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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, i have a simple app deployed to PS2021 using my developer license and deployed to a windows 2016 server machine. Everything worked fine until few hours ago, when accessing the app i get "Session creation failed. Cause: Server has been shutdow...
Dear Support Team, I have created Power Builder application which generates the Exe as an output. In my project I have added .Net dll which have the functions and that I am calling in Power Builder application. Everything working fine in my developm...
Powerserver licenses sites are down can not access to apps on  many live clients...
Hi we are on Pb2021 connecting to SQLServer 2019 by new Microsoft OleDB Driver. In past we also used SNC, sql server native connect. We need to store  unicode characters like Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż Our db column datatypes are nvarchar for sql ...
PowerBuilder 2019 R3 2728 How can you prevent a window from Minimizing? I was hoping to trap it in Resize with a return code but that does not work. Chris Craft...
This error began to appear first thing Tuesday Morning (3/29), and generates this: ...
I recently installed PowerBuilder 2021 (Professional Edition) on a Windows 10 virtual machine that I use as my main development machine. I was in the process of migrating our PowerBuilder applications but my priorities have shifted and I need to put ...
 Hi,      we are currently using PB 2019 R3 2728 for our DEV/PROD and deployed the app with the name as APP_DEV using PowerClient CAL (19.2.0.2728 runtime)  in a webserver and it is working fine for dev.  Create an another instance in the same webse...
Hi, PB2019R3 We're using the WebBrowser Control to display PDF in our app. It works fine but it seems to be an issue when the PDF filename contains the # character It seems that in Chrome the # is replaced by %23   is there a workaround to ...
Hi, How to encrypt (TLS 1.1 or 1.2) Database connection from PowerBuilder application? PB Version: 2017R3 SQL Client: SQL Native Client (sqlncli11) DB Server : MS SQL SERVER 2016 If it is not supported in PB2017, Please let me know whether is it...
Hi Team, We are trying to use Github for our project to maintain powerbuilder source code.  A repository (a separate folder) has been created for our project inside github. People who are part of the project can only be accessible to that repository...
I am using PB2019R3 consuming with an API that returns a PDF in Blob. I use HttpClient supports Blob response, checking the size of the file I use Len and it is correct. My problem is how to convert or decode the Blob to PDF to save on local mach...
Hi all, I'm upgrading to PB 2021 and the latest version of PFC.  Trying to upgrade some of my application windows, object, etc. to make better use of the PFC.  Does anyone know what the difference is between pfc_w_master and pfc_w_sheet? Thank you,...
Hello, We have recently upgraded our powerbuilder app to PB2019 and upgraded out PFC libraries to PFC2019. One change in the PFC libraries is hindering our ability to print when using File\Print from the menu bar. With the upgrade to PFC2019 the pfc...
Hi. We're currently developing a service for fetching realtime currency from a online broker. The result is a JSON, like this: [ { "symbol": "USD/NOK", "timestamp": "2022-03-22T06:58:35.690285Z", "rate": 1.566015 }, { "symbol": "SEK/NOK", "timesta...
Hi all I came across a script at work and am a bit confused by how the data type of Decimal works. Here is what I understand - If a variable, say ldec_test, is declared as Decimal (7, 2), it would have a value like 12345.67 (for example).  Is that...
what is the timeout setting of the http client?  and is it different for powerbuilder vs powerserver (2020)? windows api has 4 timeout setttings: BOOL WinHttpSetTimeouts( int nResolveTimeout, int nConnectTimeout,  int nSendTimeout, int nReceiveTime...
Hi All, All on a sudden my powerbuilder became very slow for development. Since yesterday it worked fine on my same workstation. I am using powebuilder 2017 R3 build #1858 on windows 10. The CPU usage is more than 35% and I have to wait for a long t...
I hope someone can help I need to store the return from my GET statement into a database table This is the format of the return, what method would you recommend. I am currently using 2019 but can easily move to 2021 if the new features help. regar...
Hi Friends, I'm migrating to PB 2021, and the most recent PFC.  My old PFC files are over 20 years old!  We have several windows that use something like "home made" split bar in conjunction with the linking service.  We had written code to do our ow...


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