Working with edit styles
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You work with edit styles in the Database painter and DataWindow
painter.
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.
However, if the definition of the edit style later changes in the
extended attribute system tables, the edit style for the column in a
DataWindow object will not change automatically. You can update the
column by reassigning the edit style to it in the DataWindow
object.