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 with collections of techniques for
implementing many common application features and advice for choosing
those techniques best suited to your requirements.

PowerBuilder is accompanied by sample applications that illustrate
some of the issues, features, and techniques you will read about.
Examine the components of these applications in PowerBuilder, read
the comments in the code, and experiment with real, working examples
of what you are trying to learn.

For where to find the sample applications, see Chapter 1, “Using
Sample Applications.”

Other sources of information

Use the Sybase® Getting
Started CD and the Sybase Product Documentation Web site to learn
more about your product:

The Getting Started
CD contains release bulletins and installation guides in PDF format.
It is included with your software. To read or print documents on
the Getting Started CD, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you
can download at no charge from the Adobe Web site using a link provided
on the CD.
The Sybase Product Documentation Web site is accessible
using a standard Web browser. In addition to product documentation,
you will find links to EBFs/Maintenance, Technical Documents,
Case Management, Solved Cases, newsgroups, and the Sybase Developer Network.

To access the Sybase Product Documentation Web site, go to Product Documentation
.

Conventions

The formatting conventions used in this manual are:

Formatting example	Indicates
Retrieve and Update	When used in descriptive text, this font indicates: Command, function, and method names Keywords such as true, false, and null Datatypes such as integer and char Database column names such as emp_id and f_name User-defined objects such as dw_emp or w_main
variable or file name	When used in descriptive text and syntax descriptions, oblique font indicates: Variables, such as myCounter Parts of input text requiring substitution, such as pblname.`pbd` File and path names
File>Save	Menu names and menu items are displayed in plain text. The greater than symbol (>) shows you how to navigate menu selections. For example, File>Save indicates “select Save from the File menu.”
`dw_1.Update()`	Monospace font indicates: Information that you enter in a dialog box or on a command line Sample script fragments Sample output fragments

If you need help

Each Sybase installation that has purchased a support contract
has one or more designated people who are authorized to contact
Sybase Technical Support. If you cannot resolve a problem using
the documentation or online help, please have the designated person
contact Sybase Technical Support or the Sybase subsidiary in your
area.

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