Working with tools

PowerBuilder provides you with a variety of tools to help you
with your development work.

Opening a tool

There are several ways to open tools.

To open a tool:

You can also open
a tool by clicking the New button in the PowerBar, and in the New
dialog box’s Tool tab page, selecting the tool you want.

These tools are available
in the PowerBar:

Tool	What you use the tool for
Library painter	Manage libraries, create a new library, and build dynamic libraries
Database profiles	Define and use named sets of parameters to connect to a particular databaseFor information, see Connecting to Your Database
Browser	View information about system objects and objects in your application, such as properties, events, functions, and global variables, and copy, export, or print the informationFor information, see “Browsing the class hierarchy”
File Editor	Edit text files such as source, resource, and initialization filesFor information, see “Using the file editor”
Debugger	Set breakpoints and watch expressions, step through your application, examine and change variables during execution, and view the call stack and objects in memoryFor information, see Chapter 25, “Debugging and Running Applications “
To-Do List	Keep track of development tasks you need to do for the current application and create links to quickly get you to the place where you need to complete the tasksFor information, see “Using the To-Do List”

The Library painter, File editor, and Debugger are also available
in the New dialog box’s Tool tab page.

The Tool tab page also has these additional tools:

Tool	What you use the tool for
DataWindow Syntax	Report on properties of DataWindow objects and the controls within DataWindow objectsFor information, see DataWindow Syntax online Help
Profiling Class View, Profiling Routine View, and Profiling Trace View	Use trace information to create a profile of your applicationFor information, see “Tracing and profiling an application”
PFC Extender	Automatically create and populate an intermediate extension level of libraries (for example, to contain all of your site’s corporate-level extensions to PFC) between two existing levels (such as the PFC ancestor level and the PFC extension level)For information, see PFC Extender online Help and the PowerBuilder Foundation Class Library User’s Guide

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Powerbuilder Documentation 7.0

August 3, 2023

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