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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...
Looking for some troubleshooting suggestions.   I'm receiving a datawindow error trying to import a SRD source file.   The reported row and column do not match the actual SRD source file.   Not even an off by a couple rows close.   The reported appar...
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I built a composite datawindow to allow a user to print two dw's on a single page. I am using sharedata on the dwc's to populate the dw's.  When I call sharedata on one of the dw's it pops the "specify retrieval arguments" window.  Any ideas what is ...
hi, As of today we are using PushOk as our Git sourcecontroll client with appeon pb 2017 R3, and it work well. But we most strongly wont to use Appeon tools. Our developers like to use library view when working with the source, and as we see it, ap...
Hi all,LineCount function is listed here as being supported:https://www.appeon.com/support/documents/appeon_online_help/pb2017r3/features_help_for_appeon_web/ch10s10s03.html In reality it always returns 0 (zero) in a WEB deployed application.Any sug...
I have installed PB2017 then migrated my old pbcode from pb12 to pb17. I found one strange error. In pb12 if we click any tabpage and if we have tabs inside that tab page by default it will open the first tab page but it is not happening in lastest p...
1 - I have been searching for this tool (as recommended in instruction for debugging), but no luck/ Microsoft have removed from their site , any recommended /reliable site ? 2 -  Is Appeon planing to integrate Powerserver debugging in future?   Th...
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I am getting the below error when trying to install PB Appeon version (PWRBLDR-2017R3LTS-1858-STD-EN). Below error message screenshot. THis is on  my laptop which is on Windows 10. The issue started when I tried to reinstall PB after Windo 7 to 10 mi...
Hello, We use Appeon's Packager to build an MSI for deploying PowerBuilder's RunTime for our applications.  For the most part it's working fine with one exception.  After installing the PB RunTime and then installing our applications, we need to cop...
Much of the online information on migrating/converting CVS repositories to Git is at least 7 years old. Does anyone have more recent experience and can recommend procedure and/or utilities? Looking for the most dependable. Of course would also des...
Hi, I would like to know if there's any way to make a page break on a grouponly when this group does not fit completely on a single page. For example,we have a dw with a group on the ORDER column. We have several lines that do not fit entirely on the...
Hello Chris... I have a problem with the datawindow, the detail is that I made a list of products with their image, but when I scroll vertically, the datawindow is locked, and in many cases it takes me out of the application by memory saturation , a...
Has anyone successfully integrated a testing framework into their CI environment for their power builder codebase, either in VSTS or AWS? It's a legacy project and although desirable, full unit test coverage is probably out of scope, however some sor...
Hi All, While opening the application EXE, the below mentioned error message has been displayed with the old version of PB2017 version. Cannot load Rich text edit control: Windows error code 0 : pbctxtext170.dll is missing On Adding the ment...
Hi,    I have a few problems viewing the reports after migrating the code from power builder 9 to 2017R3(MR #1858 patch). Problem is that the content in the reports are not sorting in order and some of the text found missing in few pages while bein...
In this latest version of R3 I can choose between the internal RichTex control or the previous TXT version. Does anyone know what version of the TXT is implemented. Is it the old version that was in 12.5 or their latest release. Thanks in advance, R...
 Hi, This is a web service question. I can't seem to get a simple web service to connect to a local database using odbc. software Im using is as follows: powerbuilder 2019 beta,  sybase anywhere 16,  iis 10,  windows 10. This is a standard power ...
I need assistance with referencing a DLL in my build using Orcascript (Orcascr170) or PBC170.  I have an application that when built via the IDE references two DLLs as Dynamic Linked Libraries and the deployed exe file succesfully calls these DLLS fo...
Hi all. I have a problem regarding the escaping of backslash characters with SQL Anywhere dbs. I experience the problem inside a PB Datawindow, but it's merely a db problem, so I will describe it in terms of pure SQL. Suppose I create a dummy table...


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