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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...
A client of mine, when running an application developed with PowerBuilder and currently compiled with PowerBuilder 2017, is getting an error when going into a particular window.  The error message that pops up is titled "Library Manager" and the mess...
Hello,  I am evaluating a new .net datatore features with a SnapObjects now. In our projects we have a lot of datawindows stored not in PBL but in database tables. So I don`t see a way to create .net datastore not from PBL but from dwsyntax like it...
I am in the process of migrating several PB applications from PB 12.5 to PB 2019. We are using PowerVCS for source control. Does the migration fundamentally change the underlying objects, such that the repository needs updating? If so, I need to figu...
one picture control on top of everything else to simulate shading. with resizing it to window's width and height. but everytime i maximized or resize the window to almost full screen. it shows the glitch. is it a bug? using PowerBuilder 12.6  ...
I set up TFS for source control, following instructions here: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/195-using-powerbuilder-2017-with-tfs-source-control and it seems to work well as far as adding eve...
Hi.   Scenario: One of our customers has our applications (PB 2017 R3) in a folder on a fileserver. All shortcuts on the users computers are like this: \\Fileserver\Maritech\App\app.exe Most of our other customers instead maps this share \\Files...
Hi, I am using PB 12.6. I have a application which uses soap connection. When I run the application from source code, it works fine. But when I do a 64 bit build and run it from application exe, I get a error "Bad runtime function reference at line ...
PB 2017-R3: Using the NativePDF feature to save datastore to file I am not getting the image that is placed on the datawindow object. The image is a fairly small png file. I also tried using SaveNativePDFToBlob and then writing the blob to disk, tha...
I know that Powerbuilder can connect to SQL Azure via SQL Sever Native Client . I have a question: is it possible to build a local desktop Powerbuilder application but using SQL Azure(not an IWA deployed to Cloud)? If so, what is the limitation? Wi...
Using PowerBuilder 6.5, I'm trying to open a PBL to see the source code of the modules.  I have no experience with PB, so I need some hand-holding.  I can display entry forms, but I need to find the code that connects to the Oracle back end, and I ne...
Looking to find a way to access our applications help files without having to user a fileserver, download or copy them to a users PC/Laptop.  What I have tried so far.. created custom visual ole and used the Microsoft browser option.  Works fine insi...
Hi Folks, I'm working on a compiler front-end for building our Powerbuilder applications. I've been using the pborca170.dll and the Orca API documentation as my guide. My process is basically: 1. Bootstrap the application using PBORCA_CompileEntry...
  Does anyone know of any issues because of duplicate, but newer, files shared between PB2019 and PB2017? Different files in the shared\powerbuilder directory are: atl80.dlllibeay32.dlllibglog.dlllibjcc.dlllibjtml.dlllibjutils.dlllibsybunic.dllnlw...
Hi Guys, Any ideas If/how I can create a single datawindow report which has the 1st page portrait and the second as landscape. Would this be possible with a composite report with 2 nested reports. Any ideas would be appreciated.   Thanks Michael...
Hi All, We wrote a script to compile our apps with PBC170.exe which is working good except for resources (bmp,png,ico). Each PBL of the apps have their own PBD for resources. We notice that resources contained in the main PBR are the only one inclu...
Hey there,   I have a complete DevOp Stack with Visual Studio using: Jenkins – Build Automation build Scripts with cake or nuke VS Extensions, like Resharper, web stuff from Mads Kristensen and more Installer Intellisense Intellicode Live ...
The only error I can find is this: “Log file created at: 2019/06/12 07:38:19 Running on machine: NPR-DELL Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msg E0612 07:38:19.416649  6732 FileTool.cpp:351] GetFileLength failed , file...
Getting this error when attempting to run PowerBuilder from development environment.  Running PowerBuilder 9.0.3 on Windows 10 ...
SQL Server dropped support for outer joins in the where clause in SQL Server 2012. According to our DBA, they are thinking of dropping equal joins from the where clause. The database profile in PB/IM has the option to set outer join style. I think t...
We are currently working with Intergraph Smartplant Instrumentation 2009 (SP4 (09.00.04.0132)) and InfoMaker 11.1 and do not have any problems saving and modifying a PSR file in InfoMaker 11.1 and opening it in SPI 2009 (SP4). However, we are testin...


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