Creating Help files – PB Docs 115
Creating Help files About Help authoring tools There are many authoring tools and related products available for creating online Help files on Windows. All of the authoring tools for RTF-based Help files use the Microsoft Help compiler to compile a set of source files into a finished Help file. What to include The source files…
Opening the sample applications – PB Docs 115
Opening the sample applications To open a sample application, select Programs>Sybase>PowerBuilder 11.5>Code Samples from the Start menu, then select the sample application that you want to open. For the Web DataWindow sample, there is no workspace or target file, and there is no link from the Start menu. However, you can still add it to…
Synchronization techniques – PB Docs 115
Synchronization techniques This section highlights some issues that you need to consider when designing an application that uses MobiLink synchronization. Limiting data downloads One of the major goals of synchronization is to increase the speed and efficiency of data movement by restricting the amount of data moved. To limit the data transferred by the download_cursor…
Modifying an existing style – PB Docs 115
Modifying an existing style The easiest way to get started building form styles is to copy an existing form style and work with it. By examining its structure and making small changes, you can quickly understand how form styles work. To begin by modifying an existing form style: Open the Library painter in PowerBuilder. Copy…
Using PBDOM – PB Docs 115
Using PBDOM This section describes how to accomplish basic tasks using PBDOM classes and methods. To check for complete code samples that you can download and test, select Programs>Sybase>PowerBuilder 11.5>PB 11.5 Code Samples from the Windows Start menu. Validating the XML Before you try to build a document from a file or string, you can…
Managing information in the Windows registry – PB Docs 115
Managing information in the Windows registry Functions for accessing the Registry PowerBuilder provides several functions you can use to manage application settings in the Windows registry. Table 34-2: PowerBuilder registry setting functions Function Description RegistryDelete Deletes a key or a value in a key in the Windows registry. RegistryGet Gets a value from the Windows…
About Tab controls – PB Docs 115
About Tab controls A Tab control is a container for tab pages that display other controls. One page at a time fills the display area of the Tab control. Each page has a tab like an index card divider. The user can click the tab to switch among the pages: The Tab control allows you…
PowerBuilder components on EAServer – PB Docs 115
PowerBuilder components on EAServer To run PowerBuilder components in EAServer, the runtime libraries for the version and build number of PowerBuilder in which the components were developed must be available on the server. When you install a maintenance release of PowerBuilder and deploy new or updated components to EAServer, make sure that the PowerBuilder VM…
Connecting to EAServer – PB Docs 115
Connecting to EAServer Using the Connection object The simplest way to connect to EAServer is to use the capabilities of the Connection object, a nonvisual object that handles communications with the server. You can write all the code to connect to the server by hand, or you can use the Connection Object wizard to get…
Using the JaguarORB object – PB Docs 115
Using the JaguarORB object To create a CORBA-compatible client, you can use the JaguarORB object instead of the Connection object to establish the connection to the server. The JaguarORB object allows you to access EAServer from PowerBuilder clients in the same way as C++ clients. Two techniques The JaguarORB object supports two techniques for accessing…