Introduction to PowerBuilder

OLE 2.0 Control

Since, OLE is a huge topic in itself and can't be explained here, we will about it explain briefly; we won't go into much details at this point because it would be too advanced at this stage.

An OLE control allows you to place a non-PowerBuilder object in the PowerBuilder window (You can create an OLE object from PowerBuilder and place that one also. Details in the coming sessions). For example, you want to present a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from within PowerBuilder application, or you may want to allow the user to edit a document in MS-Word invoked directly from PowerBuilder. In the above two cases user  won't even know that another package is being invoked. He feels to be in PowerBuilder but actually no.

At this initial stage we think it would be enough, rather than to introduce too many new technologies.

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