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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.   :) ...
Hi guys I have a client who would like to know what IP address/port is needed for PB license call? Thanks in advance David...
Hi all, I created a global datastore to retrieve SMTP email settings... when I retrieve the datastore, the retrieve function returns -1.  I know there is 1 record in the database, and the record shows up in the datawindow painter.  Here's the code ...
Hello Everybody, We are migrating our app from a client-server app to a 3-tier api enabled one.   We want to avoid scaffolding all of our thousands of datawindows. So we are looking to create an api call with a dynamic approach. What we have done ...
Hi team, Good day! Is there any method to compare pbl's, windows, datawindows, userobjects in runtime. Need to do this dynamically while running the application. Please let me know how we can implement this in pb.   Thanks and regards Rajkumar ...
Hi Guys W have a client that has made a major upgrade to the UI including adding Themes. They deploy their application in a terminal services environment. Apparently the application is using twice the amount of ram per user than it did before and un...
Hi All We have converted a clients appliaction to use the new SMTPClient to send emails. They work fine on our environment but in their network the email is being wrapped within another email. This is the explanation we got from their IT. I believe...
We are experiencing an issue with Orca220 that has arisen since the upgrade from PB 2022 R1 to PB 2022 R2. On our server, we uninstalled the old utilities and installed the new ones with version 22.1.0.2828. Afterwards, we rebooted the system but oth...
Just sharing a few concerns about the bleak future of PowerBuilder here and what could be done about it... We all know PowerBuilder apps work like a rock - surviving major O/S upgrades (even without any PB upgrades) - and can last 20 years, 50 years...
Hi     Using Powewrbuilder 2021 Build 1509 i imported a snapdevelop wrapper dll into my app and it worked fine. Until i get a new machine. I can run the app with the old dlls and the app works fine gets into the dll and do its job on debug   but ...
PB 2022 I have a multi-threaded app (using SharedObject functions) that is non-visual, it receives requests via Winsock and creates a background thread to process the request. I'm getting hang-ups when it gets a lot of requests all at once. I suspe...
How to calculate the 'Present Value' in Powerbuilder given the rate, monthly payment amount and the number of months? The Excel formula would be PV(). Example in Excel: Rate = 10% Monthly payment = $2,500 Number of months = 48 payment due at th...
We added OCX and DLL files to our cloud application. They must be registered before the first launch of the application. The process works but we now have this prompt every time we launch the application: It looks like the cloud app is registering t...
Hi Gurus, While try to invoke Powerserver cloud url , am getting the following error :- ---------------------------PowerBuilder application execution error (R0221)---------------------------Application terminated. Error: Session creation failed.Ca...
Not complaining, just joining effort to make PB a better product...Background: New Windows11 box, no development software installed. Then installed: SQL Anywhere 12 64bit, SQL Anywhere Studio 9 32bit, PB installer, PB 2022 R2 (all options), SQL Anywh...
2019 R2 Build 2353 running on Win10   Got a compile problem: Have a few TreeViews in different windows that won't work after compiling. They work in the dev environment, just not in the compiled version.  I've tried regenerating all my objects; r...
We have migrated Powerbuilder code from 32 bit to 64 bit and currently we using Appeon version 2019 R3 but we are facing issue when we are trying to run code through debugger and same issue persist in 2022 latest version of Appeon . Can you advice w...
Update: Bug is fixed with PB 2022 R2. pbx 64bit works fine again.   Hi, We have been using Bruce Armstrong's version of the PBNI SMTP module for a number of years and have just started migrating from PB 2021 to PB 2022 (1900). The 32 bit version ...
Hi,   I have a problem with application deployed through PowerServer. Following SQL statement works fine when used in IDE enterface :  INSERT INTO rule_history Select *, :Allocation_id from rulesWHERE ( rules.rule_number = :saanto ) AND ( rules.d...
Looking for advice regarding the PB.INI setting UseHwnd. I've seen multiple comments indicating when this is set to No, (UseHwnd=0) it can provide significant performance gains.  For anybody using this setting can you tell me where exactly you see ...
We are using PB 2022 R2 2828 and have noticed that all our line graphs are now equipped with data (bullet) points, as the Modern graphs are being used. Release notes state: The default hollow box symbolvalue for line charts has been replaced with a ...


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