View the scripts inherited from the user object

Now you view the scripts the DataWindow controls inherited from u_dwstandard.

  1. Double-click the dw_detail DataWindow in the Layout view

    or

    Select dw_detail from the first drop-down list box in the Script view if it is not already selected.

    The Script view opens to the empty script for the dw_detail control's ItemChanged event.

    Unscripted events are alphabetized separately from scripted events. Scripted events are listed at the top of the drop-down list box. You will next look at the dberror event, which contains an ancestor script, so you need to scroll up in the event drop-down list box to find it.

  2. Select dberror from the second drop-down list box in the Script view.

    This script is also empty, but a purple script icon displays next to the event name. This indicates that the ancestor control (u_dwstandard) has an associated script.

  3. Select Edit>Go To>Ancestor Script from the menu bar

    or

    Select u_dwstandard in the third drop-down list box.

    PowerBuilder displays the script for the DBError event in the Script view. The ancestor script is read-only when it is accessed from the Script view for one of its descendants.

  4. Scroll through the window to view the database error-handling logic defined for the DBError event.

    The script suppresses the default error message that the DBError event normally displays. Instead, it causes an appropriate message to be displayed for each database error that might occur. The script makes calls to user events that were declared for the user object.

    Because you used the u_dwstandard object to define both DataWindow controls in the window, this logic is automatically reused in both controls.

  5. Select Edit>Go To>Descendant Script from the menu bar

    or

    Right-click inside the script area of the Script view.

    Select Go To>Descendant Script from the pop-up menu.

    The third drop-down list box again displays w_master_detail_ancestor, the identifier of the object that contains the current control. The script for the DBError event of this control (dw_detail) is still blank.