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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 10 months ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Drag/Drop doesn't work for 64-bit app
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- How-to
- Last updated 18 hours ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 8 hours ago
Hi all,
I have a couple of windows with a datawindow that is supposed to respond to the pbm_dropfiles event.
I have defined a global external function:
FUNCTION int DragQueryFileW (long hDrop, int iFile, ref string szFileName, int cb) LIBRARY "she...
Hi, we are currently using PDFLib to merge PDFs and stamp information together with our product developed in PowerBuilder. We have heard from Apryse that PDFlib has reached EOL. Have you heard anything about this, and what impact will it have on Nati...
Word-wrap in ribbon bar menu text
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- How-to
- Last updated 20 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 14 hours ago
Hi Team,
We are creating ribbon bar menu with small icon along with menu text. Now some menu has lengthy text, so whether we can do word wrap text . Attached 2 images, first screen done through powerbuilder and second screen given by UX team
Let ...
PBDOM_ELEMENT - How to Output NULL String as
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- How-to
- Last updated 21 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 15 hours ago
Using PBDOM...
Rather than precondition null string values as empty strings...
IF IsNull ( anv_params.their_id ) THEN
anv_params.their_id = ""
END IF
lpbdom_their_id.settext ( anv_params.their_id )
...to arrive/output at/to...
MY_ELEMENT/M...
Can we apply new (2022 R3 3397) runtime without a new build?
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- Last updated 4 days ago
- Bradley Duke replied 18 hours ago
We are currently using 2022 R3 3356, and found that the issue launching PowerServer sites from the URL is broken in Edge. We are able to launch in edge while using IE mode without issue. We see the newest version of 2022 R3 3397 has a fix for it. Sec...
Stop Theme being applied to a window and all objects on that window
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Gastón Clara replied 20 hours ago
Hi,
I'm trying to disable the theme for an specific window. I followed the intrsuctions from https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/stop-theme-being-applied-to-a-window-and-all-objects-on-that-window and also https://community.appeon.com/ind...
PowerServer deployment with .exe "license has not started error"
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 22 hours ago
Hello,
I am trying to install a PowerServer deployment with an executable. The launch page shows up fine but when I try to launch I get the following error.
This error is not mentioned on any of Appeons troubleshooting documents. All other depl...
Calling parent window's ancestor function from tabpage control datawindow?
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
Hello,
I am attempting to call a window's ancestor function from a datawindow object on a tabpage control on the same window, and having no success.
Specifically the rowFocusChanging event of the datawindow.
Is there a way to do this? Snippit be...
assigning array to empty array doesn't work
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
I have values in an array that I am not assigning to it.
I declare some arrays
INTEGER li_rowINTEGER li_indexINTEGER li_failedSTRING ls_sch_cd STRING ls_school_nameSTRING ls_to[], ls_cc[]STRING ls_school_81[], ls_school_86[] //Seval added 1...
Powerbuilder 2022 R2 will not open.
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
My powerbuilder crashed, now it won't open.
powerbuilder 2022 R2
No one responds in the chat session
Slow System-Wide Performance With Redirected Printers
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 day ago
We have a hosted server where our application runs. Users who access the app have redirected printers. The system is noticibly slower when their default printer is a redirected printer vs when it is a local printer. This occurs even when no printing ...
HyperLinkToURL (and OpenURL) in kiosk mode
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Just wondering if it is possible to open a url in the users default browser in kiosk mode using the HyperLinkToURL ( PB 2025) and OpenURL (PB 2025)?
Looking for a Certified PowerBuilder Developer Exam
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- Advice
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
Are there any official/legit certified powerbuilder developer exams out there? I did a search, but couldn't find anything recent.
Performance issue when PB2022 application is started on a VM
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
I'm using PB2022 R3. The application I built works smoothly with one strange exception:
When I click on a datawindow in a sheet within a mdi frame, the application hangs for 20 seconds up to two minutes showing "not responding". After this period th...
We are running on the PB IDE Version 2022 Build 1900 and ours is a desktop application. The backend DB is Oracle 19C. We need to implement Kerberos Authentication for single sign on, with which we should be able to establish a connection with the ora...
there's an AWS RDS version that is compatible with PowerBuilder 10.5
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
I'm currently using PowerBuilder 10.5 and considering using AWS RDS for Oracle near the Netherlands. However, it seems that AWS RDS for Oracle only supports version 19c and later (though I'm not entirely sure).
Would it be possible to use AWS RDS fo...
Powerbuilder application can't access dll folder
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 day ago
Hi all,
We have a deployed application running under PB 2022 R3 Build 3289.
In some Windows environments (Windows 11, Windows Server 2022), the application can't access the dll folder and this leads to the suspension of the application in the task ...
Updating DataWindow Expression using PowerBuilder Script
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 day ago
Hello
There is previous code (PowerBuilder 12.5) that is attempting to use Choose Case statements to update the datawindow expression of a computed field and I'm trying to figure out why it is not working.
I've found the example below but I still ...
Editing source outside of the IDE?
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- Advice
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Richard Hartman replied 2 days ago
I know you can use "edit source" ... but let's face it, the built in editor is not the best.However, when you edit source in the IDE and save, it regenerates the object. Keeping everything up to date.Can you shut down the IDE, and edit source directl...
pbvm.dll error for 64-bit application
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 2 days ago
Hi!
I have 2 versions of my software for an Ohio customer, 32-bit and 64-bit. The 32-bit version works fine. When they run the 64-bit version, they get the following error:
Load library failed! dll: pbvm.dll, runtime path:C:\Program Files\Appeon\Po...
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