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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 guys,   We have an inputscreen with about 100 inputfields. My goal is to have a database driven tooltip functionality. I can create a global function that has inputarguments for example : the column name and the language of the user How can i...
I'm in the process of mocking up a tool style window that will allow me to place grippers on the window depending on where the window is located within the MDI frame. I need to be able to click on this area/gripper. I added a mouse down (pbm_lbutton...
Hi, I have a problem when saving DW content in PDF format using Distill! mode . Windows 11 PowerBuilder 2019 R2 Ghostscript 9.19 , 9.27 or 9.56 (I tried with all versions...) with any version of ghostscript the created PDF is empty.Using Win10 t...
We are still on PowerBuilder 2019R3 and PowerServer 2020 and our application was working fine.   We normally use kernel32.dll to access some windows functions.   Some of our users upgraded with the latest Windows 11 24H2 version and the application s...
I have a 3rd party DLL that I am told is a .NET DLL . I want to use the .NET DLL Importer to access it. I get the following error message: "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, ...' How do I get around this? I am using PowerBuilder ...
PB 2022 Wondering if anyone has used 'Microsoft Print to PDF' as the DataWindow.Print.Printername while also specifying the DataWindow.Print.Filename in order to save PDF documents automatically so the SaveAs popup does not show. I am trying to find...
Hi, I have a .NET web service built with PB 2017 R3 that fails to connect to an ASE 16 database. Web server: Windows Server 2019 / IIS 10 / ASE 15.7 DB client DB server: ASE 16 Webserver is set up with:- PB 2017 R3 runtime files (32 and 64 bit) a...
Good Day! I am testing 25.0.0.3398. I am using the DisplayMenuAsRibbonBar and, overall, things are working. I did notice, however, that if I assign the menu item's ButtonImage to a custom image without the full path specified, the image does not app...
Hi   We are attempting to connect to MSOLEDBSQL using an Access Token, but it is failing. We need some advice on this issue. We have tried the following setups: PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356 PowerBuilder 2025 Build 3398   We successfully...
I am developing an application using PowerBuilder 2021 that utilizes third-party ActiveX components. Since I have multiple applications that require different versions of these ActiveX controls, I prefer to avoid registering them globally to prevent ...
Hi, We currently use some ActiveX controls in Powerbuilder. To be able to use the ActiveX controls without registering them at runtime, we decided to add manifest entries for the corresponding DLL files. The DLLs are deployed by us relative to the E...
hi, is there any dependency between the pbwsclient and the tls protocol version? is tls1.2 supported ?  ...
Hi, I have a Themes JSON question. We have a modified JSON with drawing:false for dwo-column, because we need to have different borders for various columns. So far so good. But it has consequences like ignoring all the nested nodes of the JSON for...
Hi! I'm running PB 2022 R3 Build 3391 with MS SQL Server databases. We just moved from R2 to R3 recently. I've got a datawindow with an Identity Column specified in the update properties: I call dw.Update() in code and then (since 2017 at least) ...
Hello, After migration to PB 2022 R3 Build 3391 there is an issue with XLS files generated.When I mark few columns/rows, it looks like copy / paste isn't working. Choosing specific cell, and copying this cell only - works, but larger range not c...
We are evaluating the possibility of using the cloud app launcher for Power Client projects in PB 2022 R3. We have a specific situation that we are unsure how to resolve. In our APP, we have a customized PBL library for each client where we design d...
I am using PB 2022 R3 and Powerserver.  I would like to access my app that is on my cloud via my mobile application, which is an android app.  I can get to the launch page, download the installer but it blows up after that.  Can someon...
Recently, our PowerServer Application seems to be getting transaction timeout errors.  Once you get one of these errors, connection to the database is totally lost.  Not sure what changed in our Azure environment that could have cause this.  Does any...
I am creating a DataWindow type FreeFrom using the instruction SystaxFromSQL, here the instructions: ls_dw = Sqlca.SyntaxFromSQL(ls_query,"Style(Type=Form)",ls_err) if Len(ls_err) > 0 then MessageBox("Error Syntax", ls_err, StopSign!) Return...
Since migrating from PowerBuilder 2019 R2 to 2022 R3, we've had an influx of user complaints where they get "JPEG Processing Error: Insufficient Memory (case 4)" popups and windows error logs stating that faults occurred in VCRUNTIME140.dll and ucrtb...


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