Description

Actions that were previously available as buttons in the Browser, as well as new actions, have been moved to the popup menus. You can open an object in a painter from its popup menu.

Purpose

You can use the Browser to access information about any object in your application and to launch PowerBuilder painters.

Usage

Select an object or control and display its popup menu. The Browser focus changes to that object or control.

The menus for the left pane and the right pane have some common menu items and some unique menu items. When there is only one pane, the popup menu is the same as the right pane popup menu.

 

Menu item	Pane			Does this
Edit	L		—	Opens the selected object, or the parent of the selected control, in the appropriate painter
Copy	L		R	Copies the selected object or control to the clipboard
Paste	L		R	Pastes the object or control from the clipboard into the script
Expand All	L		R	Expands the objects or controls within the selected object
Regenerate	—		R	Regenerates descendants of the selected object
Show Inherited	L	—		Toggles between displaying inherited properties, functions, events, and variables (on) and displaying only items defined in that object (off)
Show Legend	L		—	Toggles between displaying (on) and hiding (off) the text describing the selected property, function, event, or variable
Show Hierarchy	—		R	Toggles between displaying objects in an inheritance hierarchy (on) and an alphabetical listing (off)
Document	L		R	Copies information about the selected object to a preview window with printing, exporting, and copying options
Help	L		R	Displays context-sensitive Help