Introduction to PowerBuilder

Stylebar

Stylebar allows you to change the text style - such as text's font, font size, justification, etc.

Stylebar is present only in some painters like "Window" and "User Object". You can see the Stylebar now since you are in the window painter.

The left most value is the selected control's  text property value (you will be using this in the window painter session). By default the value is "none" and you have to change it to the value you want.

The next value 'System' is the font type. You can select the font by clicking on the down arrow. The fonts available in this DropDownListBox depend on the fonts installed on your system. The last three right icons represent justification of the text. They are "right", "Center", "Left" from right side. In versions prior to 5.0, a toolbar named "Colorbar" was prevalent. It allowed you to change the background & foreground colors for a selected control. With version 5.0, it was merged with the Painterbar.

Select Controls/StaticText from the menu.Click on the location you want to place that control. You will see some colored area labeled as none. On the Stylebar (see the above picture) click on 'none' and type What is your name?. You will see the changed text value being applied on the selected control in the window. Now click on the font DropDownListBox arrow and select a font. Change the font size by clicking on the number next to the font. Click on justification buttons one at a time and see how PowerBuilder justifies the text. Close the window by selecting File/Close from the menu. Choose No for the prompt. If you have any problem in doing the above, click on the projector icon and download the zipped Lotus ScreenCam file (stylebar-demo.zip) and watch it.

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