PowerBuilder Interface

Please note that Sub Systems, Inc. does not test this product with PowerBuilder, however we have a number of users who are successfully using this product under PowerBuilder. The remainder of this chapter is a contribution from one of our kind PowerBuilder developers as a guide to using TE under PowerBuilder.

A Sybase PowerBuilder application can incorporate the editor as an OCX control for 32 bit applications. The instructions presented here are specific to version 6.5 of PowerBuilder. PowerBuilder versions 6.0 and 5.0 are sufficiently similar that these instructions should be applicable. Versions of PowerBuilder earlier than 5.0 supported the creation of objects with VBX controls for building 16 bit versions of your application. If you have an earlier version of PowerBuilder that supports creation of VBX user objects, you may be able to create a VBX user object and migrate it in PowerBuilder to the present version. The principles for using OCX controls presented here must be adapted to work with a migrated VBX object.

In this chapter

Editor Control as an OCX: — In PowerBuilder, an OCX is incorporated into you application as a Standard User Object. You need to create a new Standard User Object of…
TER Events and PowerBuilder Events: — PowerBuilder provides a set of standard events including clicked, doubleclicked, etc. Many of these events are not supported by u_ter…
Initialize the OCX control:
OCX Events, Properties and Methods: — Here is more information on u_ter events, properties and meth9ods. Open the u_ter object in PowerBuilder. Right click on the u_ter user…
Using DLL Functions with the OCX: — Much of the TER functionality is accessed through the dll functions. To access a dll function, the function must be declared. The…