Building components and proxies – PB Docs 80
Building components and proxies About the Project painter workspace The Project painter workspace for executable applications is shown in “Defining an executable application project”. It has textboxes and radio buttons you use to specify the characteristics of your executable file and dynamic libraries. The workspace for all other types of project object is different. It…
Distributing resources – PB Docs 80
Distributing resources You can choose to distribute your resources (pictures, pointers, and icons) separately or include them in your executable file or dynamic library. Distributing resources separately If a resource has not been included in the executable file or in a dynamic library, when a resource is referenced at execution time PowerBuilder looks in the…
Inserting controls in a window – PB Docs 80
Inserting controls in a window You insert controls in a window in the Window painter. To insert a control in a window: Select Insert>Control from the menu bar. or Display the Controls dropdown toolbar on the PainterBar. Select the control you want to insert. If you select a user object control, the Select Object dialog…
Creating reports on library contents – PB Docs 80
Creating reports on library contents You can generate three types of reports from the Library painter: The search results report Library entry reports The library directory report The search results report contains the matching-entries information that PowerBuilder displays after it completes a search, described in “Searching targets, libraries, and objects”. The other two types of…
Using structures – PB Docs 80
Using structures After you define the structure, you can: Reference an instance of the structure in scripts and functions Pass the structure to functions Display and paste information about structures by using the Browser Referencing structures When you define a structure, you are defining a new data type. You can use this new data type…
Chapter 8 Working with User Events – PB Docs 80
Chapter 8 Working with User Events About this chapter This chapter introduces user events, describes how to define them, and discusses using them in an application. Contents Topic About user events Defining user events Using a user event Document get from Powerbuilder help Thank you for watching.
About controlling updates – PB Docs 80
About controlling updates When PowerBuilder generates the basic DataWindow object, it defines whether the data is updatable by default as follows: If the DataWindow object contains columns from a single table and includes that table’s key columns, PowerBuilder defines all columns as updatable and specifies a nonzero tab order for each column, allowing users to…
Filtering rows – PB Docs 80
Filtering rows You can use WHERE and HAVING clauses and retrieval arguments in the SQL SELECT statement for the DataWindow object to limit the data that is retrieved from the database. This reduces retrieval time and space requirements during execution. However, you may want to further limit the data that displays in the DataWindow object….
About highlighting information – PB Docs 80
About highlighting information About properties Every control in your DataWindow object has a set of properties that determines what the control looks like and where it is located. For example, the values in a column of data display in a particular font and color, in a particular location, with or without a border, and so…
Chapter 26 Working with Rich Text – PB Docs 80
Chapter 26 Working with Rich Text About this chapter This chapter explains how to create DataWindow objects using the RichText presentation style and how to use the RichTextEdit control. Contents Topic About rich text Using the RichText presentation style Using the RichTextEdit control Formatting keys and toolbars Document get from Powerbuilder help Thank you for…