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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...
PB 2019 IDE is really slow on start up. Is that going away?   Thanks Steen...
I'm using Powerbuilder 12.5. In design mode I have expression on protected which is working how is intend. When i run application is not working at all. Any help please....
pb 2019 BUILD 2002   dw buttons are not rendering correctly. I'm using PNG files 16x16 and no one is rendering correctly when set to original size I have attached a sample file. and screenshot. The picture is blurry. the same file used in a menu...
Hello PB Experts,   My project is upgrade from powerbuilder 7.03 to PB 2017 R2, my question is: is there any know issue, upgrade effort estimation norm to apply into my project.   It is about 1 milion line of code so it is hard to scan source and...
We are looking to improve performance in PS web, and we use querymode for searching.  And, in order to get around all of the limitations of querymode, we use sqlpreview to add missing functionality to the querymode processing.   These tidbits for s...
I am trying to connect 12c database  through PowerBuilder 2017 R3 with following code  if not IsValid (SQLADM) then SQLADM = create n_tr end if ls_logon_user_prefix = this.of_prefix(as_userid) SQLADM.of_Init(is_AppINIFile, "Database") SQLADM.log...
How much memory is used by each of the following standard data types? Date Time Datetime Real Double Decimal  ...
Hi,   How can I use the stock icons provided by powerbuilder on DW buttons ? or can I extract the files from pPowerBuilder,  if yes .. what dll ?   Thanks Steen  ...
Hi, Our PowerBuilder application using Sybase SQL Anywhere as it's database. I'm trying to play around with the new C# features, but when I right-click on a datawindow to 'Generate DataModels (C#)' I am required to provide a connection to an SqlServ...
PB v12.1, build 705532 bit application createdThis is STUPID!!!!!I've always believed that any app created with PowerBuilder v12.x and below MUST use a 32 bit Oracle Client in order to connect with an Oracle database, regardless of the bitness of the...
Hi all  I need the your wisdom and experience. I'm Not a PB developer, I wrote a Web service that I need a third party to consume and run. They use PB12.5. I have sent them my WSDL file and when they tried to import it from the Web Service Proxy ...
Hi, We are currently migrating old PB6.5 to PB2017. We have a problem that the PB6.5 application, the report save as htm has replaced by html in PB2017. This cause the report format is different that with additional rows and columns.  The serious...
Hello!! I´ve got another question. Now I  have a webservice to write a file in a server folder. To that folder I have given full control permissions to the IUSR and IIS_IUSRS users as well as to the users PBDotnet4AppPool and DefaultAppPool. Even s...
A user is getting this error when doing a Retrieve() on a DataWindow. We are not explicitly using sqlda. The database software is Firebird SQL. The same Retrieve() works on the 3 computers in our office. (The user is the first one to test that code o...
Hi All,   I'm using PB12.1. I create a datawindow using syntaxfromsql and then add some controls dynamically into it. All is working except that when I want to modify the width expression of one the controls I added, I could not get any success. Ca...
Hi in my application I use the SQLPreview event in Datawindows for logging purpose writing on a log table the SQL's command used by DW's. I'm using Microsoft SQL Server (2008 to 2012). Since I have begin to use the NChar datatype for foreign chars...
Hello, I know that most of toolbars' operations are not available when running in web mode. Is it however possible to have all toolbars on the same line at the start of the application ? I'd like to see that: instead of that :   Thank you ! ...
Hello, Just now installed PB 2018 beta.   It asks for login information again, even though I've logged in using PB 2017 R3.  I think Pb 2018 should login automatically, when PB 2017 is already in logged in status.  Isn't it ?   Won't this prevent u...
Hello, I followed the example of the help to encrypt in MD5; however, the result is not as expected. Let's see, this is the example: Blob lblb_data Blob lblb_md5 String ls_resultMD5 lblb_data = Blob("Test MD5", EncodingANSI!) CrypterObject...
Hello, I will try to explain as best I can what happens... Visual user object The visual user object uvo_year  declares one private instance variable initialized to 2019 :                 private integer ii_year=2019  The function uf_getyear...


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