My PowerBuilder Help Favorites
Okay, so I have some usability issues with the ‘Help’ application in PB version 12.5 but that’s another story.
My current favorites are:
- Building a window
- Calling functions and events in an object’s ancestor
- Datatypes for external function arguments
- DataWindow Object Properties
- defining display formats
- Evaluating DataWindow expressions in the Describe function
- MouseMove (flags and mousemove)
- painter views
- PowerBuilder runtime files
- Scrolling in windows and user objects
- Treeview getitem
Which ones do you find helpful to keep at your fingertips?
Not exactly help, but I always set up a toolbar icon (rabbit in the hat) for the DWSyntax tool. Tip of the hat to Terry Dykstra for digging out the magic words.
wizard:?action=runonly&entry=k60_dwsyntax_sheet
Hi...
The datawindowsyntax is awesome.
Andreas.
I use:
Database parameters and supported database interfaces
About DataWindow data expressions (as Guillaume mentions)... Very helpful and deep analysis.
Andreas.
Mine are...
Probably just because its difficult to quickly locate them in the help. I find it funny that I sometimes even have problems trying to locate my bookmarks in the help system, because they aren't available as a tab on the main help window, you have to actually pick some content first, then bookmarks become part of the menu-structure on the content window.