraca80.dll, pboraca90.dll, pborca10.dll)
pbwxslt: trasforms XML file to HTML. Adds to Microsoft Web Browser Control some editor featurs.
pbwword: wrapper for Microsoft Word.
You can create, open , save print documents, use word functionalities like spell-cheker, search and replace words and other. Take a look at PBWLib examples. ( Word 2000-Word 2003-Word XML are supported)
pbwtwain: scanner support . Is an implementation ( NOT complete) of TWAIN specification.

How to acticvate

For informations Send e-mail to info@miqui.it

- Download and lunch the installer. ( this will register some COM interfaces)
- Be sure all the requirements are avaiable on your sistem. Look below. (if you want to use word, word must be installed on your PC)
- Add the library you want to use (pbw_image.pbl , pbw_orca) to your target
-Take a look at examples and chm help

Use this Download

Requirements

pbwimage:  Needs only .Net framework ( GDI+) 
pbwtwain: Needs only .Net framework
pbworca: . PowerBuilder orca dll must be avaiable in windows directory or in the application directory (pboraca70.dll, pboraca80.dll, pboraca90.dll, pborca10.dll)
pbwxslt: Needs only .Net framework
pbwword:  Word 2000 or Word 2003 or Word XML
pbwtwain: needs TWAIN_32.DLL


Note: .Net 1.1 is required.
Feedback

Please feel free to send feedback (questions, bugs, code improvements, suggestions for additions) to info@miqui.it . I will try to respond to it as quickly as possible.