1. Roy Bungert
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Thursday, 31 January 2019 09:27 AM UTC

Since years there is one annoying thing for me:

What is the best practice to find the name of a pbl which contains a certain object.

The problem:

I have a project with 40-50 pbls. I want to know where I can find the object "w_user" because I want to export it (or want to import it). The easiest way would be a search in the sytemtree - and only in the systemtree! If I do a search in the systemtree I get all the references etc. too. This ar too much informations.

The object browse could help me a little bit. But there is no search function in the object browser :-(

And ideas?

 

Roy

 

Christophe Dufourmantelle Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 31 January 2019 10:43 AM UTC
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  3. # 1

Hi Roy,

You can use the Visual Expert search feature, enter the name of your object and search for it.

Optionally, you can specify a type of object, some operators or even a regular expression if you don't have the exact name and need to narrow down a large result set.

The corresponding object(s) will be listed with their respective PBLs.

 

Regards,
Christophe

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Philippe PILAT Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:44 PM UTC
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  3. # 2

Hi Roy,

you can use the object browser (Tools -> Browser) to find the object you search then right click and edit. The object will then open in the associated painter.

HTH.

Regards,

Philippe

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Roy Bungert Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 1 February 2019 07:12 AM UTC
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  3. # 3

This is how I do it now. But there is so "Search" option in the browser.

 

Why can't Appeon offer such a simple option like searching through a treeobject?

It shouldn't be so complicated ;-)

 

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Roy Bungert Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 1 February 2019 07:13 AM UTC
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  3. # 4

Thank you. But I'm looking for a native solution inside Powerbuilder.

 

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Roland Smith Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 1 February 2019 13:26 PM UTC
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  3. # 5

I suggest you take a look at PBSearch. It has several features including finding what library an object is located in.

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/pbsearch.html

There is no native way to do that. Even the string search has problems.

 

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  1. Georgios Papageorgiou
  2. Saturday, 2 February 2019 15:28 PM UTC
I have been using the PBSearch now for years - can't imagine a day without :)



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Matthew Balent Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 1 February 2019 13:44 PM UTC
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  3. # 6

Right click on the Target, choose 'Search', input the control name, search.

If would be nice if you had the option to only search for a control or object and not everwhere the search string is used.

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Ashutosh Varshney Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 1 February 2019 20:42 PM UTC
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  3. # 7

Roy,

I agree with you - finding an object if you do knot know what library it is in is not easy. But it should be. I do not believe the search function of the IDE finds the actual object.  

What I do is I find the object using the object browser, open it and then select File - SaveAs. PB defaults the SaveAs library to the library which contains the object. The object browser lists alphabetically which makes it a tiny bit easier to locate.

HTH.

 

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Phil Wallingford Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:38 PM UTC
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  3. # 8

PBSearch is it!  Everyone should have it.

 

Phil

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Rodolfo Reyes Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 14 February 2019 15:58 PM UTC
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  3. # 9

I use PBSerach. It integrates very well with the PowerBuilder toolbar.

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