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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, I installed PB2017 trial edition on a Windows 10 Pro tablet. SQLAnywhere 12 and 17 are already installed on it. I try to setup a 32bits ODBC datasource to the AppeonSample.db database with no luck, neither with SA12 nor SA17. Error me...
Hi there, some 8 weeks ago I filed bug report #288. As we rely on the solution, I'd like to monitor the progress. Bugzilla does not accept my Appeon account. Where can I go? Who can I ask? Thanks Martin ...
Hi, We are working on upgrade to Powerbuilder 2017. We tried to deploy 64-bit Powerbuilder application to Windows 10 System. We have some .Net Component communicate with PB using OLEobject call. All .Net component build as AnyCPU. But communicatio...
Hello, I am running PB 12.6. In the application, there is a window with a user object that is not visible.  During regular running of the application, the object is made visible and brought to the front.  This works in the IDE just fine, however, ...
Hi All,   We have been testing our application manually for a very long time which is in Powerbuilder but just wanted to know if you can perform Automated testing on our powerbuilder aplplication, please let me know the name of the tools and th...
I have just installed the maintenance release build 1681, my main issue being the native PDF quality. The quality, I am happy to say, is now excellent, but.. At the moment, I create PDFs using the PDFCreator (version 1.7) API which works perfectly. T...
A suggestion for our current problems with the new RTE control is that it is possible to utilize the old control by switching a setting in the Application Painter. However, I do not see the mentioned setting when I go to look for it. I feel like I...
Is there a specification somewhere to the particular RTF format that is used by the new RTE Control internally? The control appears to be the TE (tecf) control from SubSystems. Is this correct? If so, does Appeon (or SubSystems via Appeon) have an...
I've seen some of the other various questions and issues regarding the new Rich Text control, and we're experiencing most of these issues even with build 1681 (the CPU/load spike is by far the worst, we can't migrate our clients up when w...
Hello dear members of the Community ! My issue is the following : I need to be able to save the content of a DW in a .xlsx format. We are using Excel 2013 and Excel 2016. I’m working with a version 12.1 of PowerBuilder and migrating it to Power...
I'm in PB 12.6, Windows 8, looking at the MonthCalendar control.  Setting properties such as MonthBackColor, TextColor, TitleBackColor, etc. have no effect.  I found this from Dave Fish, Sybase, 2009: The Vista operating system does not suppor...
Hello, I'm facing an issue I’va already read about some weeks ago : unable to active the PowerServer Mobile Trial License. I'm on an enterprise network and have no other choice but connecting thru a proxy server. All machines are the sa...
Like many other developers, I have created a user control to be a command button.  Yes, it's because of that whole look-and-feel thing. Has anyone figured out how to implement the "Default Button" behavior that the system command button allows...
I'm trying to find a good demo mobile app as a starting point for developing some mobile apps with various functionality.  I installed the CordovaDemo app and it runs on my Android phone but I only get -1 return codes, which seems in indicate an ...
I am using the trial version of PowerBuilder 2017.  In PowerBuilder 12.5 and PowerBuilder 2017 32bit I am able to call a C# function that has the Robert Giesecke “Unmanaged Exports” package.  In PowerBuilder 2017 64bit I am not able to call the C# fu...
Just converted from PowerBuilder 6.5 and the OUTPUT parameter is not working with SQL. I get the following error and any help would be appreciated: SQLSTATE = 42000 Microsoft SQL Native Client Cannot use the OUTPUT option when passing a constant to a...
Hi, We used to build the executable using Windows Server 2008 in our older version of PB. Since we are upgrading PB version to PB 2017. Is it ok if we use "Windows Server 2012". Are there any issues if we create a Powerbuilder executable using...
Are we going to get access to to the code samples/examples from the conference? Mark Hulser ...
We are running PB9 on Win7 computers.  We have installed new printers (HPs, with PCL drivers), but PB won't print to the new printers unless a postscript driver is installed. Is that a requirement of PowerBuilder to only print to postscript pr...
When I go to see the conference documents, all I get is a rotating busy image that never goes away. https://www.appeon.com/user/center/index#mydocuments   ...


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