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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...
Hi PB users, Some client start to speak about Modern authentication with Microsoft Office. Originally, the cutoff date for Basic Authentication was supposed to be October 2020. However, due to COVID-19, Microsoft has decided to push back this date u...
There's some good articles on using GIT with PB2017 R2, but I haven't been able to find anything specific for PB2019.  PB2017 R2 required using the PBG file and storing the PBLs.  My understanding is that we no longer need the PBG file and no longer ...
Hello All, I want to create a DICOM image viewer in PowerBuilder . Could you please advise how to do that ?  Is it possible without using any external SDK/API ? I have found out few SDK like  LEADTOOLS PACS imaging SDK but this one is very costly. ...
A manually added resize event with event id 'pgm_size' on a Custom Visual object behaviors differently on a window between Powerbuilder 12 and Appoen Powerbuilder 2019R2 beta: In Powerbuilder 2019R2 Beta: This resize event is triggered even before c...
  Hello, friends: We have powerserver 2020, and thre web applications in production. The apps run fine, but some users decided to Change scaling settings (Text size, app, and other items) to 125%, 150%, since laptops were given. As a result, all ...
Hi, Recently i have migrated PB 8 to 19 version. In code im getting symbols while converting blob to string.So i have converted to encodingANSI! format in many places.. it is working fine.but in one place im struggling. please help me. //sItemDIN =...
Buenas Noches  Recientemente estamos trabajando con base de datos en MYSQL y hemos migrado nuestra aplicación a la WEB pero muestra el siguiente mensaje de error, cuando lo probamos en el IDE de PB  con ODBC no tenemos problemas. FUENTE DE DATOS AE...
We have recently changed our datawindow savas methods to XLSX! from Excel8! This works fine except for one report. It is an external datawindow and when we save it as XLSX! it then throws an error: We are looking for an answer and haven't been able...
So I have a C# dll I am already calling from PowerBuilder by compiling it as an Active/X control. Most calls return a class containing a number of variables and the PowerBuilder .Net Dll Importer can't handle these, ignoring them completely. So this...
I am trying to streamline our build process and in particular preventing as much as possible full rebuilds. In our CI we use pbc190 compiler to compile from source code. What I observe is that even when I use the /i flag instead of /f, thus expecting...
Hi there Is there any more information available on using the .net importer tool, any example work throughs or anything like that= showing from start to finish importing and using would be awesome Has anyone successfully used it and got an example ...
Hi,  I think i am missing something quite simple here so hopefully someone will be able help. What is the best approach to handling the transaction time out on powerserver web I have an application that works perfectly, but if the user enters all ...
I've got a logo of my local government organization from www.cab.lt and I want to use in a datawindow print form, however when I try to export it using NativePDF image gets all pixelated and I can not find a way keep the quality.  Initial image: ...
We are seeing intermittent issues with PB 2019 R2 where the Enter key in the datawindow stops working.  Normally hitting Enter will change row for user, but in this example it triggers LoseFocus instead of RowFocusChanging event.  It is intermittent ...
Hi  This William Yau from Hong Kong, I would like ask where I can buy powerbuilder 2019 book. I cannot find any powerbuilder 2019 book on Amazon site.    best regards   William    ...
Good Morning!I have a local machine with a thermal printer (Dieboold), printing normally when I am locally, but when the user using the system via TS on a Windows Server 2016, it gives a printing error (communication error).Could you help me solve th...
I'm running Powerbuilder 2017 R3 build 1880.  I can open Powerbuilder the standard way, by clicking the icon.  But if I go to Windows Explorer and double-click a PBW, PB starts to open but then gives an error "Attempt to open DataWindow failed."  I a...
Hi, How do I Center the title text of a main window ? It seems that the title text is always justified left.   I'm using PB2019 R2 /Windows 10   Thanks  Steen :-)  ...
Hi, I think the Appeon PowerBuilder installer is great, and I would like to use it for my own applications. What installer tool are you using ?   Tanks //Steen  ...
Hi, We have developed a SnapDevelop WebApI using 2019 R2. When I deploy it to IIS in this case on the same machine (windows 10) where we developed it, I get the error below while accessing it:     We have made sure all permissions are availab...


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