Adding pbdom100.pbd to the library search path – PB Docs 100
Adding pbdom100.pbd to the library search path The PBDOM classes are implemented in a DLL file, pbdom100.pbx. To use the classes in a PowerBuilder application, you must place pbdom100.pbx in the application’s path, and add the pbdom100.pbd file to the application’s library search path. The PBD acts as a wrapper for the DLL, enabling the…
About deploying applications – PB Docs 100
About deploying applications PowerBuilder lets you develop and deploy applications for many application architectures. Traditional client/server applications The primary focus of this chapter is on building an executable file and packaging a single- or two-tier application for deployment. The chapter helps you decide whether to use compiled code or pseudocode, whether to use dynamic libraries…
About VPATs – PB Docs 100
About VPATs A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a table designed to help U.S. Federal officials make preliminary assessments of accessibility compliance for products offered to the government for sale. A VPAT lists the criteria for compliance with accessibility requirements for various types of products and provides columns where you can indicate and comment…
Web DataWindow on COM+ or IIS – PB Docs 100
Web DataWindow on COM+ or IIS You can run the Web DataWindow server component on COM+ using ASP as the page server. You can also run the Web DataWindow on a Microsoft IIS application server. Files required on the COM+ or IIS server Two types of files are required on the COM+ or IIS server:…
About preferences and default settings – PB Docs 100
About preferences and default settings Many PowerBuilder applications store user preferences and default settings across sessions. For example, many applications keep track of settings that control the appearance and behavior of the application, or store default parameters for connecting to the database. PowerBuilder applications can manage this kind of information in initialization files or in…
Providing online Help for developers – PB Docs 100
Providing online Help for developers Two ways to provide Help There are two ways to integrate online Help for your user-defined functions, user events, and user objects into the PowerBuilder development environment: The User button In the PowerBuilder main Help window, the User button is hard-coded to launch a file named PBUSR100.HLP: Context-sensitive Help For…
About window instances – PB Docs 100
About window instances When you build an application, you may want to display several windows that are identical in structure but have different data values. For example, you may have a w_employee window and want to display information for two or more employees at the same time by opening multiple copies (instances) of the w_employee…
About the PowerBuilder window ActiveX – PB Docs 100
About the PowerBuilder window ActiveX The PowerBuilder window ActiveX lets you display a PowerBuilder child window on Web pages viewed in a browser that supports ActiveX. Features The PowerBuilder window can include all the familiar controls, including DataWindows, OLE objects, OCX (ActiveX) controls, and TreeView controls. You can also open other (pop-up or response) windows…
Using lists – PB Docs 100
Using lists You can use lists to present information to the user in simple lists with scrollbars. You can present this information with text and pictures (in a PictureListBox) or with text alone (using a ListBox). Depending on how you design your application, the user can select one or more list items to perform an…
Deploying a PowerBuilder COM server – PB Docs 100
Deploying a PowerBuilder COM server Once you have generated a PowerBuilder COM server, you can use COM-enabled client applications to create the PowerBuilder COM objects and access their methods. You can use the server with any COM-enabled application or deploy it as a package to COM+. Using a PowerBuilder COM server with a COM-enabled application…