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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...
Has anybody been able to connect to Postgres from a mobile app? The app works fine on Desktop and the PostgreSQL35W profile connects OK from both the ODBC admin and PowerServer`s Toolkit, but when the app is deployed to mobile, it doesn`t recognize ...
Buenas tardes a todos:     como salvo un datawindows en formato  XML estándar UBL V2.0     Gracias...
PowerBuilder classic, currently using PB 2017 SQL Server    I have a large old PowerBuilder application + satellite applications. Like many large old PowerBuilder applications it uses SQLCA for 99% of its transaction handling. It also uses stored ...
Hi all! I am trying handle a SOAP result, and the first thing I am trying to do is to remove the namespaces. I use the RemoveNamespaceDeclaration() and instead of removing both namespace and prefixes, it removes only the namespace,the prefix remains...
Hi, today I wanted to start using the new designs from PowerBuilder. I clicked on the button 'additional properties' in the application object.The themes tab, however, was just a blank white page.I've tried the same on a virtual machine and can cho...
We have a requirement to copy files from the client to file server using PB app.  When using FileCopy() I see the file ownership on the file server is of the PB app user.  We need to change the file ownership to another windows account for security r...
I am needing to implement Drag and Drop functionality with my program.  I have successfully put in the ability to drag into the app from windows explorer.  I am struggling to find a way to be able to drag files back out of the app to Windows Explorer...
We have a common PBL used by two different applications. It is compiled separately and used as a PBD by those applications, so it has no access to objects or global variables etc. in the application PBLs. I have a situation where I have a window in ...
  Good Morning We are distributing a workspace for mobile applications through an .apk and when installing the file on mobile phones, we have security restrictions that prevent us from installing. The user must manually disable the secu...
It's possible to use timing object in app without window object ?! App start schedule process and don't window and i use timer event to start process....
Salve Marco, ho un problema, devo consumare un web services SOAP con autenticazione WS-Security e PasswordText. Ho verificato che il SOAP connection  .net non mi permette di consumare tale webservices. Ha qualche consiglio in merito da darmi per po...
Hello, I have a query regarding compilation in PB 2017 R2.  I recently deleted code in my data window file(w_splash_screen). I did a full build and deploy in PB 2017 IDE. I see that my changes are reflected.  Locally, when I compile using command ...
I use a lot of checkboxes in my PB applications, but I've never had the need for a "3-state" checkbox until now.  The programming syntax seems pretty straightforward, but, in my application, the control is NOT working as expected.  Is there anything ...
Hi Is there any plan in the future to support .net standard (2.0) with powerbuilder c# integration? Background: We have many ASP.Net Webservices and want to use Powerbuilder c# integration, but we don't want to migrate our ASP.Net Webservices to AS...
Hello everyone The DBMS I'm using now is O10, the oracle client is 11g, and the database server is 12c. Officially, if the client is 11g or 12c, the DBMSs need to use ORA, so I have a few questions. 1. Why did I use O10 to connect to the database w...
  Hello, We have two Powerbuilder applications communicate via DDE. PB application hangs on and waiting for OUTLOOK.exe. Immediately after closing the outlook, application starts running.  it happens on 64 bit PCs. Win 7 and Win 10 64 bit PCs. n...
Hi Guys   I've set up an Source Control System with SVN and a Continous Integration system with Jenkins. I've one workspace with 4 targets with some pbls shared Moreover on different target I've the same object in different pbls For instance for...
Hello. We have two PowerBuilder applications which communicate via DDE. When MS Word or MS Excel is running, the application stops when executing the command OpenChannel(). It only waits, there is no crash, error or some return code. As soon as I st...
What is the best way to parse a complex XML/SOAP response message to a (internal) objectmodel (without using the [obsolete] webservice proxy functionality) ? Thanks in advance....
We have a treeview in which we currently pull all rows and then use dwfind to scroll to the users last row or the one they selected in a search.   I need a way to reduce memory usage on our servers and rows to disk could be a start, but how does it...


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