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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 9 months ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get to existing extern function definitions (or add them)
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 16 hours ago
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Ok. I've inherited a project and probably don't know some basics. Like this one. We have some modules that have some external functions, such as: function boolean GetUserNameA(ref string lpBuffer, ref ulong nSize) library "ADVAPI32.DLL" T...
  1.  External Functions
  2.  PowerBuilder
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
Host Variables may not be used within a batch [SQL Anywhere 12]
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 17 hours ago
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Hello, I am trying to create a simple CRUD API for a sample table in my database. When I test with Swagger UI, the Retrieve is successful, however the Create call is sent successfully but the transaction is rolled back with the error "ERROR [HY000] ...
  1.  Batch
  2.  C#
  3.  Error
  4.  ODBC
  5.  REST
  6.  SQL
  7.  SQL Anywhere
  8.  SnapDevelop
  9.  .NET DataStore
  10.  Web API
Joseph Campanelli Joseph Campanelli
  1. SnapDevelop
Why Am I getting this error and how can I fix it? Invalid~Hex character sequence in string
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 18 hours ago
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Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
  1. PowerBuilder
UI Enhancements help - PB 2025 Beta
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hi all, we are desperately need the UI enhancements because the application (started from PB 7 and now running on PB 2017) looks old and customers are starting to complain heavily. I got super excited when I saw than on January beta there was an ea...
Panos Platanas Panos Platanas
  1. Beta Testing
Dropdown Target framework in Powerserver
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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We are currently working with PB2022R3. I installed PB2025B with .net8 to test it. When running from PB2023R3, in the PowerServer project, the Target Framework dropdown (in build) shows .net8, which is not compatible with PB2022R3 (if I'm not mistake...
damian jimenez damian jimenez
  1. PowerServer
PB 2025 Beta4: PBAutobuild error
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hi, I'm currently testing pbautobuild from 2025 beta4. I can build my application without error with the IDE, but when using pbautobuild, "pbautobuild250.exe" /f ./compile_sur_d.json /l compile.log /le error.log", with the same project exported as j...
Pascal Leblanc Pascal Leblanc
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relazione tra memoria e velocità di esecuzione
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Ciao a tutti Da un po' di tempo riscontriamo una certa lentezza sul nostro applicativo. Noi notiamo che all'aumento della memoria spesso corrisponde un degrado significativo dei tempi di esecuzione. Il nostro studio su un campione significativo di...
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
PS 2020 crashing on certain Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  VINOD NAIR replied 1 day ago
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We have a PS 2020 application running in production and lately some of our client machines got upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 and 22H2 and the application stopped working. We use IWARunner to launch the applications and it starts giving all kind of erro...
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
problems running PBNISMTP in powerbuilder 2022 R3 on Runtime 22.2.0.3356
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 1 day ago
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Good morning everyone, I am facing the following problem: In my powerbuilder application I use the PBNISMTP object and everything had been going great until I updated to powerbuilder 2022 R3 with runtime 22.2.0.3356 Now I get the error that there i...
José Luis Torres José Luis Torres
  1. PowerBuilder
Problem with VScrollbar and tabs
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Paweł Kasperek replied 2 days ago
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Hi, I have got the window with Datawindow. I set tab order on DW. I set DW parent instance to the following properties: HScrollBar = true VScrollBar = true LiveScroll = true My problem is that when using the Tab key to move to the last ele...
Paweł Kasperek Paweł Kasperek
  1. PowerBuilder
How-to: enable select/copy-to-clipboard in MessageBox() ?
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 2 days ago
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Is there any way to enable select/copy-to-clipboard in the MessageBox() ?
  1.  MessageBox
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerScript (PS)
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
parsing tokens from a string using more than one delimiter
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 days ago
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I want to parse a string based on whitespace. This can be either spaces or tabs.Pos() seems to be able to match only one at a time. Match() will allow a regex, allowing a search for either ... but only returns true/false and not the position. Is ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
EV code signing certificates
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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Will there be EV code signing certificates introduced with the v2025? There are security systems which block apps dependent on DLLs with an expired cert. The enhancement for this is in the Appeon's enhancement management system (https://www.appeon.co...
Marian Jurecka Marian Jurecka
  1. Beta Testing
DisplayMenuAsRibbonBar : empty panel due to setting all menu-items in it invisible
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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Hello I'm testing the new feature DisplayMenuAsRibbonBar in PB2025 Build 3503. When a user logs in, menu-items becomes invisible due to the rights he gets from the administrator. For some panels, all menu-items of this panel are set invisible. The ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  RibbonBar
Sylvie Bouttelisier Sylvie Bouttelisier
  1. Beta Testing
How to store pdf in database
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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Good day, I just want to ask about pdfdocument. I am developing a document storing system... How can I upload and retrieve pdf file in to the database specifically MSSQL... Gladly to here your answer. thank you in advance....
Winthor Caingles Winthor Caingles
  1. PowerBuilder
Connect to ms sql server with nt credentials -- no logon dialog
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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We are connecting to an MS SQL Server database. We are using "NT Validation" ... which means that our system login credentials are used transparently to gain access to the db -- there is no need to ask for a login id or password.The code I have inhe...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  SQL Server
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
Webview2 runtime error
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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I am using PB 2022 R3 build 3397. I am getting the following error message when I try to use the web browser control to download a pdf file from a report server: "Webview2 runtime not installed" We are testing the installation of an application on d...
Raymond Longoria Raymond Longoria
  1. PowerBuilder
cloudlauncher colon issue
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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Hi since Chromium 130 (which includes MS Edge) colon in custom protocol URL is not allowed anymore. Is there a workaround how to run PowerClient from the webpage? Example: cloudlauncher://http://server/app/ is interpretted and forwarded to the ...
Tomas Beran Tomas Beran
  1. PowerBuilder
Print pdf files silently
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 days ago
2 replies
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Hi Appeon,We are on powerBuillder 2022 R3 Build 3397. We have an requirement to print multiple pdf files one by one and there should no user interruption, we are planning to use web browser control to load the pdf file and print it from there using w...
Subbiya Vasumoorthy Subbiya Vasumoorthy
  1. PowerBuilder
How to insert a page break, in group report, if whole group doesn't fit in one page
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 days ago
2 replies
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Hello, Using PB 2022 b 3356 1. It's a group report.2. No page break on Group Break3. Sometimes group data spans more than one page I want to insert a page break ( or any option ? ), when the group data spans more than one page, so that that group ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder

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