Using online Help
PowerBuilder has two kinds of online Help: HTML Help and Windows
Help.
About HTML Help
HTML Help contains several PowerBuilder books: this User’s
Guide
, Application Techniques
, the DataWindow
Programmer’s Guide
, Connecting to Your
Database
, and, for PowerBuilder Enterprise users, Working
with Web and JSP Targets
.
Context-sensitive Help and reference information for Web targets
is also in HTML format in a separate HTML Help file that is launched
when you select Help in a Web target. This context-sensitive and
reference Help is installed only if you install the Web targets
feature.
About Windows Help
Windows Help contains a list of new features in this release,
context-sensitive Help, all the reference information in Objects
and Controls
, the DataWindow Reference
,
and the PowerScript Reference
, and Help for
tools such as the Migration Assistant and the Profiling and DWSyntax
tools. If you installed the PowerBuilder Foundation Class (PFC)
Library, you can open its documentation from the Contents page.
Some Windows Help topics provide links to related topics in
the HTML Help.
Accessing Help
Table 1-8 lists
the ways you can access Help.
| Approach | What it does |
|---|---|
| Use the Help menu on the menu bar | Displays the Help contents, the What’s New in PowerBuilder Help, or Help for the current painter. |
| In a wizard, click the Help button [?] in the upper right corner of the window |
The pointer displays with a question mark so you can get context-sensitive Help. Point and click in a field you need Help on. |
| In the Properties view in a painter, select Help from the pop-up menu on any tab page |
Displays a Help topic from which you can get Help on the properties, events, and functions for the object or control whose properties are displaying in the Properties view. |
| Add a Help button to the PowerBar and use it |
Displays the Help contents. |
| Press F1 | Displays the Help contents. |
| Press SHIFT+F1 in the Script view or Function painter |
Displays context-sensitive Help about the function, event, or keyword under the cursor. |
| Select Help from the pop-up menu in the Browser |
Displays Help for the Browser or for the selected object, control, or function. |
| Click the Help button in a dialog box | Displays information about that dialog box. |
| Click the link to HTML Help icon in a Windows Help topic |
Opens the HTML Help at the linked topic. |
Technical Library CD and Web site
PowerBuilder books are also provided on a Sybase Technical
Library CD and the Technical Library Product Manuals Web site. For
more information, see “Other sources of information”.