Using wizards
Once you’ve created a workspace you can add new or
existing targets to it. The first step in building a new PowerBuilder target
is to use a Target wizard to create the new target and name it.
About wizards
Wizards simplify
the initial creation of applications and components. Using your
specifications, wizards can create multiple objects and in some
cases automatically generate complex code that you can modify as
needed. The first page in most wizards explains what the wizard
builds. If you need help with the information you need to give the
wizard, click the Help [?] button in the upper right
corner of the window and then click the field you need help with,
or click the field and press F1.
You start wizards from the New dialog box, but not all the
icons in the New dialog box represent wizards. All the icons on
the Target page start wizards, but only a few of the icons on the
PB Object page do–their labels show which they are. On
the Project tab page, there are two versions of some icons: one
that starts a wizard, and one that takes you straight to the Project
painter.
Many wizards generate To-Do List entries to guide you through
the rest of the development of the application, object, or component.
See “Using the To-Do List”.
Related wizard types
Some of the wizards on the Target, PB Object, and Project
tabs are related. For example, if you want to develop and deploy
EAServer components, you can use:
- EAServer Component Target
wizard To create a new target, a new custom class user object, and
the project object needed to generate the EAServer component and
deploy the component to EAServer - EAServer Component Object wizard To create a new custom class user object in an existing target
and create the project object - EAServer Component Project wizard To create a project object that will generate an EAServer
component from one or more existing custom class user objects
The EAServer Component Target and Object wizards can also
launch the Connection Object wizard, which builds a standard nonvisual
user object, inherited from the Connection object, with properties
preset for connecting to EAServer.