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Has anyone else experienced an issue launching the client application from Edge or Chrome recently ? For us, it has stopped working from Edge and Chrome, but still works from Firefox. We did notice Edge was patched in the last few days but the link...
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.   :) ...
Hi Experts, I am currently using WizSource as my source control system. When one user adds new objects, such as windows or data windows, to WizSource, how can another user be notified of these additions? Additionally, how can the second user import ...
We have a very large PB 2022 application that uses an old version of PFC running on Windows 11. The pfc_print event on the base DataWindow control calls this.Print(True, True). Some reports have 'PowerBuilder - Print' as the title of the system win...
Hi all, I keep getting an error message when trying to modify the document name on a datawindow.  Here's the code: dw_1.Retrieve(il_workorder) is_CertName = "Cert" + string(il_workorder) ls_modify = "Print.DocumentName=" + is_CertName ls_return ...
Hi all, My customer complained that when they merge documents to pdf, the logo on the pdf cert has a grey background color, it should be white.  My merge algorithm uses PDFDocument object. Attached are images of the logo file that's in the document...
Good morning,We are using: Oracle SQL Developer Version 23.1.1.345 Build 345.2114, PowerBuilder 2021 Build 1509Database: Oracle 19c (soon to be 21c)Will be migrating to PowerBuilder 2022 soon as wellOur agency has decided to convert to Multi-Factor A...
Hello:We are in the process of upgrading from PB 2022 R3 3289 to 3397, and I've encountered something strange.  Our custom objects used on buttons and things are not showing in the executable when built from PBAutoBuild220.exe.  But do if a manual bu...
Hello All,We have converted all our SOAP web service calls using EasySoap to use HttpClient object. The issue we have is when the response return code is something other than 200 meaning unsuccessful response.For example, we get 500 for the response...

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We came across the attached error while testing application built using PS 2022 R3. The QA person waited for 10 mins and this error didn't come up again. When does this error occur and is there a configuration that needs to be set so it does not exce...
Hi All, I am using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356 and MS SQL Server 2019 with the collation set to Latin1_General_100_CI_AI_SC_UTF8. In a DataWindow, I have a column of type string with a length of 375. I have limited the users to type up to 375 c...
Hi We face an issue related to ADO database connection and are seeking help resolving it. PowerBuilder: 2022 R3 Build 3391 Visual Studio: 2022 DBMS: Microsoft Azure   In short, the issue is that any SQL command fails with SQLCode -1 and no SQL ...
Hi, in PB2025 Beta2,  we cannot modify the background color of the DataWindow Detail band via script or with the expression in the properties dialog when theme applied. The modify command has no effect. We can change the color in the json theme file ...
We have a PB 2017 app accessing a SQLANywhere Database which has the character set for CHAR types as windows-1252 (its an old app) but NCHARS are UTF8.  The issue is the SQL ANywhere SQL processor automatically converts the SQL syntax to the CHAR for...
Dear Appeon support I've already sent you the most critical points that we noticed in PB 2025.There are also some less important suggestions regarding the IDE, I'd like to share with you. Ctrl+Click instead of Rightclick->JumpIn other IDEs, you ...
Hi we managed to create a DLL (or better a set of DLLs) for 32 bit PowerBuilder applications that can interact with Outlook 32 bit and Outlook 64 bit as well. The DLL called from a 32 bit application tries to initialize 32 bit MAPI. If it doesn't su...
Hi,   I watched the great presentation of John Stano: https://www.appeon.com/conference/elevate-2024/live?id=418. Is it possible to download the sample code presented on this webinar?   Regards, Pawel...
Hi, I hope you can help us with a perplexing issue we are seeing. No known cause has been found yet. We are experiencing intermittent errors when getting OAuth access token in RESTClient - it works most of the time but fails for a few users dailye.g...
I have a question about the SQLPreview Event of DataWindow When you want to skip your current query based on a specific condition, for example, if I want to skip a DELETE query from being sent to the database, I can return 2 from this event, and it ...
Hello, We have a windows11 station with PB2022 R3.The station is an image that resets every log off.The user profile is roaming profile saved remotely in the network(not local).Every new log in we need to activate the PB manual time after time and t...
We currently use different old Active X controls to view different items (Word Docs, TIFF images, PDFs and XML). Unfortunately, these are old 32-bit components and are starting to throw errors randomly or freezing for 2 minutes and then coming back. ...


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