Appeon PowerBuilder® 2017 R3
FOR WINDOWS
LAST REVISED: January 29, 2019
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Table of Contents
- The PowerBuilder Environment
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- Working with PowerBuilder
- Customizing PowerBuilder
- Using Source Control
- Working with Targets
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- Working with Targets
- Working with Libraries
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- About libraries
- Opening the Library painter
- About the Library painter
- Working with libraries
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- Displaying libraries and objects
- Using the pop-up menu
- Controlling columns that display in the List view
- Selecting objects
- Filtering the display of objects
- Creating and deleting libraries
- Filtering the display of libraries and folders
- Working in the current library
- Opening and previewing objects
- Copying, moving, and deleting objects
- Setting the root
- Moving back, forward, and up one level
- Modifying comments
- Searching targets, libraries, and objects
- Optimizing libraries
- Regenerating library entries
- Rebuilding workspaces and targets
- Migrating targets
- Exporting and importing entries
- Creating runtime libraries
- Creating reports on library contents
- Coding Fundamentals
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- Writing Scripts
- Working with User-Defined Functions
- Working with User Events
- Working with Structures
- Working with Windows
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- Working with Windows
- Working with Controls
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- About controls
- Inserting controls in a window
- Selecting controls
- Defining a control's properties
- Naming controls
- Changing text
- Moving and resizing controls
- Copying controls
- Defining the tab order
- Defining accelerator keys
- Specifying accessibility of controls
- Choosing colors
- Using the 3D look
- Using the individual controls
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- CommandButton
- PictureButton
- CheckBox
- RadioButton
- StaticText
- StaticHyperLink
- Picture
- PictureHyperLink
- GroupBox
- Drawing controls
- SingleLineEdit and MultiLineEdit
- EditMask
- HScrollBar and VScrollBar
- HTrackBar and VTrackBar
- HProgressBar and VProgressBar
- DropDownListBox
- DropDownPictureListBox
- ListBox
- PictureListBox
- ListView
- TreeView
- Tab
- MonthCalendar
- DatePicker
- Animation
- InkEdit and InkPicture
- Understanding Inheritance
- Working with Menus and Toolbars
- Working with User Objects
- Working with Databases
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- Managing the Database
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- Working with database components
- Managing databases
- Using the Database painter
- Creating and deleting a SQL Anywhere database
- Working with tables
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- Creating a new table from scratch
- Creating a new table from an existing table
- Specifying column definitions
- Specifying table and column properties
- Altering a table
- Cutting, copying, and pasting columns
- Closing a table
- Dropping a table
- Viewing pending SQL changes
- Printing the table definition
- Exporting table syntax
- About system tables
- Creating and editing temporary tables
- Working with keys
- Working with indexes
- Working with database views
- Manipulating data
- Creating and executing SQL statements
- Controlling access to the current database
- Using the ASA MobiLink synchronization wizard
- Managing MobiLink synchronization on the server
- Working with Data Pipelines
- Working with DataWindows
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- Defining DataWindow Objects
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- About DataWindow objects
- Choosing a presentation style
- Building a DataWindow object
- Selecting a data source
- Using Quick Select
- Using SQL Select
- Using Query
- Using External
- Using Stored Procedure
- Using a Web service data source (Obsolete)
- Using the OData Service (Obsolete)
- Choosing DataWindow object-wide options
- Generating and saving a DataWindow object
- Defining queries
- What's next
- Enhancing DataWindow Objects
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- Working in the DataWindow painter
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- Understanding the DataWindow painter Design view
- Using the DataWindow painter toolbars
- Using the Properties view in the DataWindow painter
- Selecting controls in the DataWindow painter
- Resizing bands in the DataWindow painter Design view
- Using zoom in the DataWindow painter
- Undoing changes in the DataWindow painter
- Using the Preview view of a DataWindow object
- Saving data in an external file
- Modifying general DataWindow object properties
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- Changing the DataWindow object style
- Setting colors in a DataWindow object
- Setting gradients and background pictures in a DataWindow object
- Setting transparency properties for a DataWindow object
- Specifying properties of a grid DataWindow object
- Specifying pointers for a DataWindow object
- Defining print specifications for a DataWindow object
- Modifying text in a DataWindow object
- Defining the tab order in a DataWindow object
- Naming controls in a DataWindow object
- Using borders in a DataWindow object
- Specifying variable-height bands in a DataWindow object
- Modifying the data source of a DataWindow object
- Storing data in a DataWindow object using the Data view
- Retrieving data
- Working with Controls in DataWindow Objects
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- Adding controls to a DataWindow object
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- Adding columns to a DataWindow object
- Adding text to a DataWindow object
- Adding drawing controls to a DataWindow object
- Adding a group box to a DataWindow object
- Adding pictures to a DataWindow object
- Adding computed fields to a DataWindow object
- Adding buttons to a DataWindow object
- Adding graphs to a DataWindow object
- Adding InkPicture controls to a DataWindow object
- Adding OLE controls to a DataWindow object
- Adding reports to a DataWindow object
- Adding table blob controls to a DataWindow object
- Adding tooltips to a DataWindow control
- Reorganizing controls in a DataWindow object
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- Displaying boundaries for controls in a DataWindow object
- Using the grid and the ruler in a DataWindow object
- Deleting controls in a DataWindow object
- Moving controls in a DataWindow object
- Copying controls in a DataWindow object
- Resizing controls in a DataWindow object
- Aligning controls in a DataWindow object
- Equalizing the space between controls in a DataWindow object
- Equalizing the size of controls in a DataWindow object
- Sliding controls to remove blank space in a DataWindow object
- Positioning controls in a DataWindow object
- Rotating controls in a DataWindow object
- Controlling Updates in DataWindow objects
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- About controlling updates
- Specifying the table to update
- Specifying the unique key columns
- Specifying an identity column
- Specifying updatable columns
- Specifying the WHERE clause for update/delete
- Specifying update when key is modified
- Using stored procedures to update the database
- Using a Web service to update the database (Obsolete)
- Displaying and Validating Data
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- About displaying and validating data
- About display formats
- Working with display formats
- Defining display formats
- About edit styles
- Working with edit styles
- Defining edit styles
- Defining a code table
- About validation rules
- Working with validation rules
- Defining validation rules
- How to maintain extended attributes
- Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping Rows
- Highlighting Information in DataWindow Objects
- Using Nested Reports
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- About nested reports
- Creating a report using the Composite presentation style
- Placing a nested report in another report
- Working with nested reports
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- Adjusting nested report width and height
- Changing a nested report from one report to another
- Modifying the definition of a nested report
- Adding another nested report to a composite report
- Supplying retrieval arguments to relate a nested report to its base report
- Specifying criteria to relate a nested report to its base report
- Using options for nested reports
- Working with Graphs
- Working with Crosstabs
- Working with TreeViews
- Exporting and Importing XML Data
- Working with Rich Text
- Using OLE in a DataWindow Object
- Running Your Application
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- Debugging and Running Applications
- Tracing and Profiling Applications
- Creating Executables and Components
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- About building PowerBuilder targets
- Creating a project
- Using the Project painter
- Defining an executable application project
- Using dynamic libraries
- Attaching or embedding manifest files
- Distributing resources
- Tracing execution
- Building an executable file and dynamic libraries
- Building proxies and .NET targets
- Appendixes
