Providing toolbars – PB Docs 90
Providing toolbars To make your MDI application easier to use, you can add toolbars with buttons that users can click as a shortcut for choosing an item from a menu. You can associate a toolbar with the MDI frame and a toolbar with the active sheet. This screen shows New, Print, and Exit buttons on…
Sizing the client area – PB Docs 90
Sizing the client area PowerBuilder sizes the client area in a standard MDI frame window automatically and displays open sheets unclipped within the client area. It also sizes the client area automatically if you have defined a toolbar based on menu items, as described in the preceding section. However, in a custom MDI frame window—where…
About keyboard support in MDI applications – PB Docs 90
About keyboard support in MDI applications PowerBuilder MDI applications automatically support arrow keys and shortcut keys. Arrow keys In an MDI frame, how the pointer moves when the user presses an arrow key depends on where focus is when the key is pressed: Table 5-4: Arrow key focus changes Key If focus is in Focus…
PowerBuilder component on EAServer – PB Docs 90
PowerBuilder component on EAServer To run PowerBuilder components in EAServer, the runtime libraries for the version and build number of PowerBuilder in which the components were developed must be available on the server. When you install a maintenance release of PowerBuilder and deploy new or updated components to EAServer, make sure that the PowerBuilder VM…
Chapter 18 Using OLE in an Application – PB Docs 90
Chapter 18 Using OLE in an Application About this chapter This chapter describes several ways of implementing OLE in your PowerBuilder applications. Contents Topic OLE support in PowerBuilder OLE controls in a window OLE controls and insertable objects OLE custom controls Programmable OLE Objects OLE objects in scripts OLE information in the Browser Advanced ways…
Chapter 6 Managing Window Instances – PB Docs 90
Chapter 6 Managing Window Instances About this chapter This chapter describes how to manage several instances of the same window. Contents Topic About window instances Declaring instances of windows Using window arrays Referencing entities in descendants Document get from Powerbuilder help Thank you for watching.
About window instances – PB Docs 90
About window instances When you build an application, you may want to display several windows that are identical in structure but have different data values. For example, you may have a w_employee window and want to display information for two or more employees at the same time by opening multiple copies (instances) of the w_employee…
Declaring instances of windows – PB Docs 90
Declaring instances of windows Because a window is actually a datatype, you can declare variables of that datatype, just as you can declare integers, strings, and so on. You can then refer to those variables in code. For example:
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w_employee mywin |
declares a variable named mywin of type w_employee. Limitation of using variables When you declare…
Rich text and the user – PB Docs 90
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 Users can: Use the toolbars for text formatting Use the pop-up menu, which includes using the clipboard…
Using window arrays – PB Docs 90
Using window arrays To create an array of windows, declare an array of the datatype of the window. For example, the following statement declares an array named myarray, which contains five instances of the window w_employee:
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w_employee myarray[5] |
You can also create unbounded arrays of windows if the number of windows to be opened is not…