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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.   :) ...
Hello Appeon,  Our PowerBuilder Version is: 22.1.0.2828 Numbers are sorted based on an alphabetical value, instead of numerical value, like one would expect from a natural sort, where multiple digits are treated as one character.  I.e.:  Natural so...
My Powerbuilder 2022 build 3289 started crashing unexpectedly yesterday afternoon (3/19/2024). I am unable to open any datawindows that I had built successfully that morning. The IDE just hangs. I tried clearing the registry setting for HKEY_CURRENT_...
User have the option in Microsoft Outlook to click on the text in the upper right of their outlook "Try the New Outlook".  When they click that it closes older outlook and opens outlook in a newer look and feel.   This breaks the Powerbuilder code b...
Web browser object provided in PowerBuilderI am using it.The page to which you go when you call the web page and then click the buttonI want to get a url, but when implementing it using the existing OLE method, I used the Geturl function.Is there any...
I found a bug in PowerBuilder (specifically filtering a large number of rows in a datawindowchild) that will eat up memory and eventually crash PowerBuilder. How do I report it? I have a sample app that shows how filtering increases memory usage by h...
  Can you tell me what causes "myapp.offline.download.finished" to be created? PowerClient Deployment Version change 1.01 to 1.02 Minimum compatible version change 1.01 to 1.02   Advanced setting is down image The user cannot update t...
Hi All!  It's been a few months since my last question... things are going good!  I really like PB2022 R3... Thank you Appeon. I have a window object with a dw and a tab object. The tab object (ufolder_lab) is inherited from utab_folder, which is in...
Good day,   for the past 2 months my application is working perfectly using the powerclient deployment. However, this past few days windows defender delete and block the application... what do I need to configure ? any suggestion.    It would be ...
Hi team, Is there any option to minimize the "update cloud app files" pop up screen while opening the powerclient application. Please advise... I'm attaching the pop up screen for your reference.. Thanks Rajkumar ...
PowerBuilder 2022 GA 1892, SQL Server Our web application is written in C# and to run reports, we link out to a non-visual PowerBuilder app that returns NativePDF blobs for presentation in the browser. We want to be able to run the web application ...
PS 2022R2 I'm 99% sure i had a transaction timeout.  I was not able to see it in the event viewer/log however.  Is it logged?  I would expect it to log when a database transaction is killed due to timeout regardless of the log leve.   The time out...
QUESTION:  With the recent PowerBuilder 2022 R2 update of ADO.NET, is PowerBuilder now enforcing rules that were not previously enforced?   What is described below WAS NOT a problem with PowerBuilder 2022 R1...but with the release of PowerBuilder 2...
Hi,   I am digesting how to make web api run on linux. Referring to this link https://docs.appeon.com/ps2022r2/Running_Web_APIs_with_Kestrel.html I understand that, 1) Copy all files from net6.0 folder to linux server 2) Run this  ServerAPIs.exe ...
Hi, I have an incidence, I have a datawindow that in the resize event I modify the width of some rectangles to make them the size of the dw (I use them as header and I want them to be always seen the full size of the window), when the window is enla...
Hello, I am using PB2022 R3 and have a datawindow with a stored procedure as the source. When I do a retrieve on the datawindow it crashes PowerBuilder. The call to the stored procedure is:   EXECUTE ESS9982 3158069, "2020-01-01" , "@", 0 , "@" , ...
Hi,   I was trying to migrate the application from 2019R2 build 2353 to 2019R3 with build 2803. When I was adding the target then existing pbl are not getting migrated without pbwsclient.pbd. and If I remove the pbwsclient.pbd from the library th...
I am pretty sure I saw somewhere in the documentation a list of features that we shouldn't use in background threads. Now I can't find it. I have a multi-threaded C++ app that calls PB code using PBNI. For some reason if it is processing more than o...
Hi,   Since 2021,our organization has been using Power Builder 2021. As we are transition to new machine, we are not able to install PowerBuilder 2021. With bootstrap process, we don't have option to select Power builder 2021 version to download a...
Dear everyone,    I am having an issue creating a IQ db connection from our application. I do not wish to use ODBC connection (I tried it's working fine).  On my computer and user computer SAP IQ Client Suite 16.0 sp08 (64-bits) is installed. My P...
Hi, We have a few large reports in our application. I am looking to include paging so the data in these reports is retrieved on-demand. Would  Retrieve.AsNeeded would be a solution for this? (Correct me if I am wrong). Looking at the documentation ...


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