Mastering PowerBuilder

Developing Windows

Following the below mentioned guidelines will makes the application deployment more easy.

While placing window controls on the window make them approximately 50-60% more wider. In the future when you develop applications for Asian languages you may need to increase the height of each control also.

Assign tag values to all window controls. This will be used as MicroHelp on the status bar. To display MicroHelp for DataWindow objects, you need to define tag values for each field in the DataWindow object painter and not in the Window painter. In the window painter you can define the tag values for the DataWindow control it self, not for the fields in the DataWindow object. Minimize the use of bitmaps with the text. Be careful while using image files that have different meanings in different countries.

Powersoft recommends to open visual user objects dynamically in the script, instead of placing them on the window directly.