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A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor. The toolbar contains a button to as...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
I may be developing inside an AWS sandbox environment which probably won't have it's own internet access.  How do we get an Offline Licence for PB 2022? Thanks Matt...

Security in C/S project

Hello everyone!Do you know if it still makes sense (PB 2022 R3) to apply this security when our C/S app runs on Windows 10/11?I have never used it and I want to see in which case I would use it. Thanks.   ...
when i try to open the response window from our application using PB 2019 R3.It is opening correctly all the button controls were placed correspondingly. Please find the attached screenshot1.   But when i try to open the same window in PB2022 R3 re...
I am trying to use a RibbonMenu that pops from a LargeButtonItem control like the Appeon Demo app.   I have placed stops on all of the events my ribbon bar can trigger, which seems to catch them all.  I downloaded the code for the  Appeon Demo a...
We have windows based application developed on PowerBuilder 2017 and which connects to SQL server 2014. Recently, server protocol upgraded to tls 1.2. From then, application can not connect to database server and it throws SSL hand shake failed error...
Hello  Rolands code Example  worked very well for years for me. Thanks to Roland. But in PB2022.1892 my user event uw_dropfiles from pbm_dropfiles does not fire any longer. The event is implemented in a w_main window. The same code in PB2021.1506 i...
Hi, We have an application created in PowerBuilder, with some services implemented in DotNet. We need to change the mouse cursor from normal to Hourglass. Therefore, we have implemented the following methods to change the cursor and are calling the...
Hi all, I changed a lot of my drop-down lists to autocomplete style before I realized the implications of setting the column to allow edits.  Is there a way in PB to find all columns set for autocomplete (autocomplete not equal to 0)?  Or maybe all ...
*** Can any of the with/without service versions of the CloudAppLauncher_Installer.MSI be enhanced to allow us to designate an alternate location to the  Users’ AppData location that will work for all Users with which we can configure in advance in...
Hi team, Powerserver deployed application undergone for VA/PT process and observed that SSL pinning to be enabled in application, how we can do this? any guide help us Below is the observation Vulnerability: Application is vulnerable to MITM Attac...
Hello, We are currently using third party solutions to use some of our PowerBuilder apps as a service in Windows. However, we are in the middle of a Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2022 migration and we struggle to get one them running ok. T...
Is it possible to develop PowerBuilder 12.6 with SQL Server 2019 database?...
Will we be able to have multiple lines of tabtext in PowerServer as we do with PowerBuilder on our TabPage objects?  Carriage Returns/Newlines are able to be added to the tabtext property. When running on Client-Server they show properly but when ru...
  Hello, do you have any information regarding the news below? This will probably be problematic for both the PowerBuilder IDE and 32-bit compiled applications. Frédéric Desupport of 32-Bit Oracle Database Clients 32-bit Oracle Database clients a...
Hi! We're deploying PB 2022 Build 1892. I came across a situation yesterday that confuses me. Here's the code: lrc_rest = create RESTClient lrc_rest.SecureProtocol = SECURE_PROTOCOL_TLS1_2 lrc_rest.Timeout = 10 ls_get = 'XMLData=<root>&...
Hello, Now that Java (and JDK 1.6 support) has been discontinued in PowerBuilder 2022. What are our alternatives to calling Java Classes from a PowerBuilder application? We have one component in our application that creates the Java Virtual Machine...
I have noticed that any of our newer programs are no longer showing up in the Windows taskbar when they start up.  I didn't notice that issue in our older programs, but it may have happened.  If a program takes a while to start up (working remotely, ...
Our DBA team tested Oracle’s Transparent Application Continuity (TAC) which allows a live switch of the database from one server to another without losing the Oracle connections to the database.  When the test was performed against our PowerBuilder a...
Hello,   I migrated an application from PB 2017 to PB 2022 and I observed a malfunction with the SyntaxfromSQL function. In PB 2017 the dw generated had updateable capability and the columns was in edit mode with tabsequence > 0 In PB 2022 the...
Assume you have 6 different methods acting on a datawindow or multiple datawindows on a userobject, and these methods can be called in multiple combinations, singly or in combination.They involve sorting/filtering or some other visual change that you...


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