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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...
We are creating a STRING file to send to CICS and they are expecting HEX Characters... Is there a way to create HEX Character set using PB?...
Hello everyone, I'm using PB2019R3 2781 and have encountered an issue while using DDE. When the DDE server is running, and I call the GetRemote method in the client, followed by the GetDataDDE method, the client application crashes without any error...
I use the restclient to get the JWT token from powerserver web api since that is how the examples show how to do it.   From what i can tell however, all the GetJWTToken does is post to the url and put the response body in the 'ref string token' and...
Hello, When doing a create datawindow (dw_1.Create ( ls_dw, ls_error )) the drowpdowndatawindows of the columns that are not retrieved because the object does not exist. With the reports (example with composites), putting the object as psr in the da...
Hi, we have application with some modules, and we want to define unique themes for every module. Each Module contains lot of windows. So 1. How to set same theme for some group of windows? 2. How to set themes for all the objects/Controls present i...
Hi Experts, My client is currently using a web application with MySQL as the database. We are planning to migrate the web application to PowerBuilder. Is it possible to continue using the same MySQL database with PowerBuilder? If so, could you pleas...
I'm looking at building my own JWT auth service so that i can not only validate with my database, but also send back information in addition to the token (the URL of the PS web api , the database to use, etc.) the PS web api needs to validate the to...
Some of our internal clients are using Jaws and it wasn't working to well with a datawindow. Almost all the columns tab order was set to 0.  We set the tab orders to non-zero values and jaws didn't do a very good job. Sometimes it ignores the data i...
Hi there PB Developers Is it possible to change the palette of a specific graph in a datawindow using a definition in theme.json? There is an entry "graph-colors" { "palette[] } , but this is used for the whole application.  For printing a report ...
Hi, I have an issue when opening an Excel file using OLE after a Windows update to 22H2 (build OS 19045.3448) The issue occurs only when the program is called from the Windows Task Scheduler ( user session not open ) Connection to Excel seems to w...
Hello, PowerBuilder Ui Framework : Part One : DashBoard - YouTube PowerBuilder UI FrameWork - YouTube While searching google I found this video to create a dashboard in PowerBuilder.  Someone started creating these 3 or 4 years before.  Seems he l...
Hi    I upgraded an app from PB2021 to PB2022 R@ latest build 2819 The application runs fine on development machines with visual studio and powerbuilder installed when i run the application from a non development machine with the latest version of...
Environment. Latest and greatest version of PowerBuilder 2022 R2 GIT Client Installed TortoiseGit Installed.I'm uncertain if this is a how-to or an actual issue. We have been setting up some new repositories in Bonobo. I'm working with one of the ...
is there any way I can use PowerBuilder 2022 off the grid that it is not trying to connect to the internet? is there a code I can use....
PB 2022 1900 I have an application that creates files on a file server. Recently we had a customer where the application completely hung up and the issue ended up being that the File Server had issues so when I would fire the DirectoryExists functio...
I have an application in Powerbuilder 2022 R2 and I need to clear the download history in the browser control before downloading a file. I looked through the documentation and I did not find a way to do this. Any help would be appreciated....
We have migrated our application to Powerserver 2022 which have many .Net assemblies. We have deployed our Powerserver App and API to EKS/Docker/Nginx on Linux. We did not tried or tested it yet, but curious to explore the ability to run this from L...
Still working on communicating with CICS (Mainframe) using RESTClient and Communications is great :) BUT the CICS Mainframe Module is Expecting the SRING to be in EBCDIC... I couldn't find a FUNCTION in the CoderObject to do so... Is there anyone wit...
Planning to implement a new Ribbon bar in the application,  1. What is the optimised way to implement a ribbon bar? Is it using the XML or Power script? 2. Is it possible to switch between the old menu and the new ribbon bar by clicking on a button...
Hello, PB 2019 R3 2728. A string column 2784x60, Autosize Height turned on, placed in Detail with Autosize Height turned on, too: The font is Arial 8pt. In preview, the text takes 4 lines: In Print Preview, it looks different: If I print it...


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