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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...
Good morning, I did the migration of our old app under PowerBuilder 5 to 2019.  Now, it seems the main window on the application is not define.  How do I initial it?   I looked at the error message under the Help option but I don't see anything simi...
  We have migrated our code from PB11 to PB19-R2 and seeing following behaviours. - Horzontal and Verticle Scroll Bars are not fully visible.- TAB control's header are not fully visible We tried adjusting the various UI properties for TAB, Windo...
Good morning, The application I am trying to migrate contains two main PBLs.  The scms.pbl has objects (exe file).   The second PBL (jyw.pbl)  doesn't seem to have any objects. Once we selected and click Next, it will follow with an error messag...
Hi all, So I am having the issue from trying to get Ctrl + C/V/X  (copy paste cut) to work while using a Ribbonbar. How we used to do it was in the menu object, we would call of_SendMessage("pfc_copy"). So when I setting up my ribbonbar parent objec...
I am in the process of updating the look and feel of our application.  Part of this is selecting a new font for our application. Since I will have to go through every single object and change this I am wondering if there is a way to have the fonts gl...
Hi All,  Would appreciate some pointers on this.  Our PB 2019 R2 application has a menu object or the menu and currently the Help option directs the user to a file on the file system. We wish to change that so that the user is directed to an online...
HI, I connect to MYSQL Database through Powerbuilder 2017. I get rows back for the first call (months 1) but then on the second one (month 2) it seems that the same query hangs and after 2 hours it doesn't give a error message it only gives a -1 on...
Hi, you all. As of November 26, 2020, I have uploaded an app to the App Store from Xcode and the output in Xcode was successful. However, I received an email from Apple mentioning the following: We identified one or more issues with a recent delive...
Hi Folks, I'm a SysAdmin investigating a problem for an application we develop in-house using PowerBuilder 2019.  We are running it currently on Windows Server 2012 R2 and are seeing some odd behaviour.  We are seeing the same behaviour also in Wind...
Good morning I am trying to activate my powerbuilder application while working on another (non powerbuilder) application. What I have to do is, when the second application write a file in a predefined folder, my PB application must consume the file...
Calling PrintGetPrinter() with no printers on the workstation causes a hard crash (of an application or the Powerbuilder IDE if run in debug mode). I'm working around the issue by first calling PrintGetPrinters() (returns an empty string) so I can c...
I recently installed Powerbuilder 2019 R2. When trying to connect to Oracle database 12c through database interface I get error “ORA-01017:invalid username/password;logon denied"  My user credentials are right and I am able to connect to sql develo...
Hi, How do i consume rest api with url image as one on the parameter response. I need to call the image, download and store into a folder with reference no.   Happy for your response....
We have a PB Application, say a LoginApp. Users login to this application. Their username, password, access rights information validated/handled in this application.There are other PB applications AppA, AppB, AppC, etc., which communicate to this Log...
We are trying to change the back color of a tab header but seems it wont apply even tough we set the color property. Always displayed in grey color as you can see. Please take a look the below image and let us know a solution for this issue.   Tha...
Has anyone else had an issue converting a DW to PDF with a small PNG icon in the detail band?The first page renders just fine:.. but it starts overlapping multiple images on subsequent pages:It happens on Grid and Freeform, but I was able to verify t...
Appeon need to learn jetbrains,allow user to by appeon product online. Especially for independent developers,Eduction developers jetbrains allow everyone buy jetbrains's products online ,for China users ,can use alipay to pay it is a suggestion h...
I am trying to convert the Datawindow to txt file by using the command 'saveasascii' and then convert it back to Excel.However, the Datawindow is not displayed as it is.If the Datawindow is freeform, the line is pushed.Is there a workaround in the 20...
The 2-day online conference Elevate 2020 has concluded successfully! We greatly appreciate all the hard work from our MVPs & Community Presenters. Not only did they share their knowledge through videos, but they also joined the session Live to an...
We have a super weird issue with a browser control.  We have an external vendor supplied .NET 1 page app that we host and call from PB 12.5.2 (build 5609).  The control sits on a response window.  We've been in prod for almost a year with great succe...


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