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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
Just wondering why the X and Y Position of a maximized Frame would be a negative number (ie. -37 and -32) instead of it being zero?  Since I am saving the position of the frame in order to restore it I want to make sure that I am not missing anything...
Hello, When porting an SOAP pb.net to .Net Datastore and because the SOAP has WSDL, the calling /consuming will be different. Soap pb.net is xml based with http post and content-type can be text/xml or application/soap+xml.  How would I keep the c...
Hi Powerbuilder Community, I am working on upgrading a powerbuilder application, and it crashed during startup in the applications citrix server environment. Environment: PowerBuilder 2021 (either build 1288, or 1311). Windows Server 2016 Datac...
Hi, I've decided to share a little tool that I made somewhere in the 90'ies in PB5, now migrated to 2021 latest build: I can make older versions if anyone would like. I've added a PB2019 R3 version (29th Jan. 22) It's useful for finding stuff in a ...
HI how can get the column name (text) in DW crosstab and how can get de value when I make a click in dw crosstab   thanks   Luis...
Hello,I'm in dire need of help.A grid dwo has PFC sort service enabled.As the user expands a grid column, the pfc_sort service triggers and changes sort statement to the column clicked.The user is not happy. I've tried to catch the pointer (Cross!) ...
Good morning Appeon community, I am wondering, is there a native tool to visualize (end perhaps interact) with PDF files? In our current PB applications we are using a third party activeX but we would gladly move away from it. I tried also the axAc...
I know about the following format keywords, are there any others? [date] [longdate] [time] [general]  ...
Hi, I have a powerbuilder executable that closes unexpectedly on the instruction: dw_1.dataObject = ls_dataobject where ls_dataObject is not null and de dw_1 is valid. This happens on some computers not all with the same executable.Any idea?Thank y...
Hi everyone. Hope someone could help me with this issue: In AEM, I have configured a connection (Data Source) to an IBM DB2 database via ODBC and the connection test is successful. When I assign this Data Source to a transaction in my application, ...
Hi I have a desktop application developed in PB2017 R3. It is connecting to the MS SQL database thru ODBC with connection string as below: SQLCA.DBMS = "ODBC" SQLCA.AutoCommit = TrueSQLCA.DBParm = "ConnectString='DSN=dsn_name;UID=xyz;PWD=abc',Commi...
We have a client that made a simple change to a datawindow. They changed a column in the select from CAST(col1 AS CHAR(10)) to TO_CHAR(col1). They then used the C# Conversion tool in SnapDevelop 2021 to import this change into the API which was succe...
Hi all, Error: #31890. Since for like a week or so, I cannot read any email notifications from this community on my android mobile office 365, nor on my Ipad. I see the email listed in the inbox, but when trying to see the contents, nothing is load...
We converted an application from version 8 to Powerbuilder 2021 and the following code is not functioning properly.. The code actually works fine when I run it locally using the PowerBuilder 20221 IDE, but when I build the .exe it is giving us a -3 ...
I have an application that was upgraded successfully to PB 2019. Our application ran well with the PB 2019 run time files on users' computers.  We upgraded to PB 2021 build 1311 successfully. I deployed 12 applications successfully and tested the exe...
I am super new to powerbuilder and I'm seeing "Run an RHMB on it" in some of the solutions to an error like the one below:   Referenced object object is out of date, must be converted....
Hi We have deployed a Cloud App and running PowerServer 2021. We don't seem to be able to save a DW that contains nested DWs to PDF using the SaveAs function. It doesn't error and there is no file created. We used to be able to do this in Appeon Se...
Not too long ago Appeon has updated the documentation / help to now state correctly that the Handle() function returns a Longptr value. I see a lot of use of the function in the PFCs. We use Ulong for window handles (while the type of a handles and ...
Using PB 2019 R2 and trying to edit function object results in entire IDE crashing.  Can "edit source" (not in painter) of any function object and source looks perfectly normal, but cannot open function in painter. Believe all other painters work,...
Hi. We've recently migrated large app from PB 12.5 to PB 2021. It consist of more then a hundred of pbls, placed in 7 folders. From PB IDE, Build and Deploy works fine - makes needed pbds beside pbls and exe file. Now we need to atomate build process...


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