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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...
Is there a maximum number of PBL that can be in a Library List?   We have 141. I like to add about 90 paired unit test PBLs. Is there a hard limit of 255?   Thanks Yakov...
Hi.   Several of our customers use Citrix to run our application, and for the most part it works fine. But every now and then some experience that certain forms will not draw/show completely. I have attached an example where a popup window ("Lage...
Powerserver 2017, PowerBuilder 2017 R3, Sybase ASE 16. Works fine in Client server, but when running in WEB, after the close of the query, AEM still shows transaction opened, eventually it times out and we get the transaction time error.  Any ideas ...
Need to put a rectangle into a GroupBox.  Rectangle does not show, setting position to bring it to top not working. Groupbox always in front of Rectangle. Is this a bug? PowerBuilder 2017 R3....
Powerserver WEB (2017 r3) We have a simulated messagebox window, it has a static text and three buttons on it.  None are set to default. Because of the seriousness of the message in the text we do not want the user to accidentally hit enter and selec...
Hello Sir, My organisation has a plan to upgrade existing PowerBuilder application from 12.5.2 to PowerBuilder 2017 version in order to communicate to webserver secured with TLS 1.2 and Window 10 compatible.    Our application has around 289 web s...
I was having issues with my laptop. So I took it to Microsoft Store. They end out formatting and installing Windows 10. My Laptop is clean and I am going to install PowerBuilder 2017 R3. My question is can I do the R3 directly of I have to install al...
Looking for some insights if anyone has tried to use RPA (Robotic Process Automation) such as UIPath on their PB2017 application.    We're looking for ways to automate keystrokes by populating our PB application with structured data from an external ...
Hello, Using PB 2019 build 2002, I followed the tuto to create and test a Web API, then adapted it to work with an Oracle database. Everything is working fine except when I try to change from localhost to another host. Actually, it does  work with ...
Hi, We're testing using MSOLEDBSQL driver from SQL Native Client and one of the stored procedures that has a datetime parameter is excluding the "seconds" portion, when the stored proc is called from PB. It works with SQL Native Client though.   I...
Hi, hopefully someone can help   I have an application that is written in PB2017 and runs on a windows 8 or windows 10 tablet.    I would like to capture a signature , what is the best way to do this ?   regards and thanks in advance   Andrew...
Okay here is my issue,  I am trying to either update a row or insert a row into the database using a data window. I have made sure that all the update properties are set correctly. Everything looks good.. then when I run the app, I get the following...
Dear Appeon:       We meet a  confusion, these days,  As code 128 font is used in label printing, the font is installed in the PCs, but when PC re-installed, different code 128 font with same font face name (both name "Code 128") can be installed a...
PowerBuilder 12.1, build 7055Oracle 12CWindows 7, SP 1, 64 bit platform, 12 GB RAM, plenty of free disk spaceHELP!When running as an executable, the following code works perfectly.When running from the IDE it causes an abend in the IDE - no error mes...
Hi Guys  anyone has already experienced a connection to Dropbox api and a download of a file?   Thanks...
EAServer 6.3.1 I need to setup a database connection (connection cache in 5.x) for a SQL Anywhere 11 database located on the same PC as EAServer. I plan on creating some components using PowerBuilder 12.6 that connect to the database. I'm also gett...
Okay, back again.... seems that PB as real attitude with me.. :O)   When I am inserting a row into the table I get the following error: - SQLSTATE = 42000--Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0--INSERT failed because the following SET options ha...
Hi everyone, As I read in other questions, the LOWERED! BORDER in the DataWindow column does not work in the PowerBuilder 2017 R3 1880 version. Although we can see it in the design of the DataWindow when the DataWindow is seen from the window the co...
We are moving a Powerbuilder 2017 R3 application into Powerserver. While doing this, we encountered this issue.  1. We have an mdi frame window with a status bar that sits in the lower right hand corner. We applied an Appeon workaround that moves t...
We have recently migrated our source code from PB 11.5 Build 3050 to PB2017r2. Clients are complaining that the software is now taking considerably longer to open than before (32 seconds in PB 11.5 and 2 minutes 23 seconds in PB2017). There are no co...


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