Mastering PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder - World Wide Web

You might know by now that, Internet changed the way people access information. As PowerBuilder developers, we are not left behind the momentum. We can deploy our PowerBuilder applications on the web in different ways.

Objectives

• Introduction to the World Wide Web (WWW).
• Overview of ActiveX controls.
• Overview of Plug-ins.
• Generating HTML tables for DataWindows.
• Generating HTML forms for DataWindows.
• Deploying DataWindows using DataWindow Plug-ins.
• Deploying Windows using Window Plug-ins, ActiveX control.
• Accessing web pages from within PowerBuilder applications.
• Controlling ActiveX Automation Server from PowerBuilder application.
• Displaying web pages.
• Executing CGI scripts using GET, POST methods.
• Using Distributed PowerBuilder Objects for the Web.

Pre-requisites:

To practice all the examples in this session, you need to have the following softwares.

• PowerBuilder version 6.0
• Web.PB Class Library and Its DLLs
• PBRX60.OCX
• PBRXS60.OCX (optional)
• NPPBX60.DLL
• NPPBXS60.DLL (Optional)
• npdwe050.DLL or npdwe60.dll
• npdwes60.dll (Optional)
• nppba050.dll OR nppba60.dll