PowerBuilder Plug-in Architecture

Question

PowerBuilder seems to have some support for plug-ins since version 10. However, I can't find any documentation nor tutorials about this. The only hints I can manage are by examining the COM objects inside the existing DLLs. It doesn't help much, but I'm a novice at COM development.

A very cursory example of how to do something would be awesome.

EDIT To clarify, this is related to my other question about SCC integration. I'm looking for a way to do a "Check Out..." on a datawindow control on a window more directly. The current procedure is this:

• Right-click on datawindow
• Click on "Modify Datawindow"
• Look at the PBL in the window title
• Close the datawindow painter
• Open the library painter / system tree
• Scroll to (and expand) the correct PBL
• Right-click on the datawindow
• Click "Check Out..."
• Open datawindow

This seems... sub-optimal. Maybe it'll be another reason to push for PB12 (despite other issues with the new IDE).

Answer 1

Agreed. However, Sybase never released any documentation on the API.

The plug-in architecture was originally developer to support PowerDesiger as a plug-in. Given that

1) the latest version (12) will come in two flavors, one of them based on the isolated Visual Studio shell which wouldn't support the plug-in API and

2) that there was talk about doing away with the PowerDesigner plug-in because of a lack of interest in it

I wouldn't spend a whole lot of time trying to figure out how to implement something through it.

Answer 2

Maybe it would help if you described what it is you really want to do. There might be some other options about this.