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Synopsis
Getting Started with PowerBuilder 5 takes a comprehensive look at application development using PowerBuilder 5. Users learn first-hand how to analyze, design and implement a simple PowerBuilder application.


Audience
This course is for Windows software developers who are new to PowerBuilder.


Time
8 hours

Product Code: PB5TC2
After completing Getting Started with PowerBuilder 5, the user should be able to:
 
Perform Entity/Relationship Modeling
Analyze, design, and implement a database
Define an application in more detail
Describe the ins and outs of window design and development inside PowerBuilder
Use window controls
Define menus for a window and associate a menu with a window

Understanding Analysis and Design
Teaches the concepts, principles, and practices of analysis and design of databases, including requirements gathering and resource allocation.
 
Using Entity/Relationship Modeling
Normalizing entity relationship models

Designing a System with the Database Painter
Shows how to use the database painter to create, update, and administer a database. Also shows how to add or update data.
 
Using the database painter
Creating, maintaining, and administering a database
Accessing and updating data in database tables

Using the Application Painter
Explains the basics of using the application painter to manage application objects.
 
Defining an application object and its contents
Setting application object properties

Exploring Windows
Describes what can be done with a window in the Windows environment to provide a graphical user interface to an application.
 
Different window types
Setting window properties
Adding and implementing window controls
Implementing window inheritance

Designing Menus
Describes how to implement menus to issue commands, trigger events, and control the flow of an application.
 
Menu design
Developing a menu using the menu painter
Building a menu using inheritance
Building toolbars from menu elements
Associating a menu with a window

This course is distributed with the PowerBuilder 5 Glossary.

 

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