Building a standard visual user object – PB Docs 2021

To build a standard visual user object

1. In the Select Standard Visual Type dialog box, select the
   PowerBuilder control you want to use to build your standard visual
   user object and click OK.

   The selected control displays in the workspace. Your visual
   user object will have the properties and events associated with
   the PowerBuilder control you are modifying.

2. Work with the control as you do in the Window
   painter:

   • Review the default properties and make any necessary
     changes

   • Declare functions, structures, or variables as
     necessary

     You can declare these in the Script view.

   • Declare any user events needed for the user
     object

     For information about user events, see Communicating between a window and a user
     object.

   • Create and compile the scripts for the user
     object

     Standard visual user objects have the same events as the
     PowerBuilder control you modified to create the object.

3. Save the user object.

   See Saving a user
   object.