Installing and configuring the PowerBuilder window plug-ins

The PowerBuilder window plug-ins are not installed on your computer if you select the Typical setup type when you install PowerBuilder. You can install the plug-ins by running a custom installation of PowerBuilder and checking the Web Plugins box on the Select Components page. Click the Change button on that page to select the plug-ins and controls you want to install.

This section describes setup tasks that you may need to perform after installing the plug-ins.

Installation location

The PowerBuilder window plug-in DLLs are installed in the PowerBuilder 10.5\Internet Tools\Plugins directory. The PowerBuilder installation program may also install a copy of the plug-ins in your Web browser’s Plugins directory if you have Netscape installed.

If you have no browser installed or the installation program did not find the browser, you need to install Netscape and then copy or move the plug-ins to the browser’s Plugins directory.

PowerBuilder deployment DLLs

The PowerBuilder window plug-in must know the location of the PowerBuilder runtime DLLs (PBVM105.DLL, PBDWE105.DLL and so forth). If the Setup program finds your browser, it will make the appropriate registry modifications, but if it cannot find your browser, you must make the modifications. You can do this in one of two ways: