PowerBuilder has two kinds of online Help: HTML Help and Windows Help.
HTML Help contains several PowerBuilder books: this User's Guide, Application Techniques, the DataWindow Programmer's Guide, Connecting to Your Database, Deploying Applications and Components to .NET, and, for PowerBuilder Enterprise users, Working with JSP Targets.
Context-sensitive Help and reference information for JSP targets is also in HTML format in a separate HTML Help file that is launched when you select Help in a JSP target. This context-sensitive and reference Help is installed only if you install the JSP targets feature.
Windows Help contains a list of new features in this release, context-sensitive Help, all the reference information in Objects and Controls, the DataWindow Reference, and the PowerScript Reference, and Help for tools such as the Migration Assistant and the Profiling and DWSyntax tools.
Some Windows Help topics provide links to related topics in the HTML Help.
Table 1-8 lists the ways you can access Help.
Approach |
What it does |
|---|---|
Use the Help menu on the menu bar |
Displays the Help contents, the What’s New in PowerBuilder Help, or Help for the current painter. |
In a wizard, click the Help button [?] in the upper right corner of the window |
The pointer displays with a question mark so you can get context-sensitive Help. Point and click in a field you need Help on. |
In the Properties view in a painter, select Help from the pop-up menu on any tab page |
Displays a Help topic from which you can get Help on the properties, events, and functions for the object or control whose properties are displaying in the Properties view. |
Add a Help button to the PowerBar and use it |
Displays the Help contents. |
Press F1 |
Displays the Help contents. |
Press Shift+F1 in the Script view or Function painter |
Displays context-sensitive Help about the function, event, or keyword under the cursor. |
Select Help from the pop-up menu in the Browser |
Displays Help for the Browser or for the selected object, control, or function. |
Click the Help button in a dialog box |
Displays information about that dialog box. |
Click the link to HTML Help icon in a Windows Help topic |
Opens the HTML Help at the linked topic. |
PowerBuilder books are also provided on the Sybooks CD and the Sybase Product Manuals Web site. For more information, see “Other sources of information”.
