Introduction to PowerBuilder

Accessing Object's Attributes

Each object has certain attributes or properties. To see properties of a CommandButton, invoke the Object Browser, select System tab page, and click on CommandButton option. Now double-click on the properties, which is located in the right side box.

To access object attributes, use the object name and the attribute name with a period in-between. For example, to store the window title in a variable, you can write:

String ls_WindowTitle ls_WindowTitle = w_script_practice.title

To change the window title, you can write:

w_script_practice.title = "New Title"

Let us hide the cb_left button whenever user clicks on the cb_right button. Write the following for the Clicked event of the cb_right button.

cb_left.visible = false

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