Creating an executable version of your application – PB Docs 105
Creating an executable version of your application The next few sections tell you more about the packaging process and provide information to help you make choices about the resulting application. They cover: Compiler basics What can go in the package How to choose a packaging model How to implement your packaging model How to test…
PowerBuilder techniques – PB Docs 105
PowerBuilder techniques PowerBuilder provides full support for inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism in both visual and nonvisual objects. Creating reusable objects In most cases, the person developing reusable objects is not the same person using the objects in applications. This discussion describes defining and creating reusable objects. It does not address usage. Implementing inheritance PowerBuilder makes…
Chapter 16 Implementing Rich Text – PB Docs 105
Chapter 16 Implementing Rich Text About this chapter This chapter explains how to use rich text in an application, either in a RichText DataWindow object or in a RichTextEdit control. Contents Topic Using rich text in an application Using a RichText DataWindow object Using a RichTextEdit control Rich text and the end user Before you…
Using rich text in an application – PB Docs 105
Using rich text in an application Rich text format (RTF) is a standard for specifying formatting instructions and document content in a single ASCII document. An editor that supports rich text format interprets the formatting instructions and displays the text with formatting. In an application, you may want to: Provide a window for preparing rich…
Using a RichText DataWindow object – PB Docs 105
Using a RichText DataWindow object This section discusses: How scrolling differs from other DataWindow styles Problems you may encounter with default values for new rows What happens when the user makes changes Scrolling In a RichText DataWindow object, the rich text can consist of more than one page. A row of data can be associated…
Using a RichTextEdit control – PB Docs 105
Using a RichTextEdit control A RichTextEdit control in a window or user object lets the user view or edit formatted text. Functions allow you to manipulate the contents of the control by inserting text, getting the selected text, managing input fields, and setting properties for all or some of the contents. You define RichTextEdit controls…
Rich text and the end user – PB Docs 105
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 User’s 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…
Populating a graph with data – PB Docs 105
Populating a graph with data This section shows how you can populate an empty graph with data. Using AddSeries You use AddSeries to create a series. AddSeries has this syntax:
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AddSeries returns an integer that identifies the series that was created. The first series is numbered 1, the second is 2, and so on….
Chapter 17 Piping Data Between Data Sources – PB Docs 105
Chapter 17 Piping Data Between Data Sources About this chapter This chapter tells you how you can use a Pipeline object in your application to pipe data from one or more source tables to a new or existing destination table. Contents Topic About data pipelines Building the objects you need Performing some initial housekeeping Starting…
Building the objects you need – PB Docs 105
Building the objects you need To implement data piping in an application, you need to build a few different objects: A Pipeline object A supporting user object A window Building a Pipeline object You must build a Pipeline object to specify the data definition and access aspects of the pipeline that you want your application…