Ken Howe's PowerBuilder Datawindow Tips

DataWindow
Title	V	Date(m/d/y)
Create DataWindow Controls behind/SendToBack	A	5/19/2006
Filter Dropdown Datawindows	A	10/13/2002
Duplicate Rows Checking	A	9/28/2002
Autosize Height, Actual Row Height	A	6/30/2002
ImportString Cache	A	8/5/2001
Autosize Height and Leading Blanks	A	4/1/2001
Dropdown Datawindow Sort	A	11/5/2000
Auto Select text in an Editmask Control	A	9/10/2000
Datawindow Buttons for Tabular Datawindows	5-	7/9/2000
Datawindow Quick Sort Indicator	A	2/20/2000
New Where Clause (PFC)	A	1/30/2000
Importing Dynamic Datawindows into the Search Path	A	1/30/2000
Check for Multiple Selected Rows	A	11/19/99
What's in a Datastore	5+	6/18/99
12 Type of Row Focus Indicator	A	3/26/99
Highlighting a Group Band	5+	12/14/98
Report Layout Tips	A	12/13/98
Making an Editable Datawindow Read Only	4+	12/12/98
Reference other Rows from the Current Row	A	12/12/98
Embedding Data	A	11/30/98
Alter/Clone Object Attributes	5,6	11/28/98
Adding a Groupbox	5-	11/28/98
Enable/Disable Row/Columns based on Data Values	4+	11/28/98
Printing Bar Codes	A	11/28/98
Update Multiple Tables from a single Datawindow	A	11/28/98
Datawindow Buttons	5-	2/7/98
Floating Date Mask	5+	11/16/97
How to write a GetItemAny Function	5+	4/12/97
Sort, Filter and Query Dialogs	A	4/9/97
Generic Drop Down Datawindow	A	4/9/97
Get the Transaction Object	A	4/1/97
Display text at any Angle	4+	4/1/97
Make Text Blink	A	4/1/97
ReRetrieve only the updated rows	A	4/1/97
Reorder Columns in a Grid Presentation Style	A	4/1/97
Find out the Presentation Style at run time	A	4/1/97
Validating Editable Drop Down Datawindow Columns	A	4/1/97
Adding Gifs and Hyperlinks to your Datawindow to HTML Conversion	5+	4/1/97
Mail Merge using RTF Presentation Style	5+	4/1/97
Retrieve with an Array of Arguments	4+	4/1/97
Drop Down Datawindow Tricks	A	4/1/97
Counting Distinct Rows in an Expression	4+	4/1/97
Field Initializers	A	4/1/97
Different Coloured Rows	A	4/1/97
Display Row Number at Top of Page	4+	4/1/97
Indicating Focus to the User	A	4/1/97
Other Forms of Row Highlighting	5+	4/1/97
Custom Help for Built-in Dialogs	4+	4/1/97
Cannot Convert Any Error	5	9/28/97
Transaction Pools	5+	9/28/97
Error and Exception Handling	5+	9/28/97
Distributed Child Datawindows	5	9/28/97
Distributed Data Transfer Speeds	5	8/23/97