Description of Transaction object properties – PB Docs 150
Description of Transaction object properties Table 12-1 describes each Transaction object property. For each of the ten connection properties, it also lists the equivalent field in the Database Profile Setup dialog box that you complete to create a database profile in the PowerBuilder development environment. Transaction object properties for your PowerBuilder database interface For the…
About Transaction objects – PB Docs 150
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 Transaction Objects – PB Docs 150
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.
Data Access Techniques – PB Docs 150
Data Access Techniques This part presents a collection of techniques you can use to implement data access features in the applications you develop with PowerBuilder. It includes using Transaction objects, XML processing, graphs, rich text, and piping of data between data sources. The use of DataWindow objects and DataStores for data access is described in…
Providing online help for users – PB Docs 150
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 HTML Help API as an external function and use the…
Providing online help for developers – PB Docs 150
Providing online help for developers You can provide your own online help for your user-defined functions, user events, and user objects into the PowerBuilder development environment. How context-sensitive help for user-defined functions works When you select the name of a function or place the cursor in the function name in the Script view and press…
Application Techniques – PB Docs 150
Application Techniques Audience You should read this book if you are involved in any phase of a client/server, distributed, or Web application development project that uses PowerBuilder®. How to use this book This how-to book guides you through programming techniques used to build and deploy PowerBuilder applications and components. It does this by equipping you…
Browsing the examples – PB Docs 150
Browsing the examples When the Code Examples application opens, the left pane contains an expandable tree view listing the categories of examples available. Some examples appear in more than one category. For example, the Business Class example is listed under Inheritance and User Objects. If you are looking for examples showing how to work with…
Providing Online Help for an Application – PB Docs 150
Providing Online Help for an Application About this chapter This chapter describes how to provide online help for other PowerBuilder developers and for end users on Windows. Contents Topic Creating help files Providing online help for developers Providing online help for users Document get from Powerbuilder help Thank you for watching.
Creating help files – PB Docs 150
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 Microsoft HTML Help files use the Microsoft HTML Help compiler (hhc.exe) to generate a finished help file. What to include The source files for any help…