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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...
We have an application coded against PowerBuilder 12.0 and 12.1 that we are trying to migrate to PowerBuilder 2017. We have a large number of documents in the RTF format from the PowerBuilder 12.1 RTE control. It appears that the PowerBuilder 2017 RT...
Hi All, Hoping someone may have done this before. Appeon Mobile provides its own Text Control for use on Windows and UO's which developers can use.  This provides the developer with the ability to display different versions of the keyboard ...
Hi All, I'm working with the trial version of PowerBuilder 2017...currently using v 11.5.1. We currently use Ghostscript to SaveAS PDF.  Ghostscript also has functionality of being able to programically combine multiple PDFs into 1 PDF whic...
I'm assuming they are copied during PB installation somewhere. I have searched appeon folders but can't find those PBLs. i.e. of_getfiledata,  of_openalbums  , of_takefile ...
Is there a solution to retrieve blob dynamically. The table and column name is known only at runtime.  It appears that datawindow has blobtable column that actually retrieves blob data, but there is no method to assign it to Blob variable. The ...
Have just had a proper look through the Elevate Session Catalog... WOW, WOW, WOW! Some really interesting and mouth watering stuff there.  If only I could clone myself to attend all of them!! Will Appeon be planning on recording each session to...
I'm planning to migrate to PB2017 and continue to produce a 32 bit client application. Will that application be able to make use of 64 bit ASE open client drivers or should i be looking at having 32 bit versions of open client installed.   ...
I do not have any power builder knowledge. I migrated database from sybase to SQL 2012. Current users Executes  application EXE file built using PowerBuilder 5 and provides ODBC DATA SOURCE information in Data window. What steps to perform. I r...
Hi Powersphere. Just add this one again - cause i guess when people see a question has been answered - all is good.... In this case it was not a correct answer however.....   Is there a way to add COOKIES to a DATAWINDOW Based on WEB SERV...
When I save the file, the File Editor/Database ISQL Session save unicode format. How can I save the file ANSI format?   Thank you in advance, Hiroshi   ...
I'm in the process of migrating several applications from PB 10.5 to 2017. Migration is complete, and I am building test builds.  I've started getting a message during build: A Full build is required to be compatible with the source cod...
I'd like to upload some sample code somewhere. I hope it may be useful for others. Anyone have any ideas on the best place to upload code, and where to announce it? Is Appeon likely to provide such a feature one day? Thanks! ...
Recently our database server was upgraded and although PowerBuilder runs fine, when I click design, data source for a datawindow I get the following error. "Table "csd_currentenrollmentcount" has no columns; possible invalid table format. Please ...
Hi, I have migrated an application from PB12.5 to PB2017. I built the 64 bit exe and during testing it is crashing with no identified pattern. We are using same development machine to test the 64 bit exe so the need of PBVM was out of question. Bu...
Hello, I have a small PB .NET application which is failing randomly with the following error logged in the Event Viewer of the Server. Can anyone help me analyze what could have caused this?  I have logs writing from the application at the very...
We have a webservice (Developed in C#) for Authorize.net. From the Powerbuilder we are generating Web Service Proxy Objects. Everything seems to have worked till now since Authorize.net was using TLS 1.0. After the authorize.net Upgraded to TLS 1.2 ,...
As I understand it, none of the traditional PB methods of catching and handling OLEObject errors are available in Appeon Web, like try/catch blocks, the ExternalException event, and the SystemError event. I understand that Appeon Web does its own ...
What static code analysis tools will PowerBuilder work with?  My company currently uses SonarQube. ...
Hi PowerSphere , How can I add Cookie information ( like session id etc ) when using the Datawindow Web Service object ? TIA Georgios   ...
Hi, I use sharedregister and sharedobjectget methods in my application to make it mutithreaded. It works great in pb version 11 and 12 but no longer works in 2017. I extensively use this feature. SharedobjectGet method has been set to obsolete in ...


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