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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...
Hello, Using Powerbuilder 2017 R3 / 2019 with Postgresql database Need to access data from a local [ intranet ] server, from a mobile application.   Mobile apps is to read barcode, fetch relevant data from the database, show it, print it and save t...
We've recently moved from VSS to TFS/Git for our source control.   Everything is working great for development - we've opted to use Atlassian's SourceTree to help visually manage branches and workflow (via Git-Flow).  The ability to use feature bran...
we have a app that initially had 25 users and now it is used for more than fifty users and later started to receive error messages , we had to restart the iis and the server .I attach messages of error and a log .I expect your rescommendations , gree...
I need to get the value of a retrieval argument by which the datawindow has been retrieved. I use this method: dw_emp_by_dept.Describe("Evaluate('dept_id', 1)") But this method doesn't work if the DW has no rows. That makes sense because it Evaluat...
Hello I'm looking for some code that would allow me to change the screen resolution using PB2017. I'd like to be to toggle back and forth if possible. Thank You Tom    ...
parent.title    = is_title_initial + ' ' + is_id After changing the window title in script appending an id, the window title under the window menu option doesn't change immediately.  It appears to change once another window is opened but that is a b...
Hello, how can i set the Proxy-Server in the new PB-httpclient-Object (like winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1 obj.setproxy(...) )? thank you in advance...
PB 12.1 build 6639 - Win7 I have a legacy datawindow that takes 4 arguments (number, string, string, string) which passes all 4 arguments to a nested datawindow. That works fine. But if I add a 5th argument (string) to each, then when I run PB, the ...
Hi All,   We have windows application developed in Power Builder 11.5 and recently, we migrated to Power Builder 2017. New migrated application works good. Now, we want to integrate it with Single Sign On, to achieve our company password policy goa...
Hi,  I have just started to have a look at the C# functionality of PB 2019. Does it support MySQL? I cannot generate models for any of my tables. I have created a very simple datawindow on a table without indexes or foreign keys or anything complica...
Hi, after watching the webinar i have been thinkinhg about how  one could use rest for database interaction as first step to make an application 3 tier. Doing that i have not found a solution on how to do that with embedded sql and datawindow /data...
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...


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