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Profound UI version 4.6.0 is scheduled for release in early June. With this update comes a set of new features that will help you take your mobile application development to the next level. This article gives a breakdown of the upcoming goodies. Subsequent articles will show how each of them can be used to give your mobile applications that extra bit of functionality and polish.

When working with browser applications, I typically have multiple browser windows or tabs open. This is especially true when I work with the Profound UI development environment. For example, it’s not uncommon for me to have several Rich Display Files open in the Visual Designer, Genie sessions, and Preview browser tabs running all at the same time.

Profound UI 4.5 is here!

I’ve always been a huge fan of RPG & DB2 Summit. It’s definitely one of the best conferences that I attend, and I attend a lot of conferences! In fact, I’ve participated in all twelve of the previous RPG & DB2 Summit conferences. However, the thirteenth one which was held in March 2013 had a good chance of being different. You see, I am still recovering from a serious spinal cord injury that I sustained in January, that has left me a paraplegic. That means that my wife and son will have to come to take care of me, and since they aren’t RPG developers, this conference might not be much fun for them. Furthermore, my colleague David Russo would be attending this conference, as an exhibitor, for the first time. If he didn’t enjoy it, I’d surely hear about it every day at work.

We're excited to announce that Profound UI 4.5 will be released at the COMMON 2013 Annual Meeting and Exposition taking place on April 7-10 in Austin, Texas. COMMON event attendees can see a live demo of Profound UI 4.5 at Booth #317 in the exposition hall.

On February 19^th, 2013 I was discharged from Froedtert Hospital’s Spinal Cord Injury Center (SCIC) rehab unit. I decided to stay until evening on the 19^th, because this gave me the chance to do all of my therapy sessions one last time. I even had a surprise – the wheelchair guy showed up with my permanent wheelchair! I would not have to go home with a loaner.

In recent releases, Profound UI has been updated to increase the security of database-driven widgets, such as drop downs, grids, charts, and combo boxes. Along with hardened security, the updates also simplify the process of configuring these components to select or omit certain records through the introduction of SQL parameter markers.

IBM i applications running natively on a mobile device such as iPhone and Android, or through a mobile device’s browser, have the ability to interact with a phone’s native capabilities. One example of this is 'Click to Call' links. With a simple touch, your mobile device will bring up your IBM i mobile application with the number you touched ready to dial. Profound UI now offers the ability to add these types of links in your applications.

Profound UI is a great tool for creating a web interface for RPG programs. The biggest use so far has been to create or convert web interfaces for standard desktop PCs, but there is a great deal of interest in developing interfaces specifically for mobile devices.

When working with companies who are in the process of modernizing their IBM i applications, one of the most common questions we hear is, "Which development and modernization tools are right for our projects?"