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  1. Richard Hartman
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  3. Wednesday, 19 February 2025 05:23 AM UTC

I am working on an inherited application using Powerbuilder 2021 ... but I am pretty sure this was originally from an earlier version.  Possibly 2019.  

I am new to powerbuilder so I may be missing some basic knowledge -- don't assume ANYTHING for me.

I just touched a panel (that is in a tab, that is in a form -- these may not be the proper nomenclature for PB, but I presume the context makes it clear what I am talking about).  And now it won't compile, complaining about 
undefined variable: ib_equipenabled
on the line:
ib_EquipEnabled = FALSE

I went to declare an instance variable:
boolean ib_EquipEnabled = true

And then it complained 
instance name with same name as property: ib_equipenabled

I looked at the properties for the panel, tab, and form ... and could not find ib_equipenabled in any of them.

cheating and editing the sru file directly, I found:

  event ue_enableequipselect ( boolean ab_equipselect )
  event ue_popupcontactlist pbm_dwnkey
  cb_reconfirmstatus cb_reconfirmstatus
  p_notes p_notes
  boolean ib_TimeEditInProg = FALSE, ib_EquipEnabled
  string is_CurTimeColumn, is_temp

So underneath the events were what I _thought_ were instance variables, but none of them showed up in the declare instance variables window.  And when I did declare one of them it seems like these are actually properties.

But if they are properties, why the first error about the undefined variable?   And where would I find it as a property?

I am thinking that something about setting properties may have changed with 2022 from 2019 (or earlier?) resulting in the undefined variable error, that it only complained about when I touched that module.   

How do I fix this?




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