Powerbuilder Documentation 2019

Use branches – PB Docs 2019

Use branches You can create a branch after the workspace is added to the Git source control. To create a branch, Right-click the workspace and select Git Create Branch from the pop-up menu. In the Create Branch dialog, input the branch name you want to create, select whether to base the new branch on HEAD…

UnicharBind – PB Docs 2019

UnicharBind database parameter Description Specifies whether PowerBuilder binds string input parameters to the Char or Unichar datatype. Applies to ASE and SYC SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Syntax

Parameter Description value Specifies whether PowerBuilder binds string input parameters to the Char or Unichar datatype. Values are: 0 Binds string input parameters as Char datatypes. 1…

UrlEncode – PB Docs 2019

UrlEncode PowerScript function Description Encodes a blob value using URL encoder. Applies to CoderObject object Syntax

Argument Description coder The name of the CoderObject object. variable A blob whose value is the data you want to encode with URL encoder. When using the system blob function to convert a string to a blob, it…

Using SQL Select – PB Docs 2019

Using SQL Select Contents Selecting tables and views Selecting columns Displaying the underlying SQL statement Joining tables Using retrieval arguments Specifying selection, sorting, and grouping criteria In specifying data for a DataWindow object, you have more options for specifying complex SQL statements when you use SQL Select as the data source. When you choose SQL…

Using the DirectConnect interface – PB Docs 2019

Using the DirectConnect interface Contents Connecting through the DirectConnect middleware product Connecting through the Open ServerConnect middleware product Selecting the type of connection The DirectConnect interface uses SAP’s Open Client CT-Library (CT-Lib) API to access a database through SAP middleware data access products such as the DirectConnect for OS/390 component of Mainframe Connect and Open…

DropDownListBox – PB Docs 2019

DropDownListBox DropDownListBoxes combine the features of a SingleLineEdit and a ListBox. There are two types of DropDownListBoxes: Noneditable Editable Noneditable boxes If you want your user to choose only from a fixed set of choices, make the DropDownListBox noneditable. In these boxes, the only valid values are those in the list. There are several ways…

How to include the objects that were not found – PB Docs 2019

How to include the objects that were not found If you did not use any of the types of references described in the preceding sections, you do not need to do anything else to ensure that all objects get distributed: they are all built into the executable file. Otherwise, you have the following choices for…

Coding the function – PB Docs 2019

Coding the function When you have finished defining the function prototype, you specify the code for the function just as you specify the script for an event in the Script view. For information about using the Script view, see Writing Scripts. What functions can contain User-defined functions can include PowerScript statements, embedded SQL statements, and…

Creating a target – PB Docs 2019

Creating a target When you create a target, you are prompted for the name and location of a Target (.pbt) file and one or more other objects. Target files are text files that contain information about the target. To create a new target: Do one of the following: Click the New button in the PowerBar….

Using PowerBuilder resource files – PB Docs 2019

Using PowerBuilder resource files Instead of distributing resources separately, you can create a PowerBuilder resource file (a PBR file) that lists all dynamically assigned resources. A PBR file is an ASCII text file in which you list resource names (such as BMP, CUR, GIF, ICO, JPEG, RLE, WMF, and PNG files) and DataWindow objects. To…