Providing MicroHelp – PB Docs 80
Providing MicroHelp MDI provides a MicroHelp facility that you can use to display information to the user in the status area at the bottom of the frame. For example, when the user selects a menu item, the MicroHelp facility displays a description of the selected item in the status area. You can define MicroHelp for…
Managing information in initialization files – PB Docs 80
Managing information in initialization files Functions for accessing initialization files PowerBuilder provides several functions you can use to manage application settings in initialization files: Function Description ProfileInt Obtains the integer value of a setting in a profile file. ProfileString Obtains the string value of a setting in a profile file. SetProfileString Writes a value in…
Customizing the Tab control – PB Docs 80
Customizing the Tab control The Tab control has settings for controlling the position and appearance of the tabs. Each tab can have its own label, picture, and background color. All tabs share the same font settings, which you set on the Tab control’s Font property page. Popup menus and property sheets for Tab controls and…
Rich text and the user – PB Docs 80
Rich text and the user All the editing tools described throughout this chapter and in the chapter on working with rich text in the PowerBuilder User’s Guide can be made available to your users. What users can do They can: Use the toolbars for text formatting Use the popup menu, which includes using the clipboard…
OLE controls in a window – PB Docs 80
OLE controls in a window You can add OLE objects and ActiveX controls to a window or user object. To do so, you use one of the PowerBuilder OLE controls, which acts as an OLE container. This section explains how you select the control you want by choosing whether it holds an OLE object (also…
Creating Help files – PB Docs 80
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…
Printing basics – PB Docs 80
Printing basics All printing is defined in terms of the print area. The print area is the physical page size less any margins. For example, if the page size is 8.5 inches by 11 inches, and the top, bottom, and side margins are all half-inch, the print area is 7.5 inches by 10 inches. Measurements…
Defining the component interface – PB Docs 80
Defining the component interface How the interface is specified EAServer stores all component interfaces in CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) modules. IDL is defined by the Object Management Group as a standard language for defining component interfaces. When you deploy a PowerBuilder custom class user object as an EAServer component, the methods (functions and events)…
SSL connections in PowerBuilder – PB Docs 80
SSL connections in PowerBuilder PowerBuilder provides two system objects for use with secure connections: SSLServiceProvider service object The SSLServiceProvider object is an implementation of the EAServer CtsSecurity::SSLServiceProvider interface. For more information about this interface, you can view the EAServer interface repository documentation in a Web browser by connecting to your server at http://hostname:portnumber/ir. You use…
Working with shared and service components – PB Docs 80
Working with shared and service components When you create an EAServer component in PowerBuilder, the wizard offers you a choice of creating a standard, shared, or service component. About shared components How EAServer manages program variable space The EAServer architecture is component-oriented. Each component maintains its own state. When a single client instantiates several PowerBuilder…