Customer Reviews

PFC Programmer's Reference Manual

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... and many functions are obsolete. If you want to learn about PFC, read the Online Books.

The "PFC Programmer's Reference Manual" is basically a hard copy of the online help that comes with PFC. If that's what you're looking for this book is good, otherwise, you can get the same information from online help.

This book also has some publishing errors - on page 83 it references Appendix M - the book has no appendix M!

This reference book restates most of the reference material available in the PFC online books. The reason for this (as stated in the book) is that back in PB 5 days, the online books were only available if the CD was in your drive. As of PB 6, the books can be installed on a hard drive. The PFC 6 features are only glanced at. The focus is on PFC 5 features. So if you're using PB 5/PFC 5, this book is great. Otherwise, it's not useful at all. I returned this book.

The book is a big dissapointment. It's a just a list of functions and a little description of them. Nothing you can't get from the help.

It's odd that reviews are either 1 star or 5 stars. Makes me think if the 5 star reviews are coming from the author's friends or himself. 5 star reviews are lengthy.. very suspecious.

Mr. Brooks' book simply doesn't add anything substantial to the online help included with PowerBuilder. The book mainly consists of each user object's events and functions and their arguments--exactly what the online help does.

There is a clear need in the PowerBuilder PFC programming community for a good full-featured manual.

I found that this book was not very helpful and got more out of the CD from Power Builder. As developers, we don't need more repeating documentation. We need first hand experience.

Mr. Brooks is possibly the worst author I have ever read. The help files really were more helpful than this book was. He ought to go move to the Hedonism resort he reviewed a book on because the programing world could not possibly miss him if his wok is on the level of his writing.

This book gives you what the PFC documentation does not. A detailed explanation of various internal workings that once followed, leads you to discover the things that make a library like the PFC work. Missing more overview and architectural discussion, but that is covered by the PFC Professional Reference. Together the 2 books provide what PFC developers need. A complete look at the PFC library.

A must-buy for serious PFC developers. Despite being an author of a competitive book, although I call it more complimentary than competitive, I would receommend this book to anyone.

Good job Rik.

This is the worst book I have ever read. I put my nose through the thick book and learn nothing. Later I read a thin book from Powersoft PFC training. I learn a lot from each page of it.

The author of this book does not know how to write book.

This book is not enough for me. I found that the Professional Reference by Team Powersoft gave me the skills that I need, but left out the exhaustive reference that this book provides. I use them both and think that both of them do a wonderful job at what they do. Maybe I'm just easy to please :-)