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

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

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 ;-)

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

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.

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.

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.

PBSearch is it!  Everyone should have it.

Phil

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