Table of Contents

About properties of the DataWindow object and its controls

What you can do with DataWindow object properties

Specifying property values in the DataWindow painter

Accessing DataWindow object property values in code

Using DataWindow expressions as property values

Nested strings and special characters for DataWindow object properties

PowerBuilder: Modify and Describe methods for properties

Advantage and drawbacks of Modify and Describe methods in PowerBuilder

Handling errors from Modify and Describe methods in PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder: DataWindow property expressions

Basic structure of DataWindows and property expressions in PowerBuilder

Datatypes of DataWindow property expressions in PowerBuilder

Using the DWObject variable in PowerBuilder

When a DataWindow property expression is evaluated in PowerBuilder

Handling errors from DataWindow property expressions in PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder syntax for DataWindow property expressions

JavaScript: Modify and Describe methods for properties

Advantage and drawbacks of the Modify and Describe methods in JavaScript

Handling errors for Modify and Describe methods in JavaScript