Table of Contents

Working with PowerBuilder

About PowerBuilder

Concepts and terms

Workspaces and targets

Objects

DataWindow objects

PowerBuilder libraries

Painters and editors

Events and scripts

Functions

Properties

Source control

PowerBuilder extensions

The PowerBuilder environment

The System Tree

The PowerBar

The Clip window

The Output window

Creating and opening workspaces

Creating a workspace

Opening a workspace

Using wizards

About wizards

Creating a target

Target types

Application targets

.NET targets

Managing workspaces

Adding an existing target to a workspace

Removing a target from a workspace

Specifying workspace properties

Building workspaces

In the development environment

From a command line

Working with tools

Using the To-Do List

Using the file editor

Using online help

Building an application

Customizing PowerBuilder

Starting PowerBuilder with an open workspace

Using options in the development environment

Using a workspace file

Using command line arguments

Changing default layouts

Arranging the System Tree, Output, and Clip windows

Using views in painters

Using toolbars

Toolbar basics

Drop-down toolbars

Controlling the display of toolbars

Moving toolbars using the mouse

Customizing toolbars

Creating new toolbars

Customizing keyboard shortcuts

Changing fonts

Defining colors

How the PowerBuilder environment is managed

About the registry

About the initialization file

Using Source Control

About source control systems

Using SVN or Git

Using source control manager via SCC API

Using PBNative

Constraints of a multi-user environment

Extension to the SCC API

Using SVN source control system

Add a workspace to SVN

Get a workspace from SVN

Commit objects to SVN

Get objects from SVN

Resolve conflicts

Revert changes

Refresh objects

Upload PBL

Lock objects

Show logs

Compare objects

View the connection settings

View the status of source-controlled objects

Using Git source control system

Add a workspace to Git

Get a workspace from Git

Commit objects to Git

Get objects from Git

Resolve conflicts

Revert changes

Refresh objects

Upload PBL

Show logs

Compare objects

View the connection settings

View the status of source-controlled objects

Using source control systems via SCC API

Using a source control system with PowerBuilder

Source control operations via SCC API in PowerBuilder

Initialization settings that affect source control

Modifying source-controlled targets and objects

Migrating existing projects under source control