Introduction to PowerBuilder

Custom Toolbars

With version 5.0, PowerBuilder allows you to create your own toolbar. You can create three more Powerbars. Similarly, you can have seven custom toolbars for each painter. That means, you can add seven Painterbars when the window painter is open. As soon as you close the window painter, all Painterbars are closed. If you invoke say, User Object painter, you see only one Painterbar which is the standard Painterbar. Here again seven more Painterbars can be added.

Creating New Custom Toolbar

To create a new Powerbar, invoke popup menu by clicking with the right mouse-button on the toolbar and select New. Add icons as explained in Adding a Toolbar Icon and select OK button. The new toolbar is placed just below the "Powerbar". Similarly a new Painterbar can be created by invoking popup menu on the Painterbar and selecting the New option.

If you have any problem doing the above, click on the projector icon and download the zipped Lotus Screencam file (adding-custom-toolbar.zip) and watch it .

Deleting a Custom Toolbar

To delete a custom toolbar, invoke the popup menu and select "Customize" option. Select "Reset" button from the dialog box.

Till now you have learned about toolbars. There is one more area which you need to be familiar with before programming. That is the 'Script editor'.

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