Ultimate Suite for PowerBuilder
Give a Modern Look to your PowerBuilder application
Ultimate Suite for PB - Version History
Ultimate Suite for PB 2021 (February 2021)
New Themes
32 fresh styles added to the USPB inventory to upgrade the look of your PowerBuilder application.
Product/Feature Tour
Setup a tour of your application (the visible parts) or call out a single new feature.
You can use a variety of predefined colors for each callout allowing you to customize the look for the action.

PowerSnip
Capture screenshots of your PB application to review it with other teammates.

Profile Picture
Display profile pictures in different frame colors, thickness, and shapes.

Circle Progress
Visually display a percentage of completion.

Rating Stars
Represent a value from 0 to any upper value

Cards
Elegant combination of image and text

PowerMenu Pro
- Place quick access icons in the caption bar.
- Blend the caption bar into the ribbon tab.
- Allow for an Office 365 style.
- Provide built in Backstage menu.
- Provide 41 themes.

Image Editor
Open and paste images from the clipboard. Edit your images using Rotate, Crop, Flip, Apply Filter Effects such as Black & White, Brightness, Contrast, Grey Scale, Inverted Colors, and Sepia Tone. Zoom and Pan to review your images closely.

Image Comparer
Compare two images in a minimum amount of screen space

Improvements
- PowerMenu Pro: Adjust styling of Ribbon tab area so it blends in with caption.
- PowerModal: Add some logic to better handle Response type windows.
Fix
- Fixed some stability issues with Circle Progress, Image Comparer, PowerCard, and Profile Picture
- Toolbar: Issues with chevron and AutoSize property.
- DragFileSelector: Incorrect file name returned if AllowMultipleFiles is TRUE and the user used the Browse button to select just 1 file.
- SPA Windows: Prevent resizing if PowerMessage or PowerModal is open.
- PowerMenu Pro: Prevent resizing of window if PowerMessage or PowerModal is open.
Ultimate Suite for PB 2020 R3 (July 2020)
PowerGauge
- This new control allows you to implement modern and animated gauges in your PowerBuilder Dashboards and Reports

- You can easily configure your Gauges with the Ultimate Suite Designer.
Ultimate Suite for PB 2020 R2 (May 2020)
New features
- New base source code objects for easy integration into customers' applications.
- Enhanced support for complex frameworks (e.g. PFC).
- Set default control theme globally.
- SPA Caption-less Window - New window object.

- RTL support for PowerMenu Pro and SPA Basic.
- 64 bit support for Single Page Application windows.
Fixed issues
- PowerTile - button click was being triggered if control resized under mouse pointer as the mouse lbutton was being let go.
- PowerDock - Issue with document tab selection when docking and undocking a panel on MDI window.
- ShortcutBar - Error when clicking chevron in some cases.
- Toolbar - Error when clicking chevron in some cases.
Ultimate Suite for PB 2020 (February 2020)
PowerMenu
- Updated the overall style to add more spacing and bigger fonts (to match the MS ribbon better).
- Include loading circle in the status bar.
PowerMenu Pro
- A new window based off of PowerMenu.
- Includes a custom caption bar at the top
- Quick access toolbar is located in the caption bar.

Tabbed Caption Window
- A new window that gives you a tab control in the windows caption bar.
- Modeled after most modern web browsers.
- Contains most of the features you would find in our Tab Control.

Single Page Application w/ Navigation
- New window that makes it easy to develop single page applications.
- Window displays user objects with built in navigation. A simple implementation would require only a few function calls.
- Custom windows caption bar.
- Caption bar allows the developer to add buttons to give their users more functionality.
Single Page Application Basic
- New window that gives you the most basic form of a single page application
- Custom windows caption bar.
- Caption bar allows the developer to add buttons to give their users more functionality.
- PowerBuilder Menu object is not supported.
Loading Circles
- The loading circle continuously rotates indicating that a process is waiting to complete.
- This control can be placed anywhere on screen.
- Loading circle has been implemented in PowerDock, Tab Control, and PowerMenu (displays in the PowerDock and Tab Control tabs or the PowerMenu status bar).

