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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.   :) ...
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...
I have been tasked with adding a watermark to printed documents.  Before printing, I copy the dataobject into a local datastore, copy the data (RowsCopy), add the watermark to the background (Modify("CREATE...")), and then make the background for ea...
 Hi guys,   using pb 2019 R3 , we suddenly don't receive any "powerbuilder application errors" anymore when we are running our exe from within the IDE. instead our exe just sits there and does nothing. i guess i have adjusted unintentionally a se...
Hello, We have a solution developed with PB21 where it uses AccessibleName property (by singlelineedit, commandbottom objects.. not in Dw) Available in MSAA and UI Automation Mode. Using the "Narrator" (an external app) our application in PB21 descri...
We have a customer running our PB 2017 app in a Citrix Environment. They experience random crashes when generating a document for preview. By adding writes into the code to a log table on their system, we have been able to determine exactly where the...
Hi Team,   I enabled buil-in jwt authentication for powerserver application with database user list, I am able to get the access token, however i am unable to start application i mean beginsession is failing , i enabled the application object addit...
Hello, Using PowerBuilder 2021 build 1288 against the PBDemoDB2021 SQLAnywhere 17 (32-bit) database, (examples table) we can demonstrate that a datawindow with just 2 columns (example_id integer and technique long varchar) where we have set the Upda...
Hello, I've stumbled upon this phenomenon while writing tests with PBUnit. For illustration purposes, I isolated it as follows. Create two global functions: global function integer f_set_string (integer ai_in, ref string as_out); if ai_in = 1 the...
Hi,  Any plan to bring the perpetual license facility for powerbuilder ?...
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, 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...
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...
Introduction We are facing a PowerBuilder termination in some rare situations and only on a limited set of Windows installations. We do not have full details of the case, so we hope someone has a similar experience that might resolve our issue. Pow...
Hi Team,   In order for Infor to comply with the European Union NIS2 directive, we have been asked to request Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for all of our 3rd Party Products and Appeon’s PowerBuilder is one of those products.  Would you provide...
I have done migration from 2019 R3 to 2022 R3.In our application we have used certain RTE controls which has been inherited from pfc windows like w_rte_detail and w_rte_detail_text,when i try to  launch the application and navigated to windows which ...
hi Guru, I'm trying to OAUTH 2.0 example but it do not work as per expected. The same parameter work will with PostMan V10. Please help whether something wrong or bug : Noted: Using Powerbuilder 2022 R2 Runtime 2828.      ...
Hello, I'm using PowerBuilder 2022 build 1892. I generate a PDF using the code below : PDFDocument lpdf_doc long ll_return, ll_return1 lpdf_doc = Create PDFDocument dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Export.PDF.Method = NativePDF! ") dw_1.modify("Dat...
Hello, I have a DW with GROUP . There is 4 rows in trailer group section of DW (originally there is 5 rows). GetRow() - always returns 1 row parameter in click() or DoubleClick() event - returns 1 1. How do I get the number of the specific row th...
Does powerbuilder2022 support exporting PDF to TXT file, or is there an improvement plan in the future?...
Can anybody suggest a solution to apply c14n11 canonical algorithm in a xml file....


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