What you do in the Database painter

In the Database painter, you can:

• Create, modify, and delete named edit styles

  The edit styles are stored in the extended attribute system
  tables. Once you define an edit style, it can be used by any column
  of the appropriate datatype in the database.

• Assign edit styles to columns

  These styles are used by default when you place the column
  in a DataWindow object in the DataWindow painter.

What you do in the DataWindow painter

In the DataWindow painter, you can:

• Accept the default edit style assigned to a column in the Database painter

• Override the default edit style with another named
  style stored in the extended attribute system tables

• Create an ad hoc, unnamed edit style to use with
  one specific column

Edit styles and the extended attribute system
tables

When you have placed a column in a DataWindow object and have given
it an edit style (either the default style from the assignment made
in the Database painter for the column or a style assigned in the DataWindow painter), PowerBuilder records
the name and definition of the edit style in the DataWindow object.