Drag and Drop files
- New component that can be added to any window or user object which allows users to drag files into the application.
Various bug fixes
PB Ultimate Suite 2019 R3 (October 2019)
- New Features
- Preview displayed automatically when adding a PowerChart to a window in the window painter (now using graphical pb objects instead of png files that had to be placed before in the painter directory).
- Same automatic preview when opening a PowerChart in the datawindow painter
- You can now format data, labels and popup labels in PowerChart, to display data as $ 9,999 or 99% or whatever format your JavaScript skills let you imagine (select PowerCharts Advanced Configuration Parameters to do so).
- New "javascript_preview" event added to PowerCharts datawindow controls, to let users get the JavaScript code generated. This code can be customized to create workarounds or try new features without deploying a new release.
- Chart painter application now available for PB2019
- Bug Fix
- PowerCharts: Generation bugs on axis manipulation (could not remove an axis).
- PowerCharts: 64-bit compatibility issues for PB2017 and above.
- PowerCharts: Coma decimal separator issue for PB2017 and above.
- Command Button: Minor bug fixes
- PowerToast: Minor bug fixes
PB Ultimate Suite 2019 R2
- PowerChart:
- PB 2019 version of the Chart Painter
PB Ultimate Suite 2019 R1 (June 2019)
- New Controls
- PowerCharts: This new control allows you to implement Modern and animated Charts in your PowerBuilder Application
- PowerCharts also includes a dedicated chart painter to configure and customize your charts
- PB 2019 Support
- New PB 2019 Themes
- Bug Fix
- Command Button: Minor bug fixes
PB Ultimate Suite 2019 (March 2019)
- PBUS Free Edition
- All Themes are now included in PBUS Free Edition
- New Control
- FolderExplorer: This new control allows you to browse files and folder from your PowerBuilder application
- Improvements
- Group Box: New of_Rounded function allows you to have rounded or square group boxes.
- PowerCalc: Add better theme support
- PowerTiles: Support two lines
- Documentation: Enhanced documentation for PowerMenu
- Bug Fix
- PowerMessage: Fixed message title so text doesn't get cut off.
- PowerMessage: If you display a message when the window is minimized, and after closing the application from the Windows task bar, the message won't display.
- Button Listbar: Images don't display if you add a list bar item in the controls constructor event.
- PowerDock: Fixed resize issues.
- PowerDock: Sheet menu's didn't work properly on MDI screens when a window is floating.
- Toolbar: Fixed visual issue with drop down toolbar items that has long text
- General: Other misc bug fixes
PB Ultimate Suite 9.2 (July 2018)
- PBUS Free Edition
- Windows 10 Message - Now part of the Free Edition package.
- Improvements
- Toggle Buttons - Make rounded version look nice
- Command Button - Added CornerRadius property to allow for rounded buttons
- Docking System - Window disappears if you cancel the close using closequery event.
- Bug Fix
- Docking System - Fixed performance issue when resizing.
- Docking System - Fixed issue with floating window resizing when a panel is resized.
- Docking System - With MDI, sheet menu's don't switch properly when document tabs are selected.
- Button Listbar - Fixed coloring on Windows themes and Gradient List style.
- Toast Notifications - Toast position on 64 bit wasn't working properly.
- Windows 10 Message - High CPU usage when left open for a long time.
PB Ultimate Suite 9.1 (May 2018)
- New
- PBUS Free Edition
This version offers a selection of free controls, color themes and icon libraries that you can use with any PowerBuilder applications and deploy as you like.
- Bug Fix
PB Ultimate Suite 9.0 (February 2018)
- New
- PowerMessage - New control to display messages on screen; messagebox replacement.
- CommandButton - Create new command button control based on the native PowerBuilder command button
- 64 bit support
- Enhancements
- ToggleButton - Updated the rounded button style so it looks better.
- GroupBox - Modify to inherit from the native PowerBuilder groupbox.
- Static Text - Modify to inherit from the native PowerBuilder static text so you have IDE support.
- PowerDock - Add new of_OpenDocument overloads so you can pass string and numbers as parameters.
- Tab Control - Add new of_OpenTab overloads so you can pass string and numbers as parameters.
- DWNav - Add validation to methods to prevent errors in some cases.
- Bug Fixes
- PowerDock - Issues displaying sheet toolbar and menu when closing windows when frame window is MDI.
PB Ultimate Suite 8.1 (July 2017)
- Enhancements:
PowerMenu - Display MicroHelp text from
menu's in PowerMenu status bar.
PowerTiles - Return index of tile when calling
of_AddTile in u_cst_tile. Pass the same index value to TileClicked event.
PowerMenu - Ribbon scroll changed to be more intuitive.
PowerMenu - Add right
to left support
Better RTL support. Controls that support RTL will detect
the RightToLeft setting on their parent window and use that to automatically
set RTL on the control.
XPListBar - Add fill height option for groups. Used
