Technical Support – PB Docs 2017
Technical Support All customers are entitled to standard technical support for reproducible software defects. You can open a standard support ticket at the Appeon support site: https://www.appeon.com/standardsupport/ (login required). If your organization has purchased a premium support contract for this product, then the designated authorized support contact(s) may seek assistance with your technical issue or…
Using the BuildModel function to build a call graph model – PB Docs 2017
Using the BuildModel function to build a call graph model The call graph model that you create with the BuildModel function contains all the routines in the trace file and can take a long time to build. If you want to monitor the progress of the build or you want to be able to interrupt…
Using the Preview view of a DataWindow object – PB Docs 2017
Using the Preview view of a DataWindow object Contents Retrieving data Modifying data Viewing row information Importing data into a DataWindow object Using print preview Printing data Working in a grid DataWindow object You use the Preview view of a DataWindow object to view it as it will appear with data and test the processing…
Working in the DataWindow painter – PB Docs 2017
Working in the DataWindow painter Contents Understanding the DataWindow painter Design view Using the DataWindow painter toolbars Using the Properties view in the DataWindow painter Selecting controls in the DataWindow painter Resizing bands in the DataWindow painter Design view Using zoom in the DataWindow painter Undoing changes in the DataWindow painter The DataWindow painter provides…
Defining a code table – PB Docs 2017
Defining a code table Contents How code tables are implemented How code tables are processed Validating user input To reduce storage needs, frequently you might want to store short, encoded values in the database, but these encoded values might not be meaningful to users. To make DataWindow objects easy to use, you can define code…
Creating Executables and Components – PB Docs 2017
Creating Executables and Components Contents About building PowerBuilder targets Creating a project Using the Project painter Defining an executable application project Using dynamic libraries Attaching or embedding manifest files Distributing resources Tracing execution Building an executable file and dynamic libraries Building proxies and .NET targets About this chapter This chapter describes how to create an…
HScrollBar and VScrollBar – PB Docs 2017
HScrollBar and VScrollBar You can place freestanding scroll bar controls within a window. Typically, you use these controls to do one of the following: Act as a slider control with which users can specify a continuous value Graphically display information to the user You can set the position of the scroll box by specifying the…
Using class user objects – PB Docs 2017
Using class user objects How you insert a nonvisual object There are two ways to use a class user object when the user object is not autoinstantiating: you can create an instance of it in a script, or you can insert the user object in a window or user object using the Insert menu. For…
Checking objects out from source control – PB Docs 2017
Checking objects out from source control What happens on checking out an object When you check out an object, PowerBuilder: Locks the object in the archive so that no one else can modify it — unless your source control system permits multiple user checkouts Copies the object to the directory for the target to which…
Importing source control files to a new library – PB Docs 2017
Importing source control files to a new library You can use your source control manager to check out all the old PowerBuilder objects to a named directory or folder. If you plan to use the same project to store your migrated objects, you must make sure that the manager locks the files you check out…