The PowerBuilder Setup program installs the Web ActiveX and the Transaction Object control in the system registry. You can find them in the System Tree on the Components tab.
These procedures provide a summary of the ways you author Web pages with ActiveX controls in a Web target.
To find the controls in the System Tree:
Select the Components tab.
Expand ActiveX Controls.
Expand Controls.
Look for the controls with these names:
Sybase DataWindow Web Control 10.5
Sybase DataWindow Transaction Object Control
These controls have Properties and Methods branches (the Web ActiveX also has an Events branch) that you can expand to view available properties and methods.
To add the controls to a Web page:
Drag the control name from the System Tree to the Web page or Select Insert>Component>ActiveX from the menu bar, select the Controls page, make sure that Controls is selected in the drop-down list box, and select the control (Sybase DataWindow Web Control or Sybase DataWindow Transaction Object Control) you want.
To set standard ActiveX properties for the control:
In the Page view, right-click the control and select ActiveX OBJECTn Properties from the pop-up menu, where n is the order in which the object is placed on the page. When you specify a name for the control, the menu item uses that name instead of OBJECTn. or In Source view, right-click the Object tag and select Properties from the pop-up menu.
In the ActiveX Properties dialog box, specify the values you want. Some of the more common attributes to set include:
Network Code Base—its value is the URL and version number of the CAB file that the browser downloads to install the ActiveX control
For more about the CODEBASE attribute, see “HTML for inserting the controls on a Web page”.
Width and Height—also set by dragging the control’s resizing handles in Page view
Name for forms and scripting
To set custom properties for the controls:
In the Page view, right-click the control and select Sybase DataWindow Web Control Properties (or Sybase DataWindow Transaction Object Control Properties) from the pop-up menu.
For information on specifying the DataWindow object on the General tab page, see “Specifying a DataWindow object for the control”.
For information about specifying connection information on the Transaction and Trans User tab pages, see “Making database connections”.
The custom properties dialog box is not available from the Source view.
Where to set connection properties
You need to set connection properties only once. If you are
using a separate Transaction Object control, you do not need to
set properties on the Transaction and Trans User pages for the Web
ActiveX. The same property pages are available for the Transaction
Object control.
To use the System Tree when writing code for the
controls:
On the Page tab of the System Tree, expand window in the Client Side branch.
Under window, expand Properties and find the name of your control as one of the properties.
For the control, expand Properties, Events, or Methods.
Find the item you want to insert in the script editor and drag it to its position in the code.
A fully qualified expression is inserted, such as:
window.dw1.Describe(propertylist)
window.dw1.dbParm
Substitute your own variables and expressions for method parameters.
