Using Transaction objects to call stored procedures – PB Docs 115
Using Transaction objects to call stored procedures SQLCA is a built-in global variable of type transaction that is used in all PowerBuilder applications. In your application, you can define a specialized version of SQLCA that performs certain processing or calculations on your data. If your database supports stored procedures, you might already have defined remote…
Supported DBMS features when calling stored procedures – PB Docs 115
Supported DBMS features when calling stored procedures When you define and use a custom Transaction object to call remote stored procedures in your application, the features supported depend on the DBMS to which your application connects. The following sections describe the supported features for some of the DBMSs that you can access in PowerBuilder. Read…
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…
Providing online Help for developers – PB Docs 115
Providing online Help for developers Two ways to provide Help There are two ways to integrate online Help for your user-defined functions, user events, and user objects into the PowerBuilder development environment: The User button In the PowerBuilder main Help window, the User button is hard-coded to launch a file named PBUSR115.HLP: Context-sensitive Help For…
Providing online Help for users – PB Docs 115
Providing online Help for users Two ways to call Help from an application PowerBuilder provides two principal ways of calling an online Help file from a PowerBuilder application: Use the ShowHelp and ShowPopupHelp PowerScript functions in your application scripts to call Help topics. Declare the WinHelp API as an external function and use the WinHelp…
Chapter 12 Using Transaction Objects – PB Docs 115
Chapter 12 Using Transaction Objects About this chapter This chapter describes Transaction objects and how to use them in PowerBuilder applications. Contents Topic About Transaction objects Working with Transaction objects Using Transaction objects to call stored procedures Supported DBMS features when calling stored procedures Document get from Powerbuilder help Thank you for watching.
About Transaction objects – PB Docs 115
About Transaction objects In a PowerBuilder database connection, a Transaction object is a special nonvisual object that functions as the communications area between a PowerBuilder application and the database. The Transaction object specifies the parameters that PowerBuilder uses to connect to a database. You must establish the Transaction object before you can access the database…
Using the Code Examples application – PB Docs 115
Using the Code Examples application You run the Code Examples application from the development environment. To run the Code Examples application: Select File>New from the menu bar, select Workspace from the Workspace tab, and click OK. Navigate to the PowerBuilder 11.5Code ExamplesExample App folder, type a name for the workspace, and click Save. Select Add…
Rich text and the end user – PB Docs 115
Rich text and the end user All the editing tools described throughout this chapter and in the chapter on working with rich text in the PowerBuilder Users Guide can be made available to your users. What users can do Users can: Use the toolbars for text formatting Use the pop-up menu, which includes using the…