to allow a group to fill the height of the control.
XPListBar - Add no padding
option when adding objects.
PowerDock - Add new DocumentTabClicked event.
Triggered only when a user physically clicks a document tab.
Tab Control
- Add new TabClicked event. Triggered only when a user physically clicks a tab.
Support for PowerBuilder 2017.
- Bug Fixes:
PowerMenu
- Issue with ribbon status bar panels displaying off screen if set after the
window opens.
PowerMenu - Visual artifacts on status bar removed when setting
status bar panel text.
PowerMenu - Fix ALT shortcut key.
PowerMenu - Fix
issue with resize not working right when collapsing and expanding the ribbon.
PowerDock - DocumentSelectionChanged and DocumentSelectionChanging events were
being triggered too many times unnecessarily.
Tab Control - SelectionChanged
and SelectionChanging events were being triggered too many times unnecessarily.
PB Ultimate Suite 8.0 (January 2017)
- Added five new controls
- Added new "LIST" style to XPListBar
- General bug fixes
PB Ultimate Suite 7.1 (July 2016)
- Tab Control - Close tab on lbuttonup event if mouse is over the "X"
- PowerTiles - Fixed issue with tiles showing outside the main PowerTile
control when first opening and closing.
- PowerTiles - Tile text now has alignment options.
- PowerMenu - Add new status bar to ribbon window.
- PowerMenu - Add new Changemenu overload. New parameter added to prevent
redrawing.
- PowerMenu - Changed ribbon window RibbonTabClicked event to only fire
when a ribbon tab is actually clicked.
- QueryBuilder - Fixed issue with of_OpenFile not being able to load a
file.
- PowerDock - Add new method of_setmindocksize. Used to set minimum size
of dock panel.
- Enhance Windows 8 Black theme.
- Removed dependency on PBNI Canvas.
PB Ultimate Suite 7.0.0 (February 2016)
- 64 bit support for PB12.6
- Known issue: Problem with toolbar tooltip
- New PowerTile control: a Windows tiles
control that can be used for better navigation within your application
- Theme enhancements for the tab control.
You can now control how disabled tabs look.
- New ButtonListbar style - GRADIENTLIST
- New property to w_ribbonwindow to disable ALT hot key - DisableAltHotKey.
Also added of_DisableAltHotKey()
- Overload methods for the Float Window methods in PowerDock so the developer
can specify a default size
- New Windows 8 Black Theme
- Fixed bug with ALT Hot Key shortcuts not hiding when pressing ALT again.
Proper support for Windows 7 and up. Partial support for Windows Vista.
- Fixed issue with Black theme
- Fixed bug with Alt Hot Key shortcuts in the PowerMenu quickaccess menu
PB Ultimate Suite 6.2.0 (September 2015)
- Keyboard enable PowerMenu with ALT key
- Add new RibbonTabClicked event to PowerMenu
- Trigger clicked event on group menu item in PowerMenu
- Select the last ribbon tab selected when pinning PowerMenu after it
was collapsed.
- Set a default theme for PowerMenu
- Add new RibbonDocked and RibbonUndocked events to PowerMenu
- Add overloaded methods for the Float Window methods in PowerDock so
the developer can specify a default size.
- Allow a unique ID to be set for Outlook Shortcutbar items. This unique
ID will be passed to the ue_selectionchanging and ue_selectionchanged events.
- In addition to the above, PowerFilter will now be bundled with PB Ultimate Suite!
PB Ultimate Suite 6.1.0 (February 2015)
- PowerDock: VS2013 style.
- PowerDock: Changed visuals on the PowerDock docker (displayed when dragging
a dock panel).
- PowerDock: Add right to left support to powerdock.
- TabControl: VS2013 style.
- TabControl: Fixed bug with the of_SetEnabled method in the TabControl.
- ToolbarStrip: VS2013 style.
- ButtonListBar: VS2013 style.
- Querybuilder: Add new querybuilder control. Used to graphically create
SQL queries.
- XPListBar: Fixed inconsistent use of FontName and FontSize in the XPListBar
control.
PB Ultimate Suite 6.0 (August 2014)
- Windows 8 theme for all controls.
Flat design with 3 color selections
- General bug fixes and enhancements.
PB Ultimate Suite 5.4.0 (Feb 2014)
- "pure virtual function call" error causes app to crash when
you click on a toolbar chevron while another application has focus.
- Memory leak when hover over a toolbar item that has been disabled.
- Error when clicking a PowerMenu tab that was drawn slightly off screen.
- Add ability to display wallpaper on PowerDock background.
- Add function to set the background color of PowerDock (The area behind
the document tabs, visible when no document tabs are open).
- Rename any reference to st_1 in all controls to be something more unique.
- PowerDock; Add overloads to of_AddDockItem to accept an object type
as a string.
- Add right to left support to the button listbar
- Add right to left support to the groupbox
- Add right to left support to the outlook shortcutbar
PB Ultimate Suite Version 5.3.0 (August 2013)
- Add custom theme support to each control.
- Add new "black" color theme.
- Issues rendering the Outlook Shortcutbar.
- Text in the XPListbar didn't display if an image wasn't specified.
- Add DocumentClosing and DocumentClosed events to PowerDock.**
PB Ultimate Suite 5.2.0 (May 2013)