Specifications

About InfoMaker libraries and special files
56 InfoMaker
• Bundle reports, forms, and pipelines in an application that you and others
can use
For information about creating an application, see Chapter 21, “Working
with Applications.”
What you cannot do in
the Library painter
You cannot create a library or rename a library in the Library painter. For
information about creating a library, see “Creating new libraries” on page 57.
You cannot create new reports, forms, queries, or pipelines in the Library
painter.
You cannot open objects that are not in the current library.
About InfoMaker libraries and special files
InfoMaker uses libraries and special files.
PBL files
(PowerBuilder
libraries)
PBL files are the libraries you work with in InfoMaker. In the Library painter,
you manage the objects in these libraries. In other painters, you create and
access objects stored in PBLs.
When you open the Library painter the first time
When you open the Library painter, the Library painter has your computer as
the root. You can set the Library painter to display objects in the current library,
tutor_im.pbl. This is the default InfoMaker library that contains sample objects
based on the EAS Demo DB.
Many examples shown in this book are in tutor_im.pbl for your convenience.
You can open the objects, look at their design, and use them.
Two libraries are installed in the InfoMaker 11.5 directory when you install
InfoMaker: imstyletradition115.pbl and imstylecontemp115.pbl. These
libraries are used as templates to create new objects in InfoMaker and should
not be opened and edited. Do not set one of these libraries as your current
library. If you do, its name will not display in the Library pane in the Open,
Run, and Save dialog boxes. You must open another existing library or create
a new one to work in InfoMaker.
PSR files (Powersoft
report files)
PSR files contain reports. Each PSR file contains a report definition (source
and object) as well as the data contained in the report when the PSR file was
created.