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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
After using PB2022 R2 for about 6 hours this day, the IDE crashed (no surprises here).Now each time I am trying to start it, I get the following message, so I am unable to use IDE! I tried restarting the computer (Windows 11 Enterprise 22H2), rein...
Morning Everyone Has anyone used PowerBuilder to access an Azure Key Vault secret? In it's simplest form it's a HTTPS Get which is not difficult, but I'm trying to understand the security authentication required. If someone else has cracked this one...
Hello All,   I am getting an error that I cannot resolve after trying multiple attempts at solving it. My coworker can deploy fine to the IIS server with no issues. I am using the same project that was cloned from the Git server. In this workspa...
hi guru, PowerBuilder Runtime version : PB2022 R2 build 2828 I'm trying to use jsonpackage to extract value for "distance" and "duration"...but seem the result was not correct.  Please help to advise what wrong with the parser...many thanks.  The ...
Hi, I migrated my PB from 2021 to 2022 (22.0.0.1892). While I am going to print any data, it is taking too times to send the data to printer. Until migrate, there is no any issue in the printing area..   Have any solution ?...
Hi all, I'm using RPC to call MSSQL stored procedures. local externa function on transaction object  function long PORADI_DNE(datetime DATUM,ref int SEKVENCE) RPCFUNC ALIAS FOR "dbo.PORADI_DNE" If there is  raiserror ('Error from procedure',3,1)...
Hi,   I've DataWindow with EditMask fields. I know how to set numerical masks with # chars. But the '####' mask ignores multiple 0 chars on lead. I can trim 0 chars on lead ex. 000754 to 754. Is possible to set a mask to block entry 0 char before t...
When I open (navigate) to a PDF in runtime I get a menu with save icon its looks nice. During runtime no save icon and only download icon and it does nothing. Looks like a chrome download screen   What is is missing ? I dont receive any errors.   ...
Hi, I'm a developer from C#. In WinForms, I can disable/enable the rendering of the form (window). How can I do it in PowerBuilder? What is the best solution to freeze (disable rendering) all controls on view in PowerBuilder? Regards, Pawel  ...
Hello everyone i'm trying to understand how PostgreSQL is behaving against Powerbuilder 2022 R3, in particular the auto-increment columns. I've create a new postgres DB with a simple table called "test"; Reading the documentation i see that there ar...
Hi PB community... Is there any way to obtain the parent menu of a menu? If for example I have the reference of a leaf menu, can I "travel" from that menu to it's root? I know I can use the item[] property to get the child menu items, I suppose I ...
Could you recommend a product to perform DAST and SAST scans on PowerBuilder code?...
Hello all, We are running PB2022 V1878. I need a way to convert word docs, excel files, etc to pdf programmatically. We are currently using Win2PDF as a printer, but I can't seem to find a way to convert. We've just started using pdfdocument to pdf...
Hi all, I am trying the new version PB 2022 R3 (RT 3289). When using the themes, I've noticed that the response windows have enlarged right and bottom borders.When I switch to RT 2828 (R2), everything looks fine. When I turn off the themes, it's als...
I recently discover the MaxBox, MinBox and X in a Datawindow TitleBar but when I click in the X or the Maxbox or MinBox everything reacts at the datawindow level. I want to Minimize or Maximize or Close the Window. So I will like to find which event ...
According to the 2022 PB documentation GetUpdateStatus is obsolete and will be discontinued in a future release. Then how do I get the update status of a datawindow before updating it? Documentation of PB 2022 says to use DBError and SQLPreview eve...
PB 2022 1900 I don't think its possible (I tried) but maybe someone has a way.  Oracle came out with Named Notation quite some time ago and I want to use it in PB.  Something like this:      FUNCTION Long EndUnload (Long anSourceIdx => SourceIdx...
Hi   Have the following problem in PB 2022. (PB 2022 R2 Build 2819) messagebox("384.22 - double('384,22')", 384.22 - double('384,22')) Result: 5,6843418860808E-14   With 384.23 it's ok: messagebox("384.23 - double('384,23')", 384.23 - double('...
Hi and happy new year, We use dw2xls (Desta) for exporting dws to Excel. There's a specific dw that failed to generate an xlsx that could be opened by Excel. (Ironically, LibreOffice has no problems with it). So after spending quite some time, I fi...
Hi, Automation tool Ranorex Spy is not able to find the xpath of text label element. Accessibility = 1 is there in pb.ini file. There is a screenshot attached highlighting the issue.  This issue was not there with PB 2022. The issue is now coming...


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