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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...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
We are progressing with our POC and hit an issue with an Oracle RPC call. This issue occurs in the initial screen of our main application processing and this is stalling our POC progression. When we call this particular RPC, we are getting an error ...
PB 2019 R3 2728 This seems like a dumb question but I cannot get the PrintScreen function to print the screen of a secondary monitor (or third, etc).  It only prints the primary.  What am I missing? Chris Craft...
Hi. We had an old powerserver (Appeon for Powerbuilder v.2015) installed in a client. They had an web application running. Recently we decided to upgrade to PowerServer 2020. Everything went ok. We then redeployed the application using Powerbuilder...
Hello,Recently, one of our client did a security audit of our application.As a result, he now wants us to sign the EXE and the PBD libraries.We are currently using PowerBuilder 2019 build 2170 and we saw on a previous post that signing of EXE's is cu...
Hi I use the theme and have all objects customized with it. Now I have a Datawindow object dw_cust in the Windows w_customer. Here the datawindow should not be customized with the theme. How can I set this in the JSON file? How can I exclude object...
I have 4 DropDownDatawindow (dddw) in a screen, all retrieved and shared using ShareData () in a single/same datawindow object . Out of 4 the 3 DropDownDatawindow works as expected but for the account datawindow the data are not getting display. But ...
Hi, I have an application in android 10 and when I need to send a mail with an attach works great, but I have the same application in android 11 and when i want to send a mail with an attach there is an error because gmail application have not access...
Good morning,We are currently using PB2017 R3 (upgrading in 2 months to PB21) and we are having an issue with all URLs defaulting to IE. We are using Windows 10 and I have Edge set as my default. If I click a link within MS Teams, it opens in Edge. I...
I have a radio button column in a DW with 3 options. I'd like to add a tooltip that explained each option as you hovered over it, but as far as I can tell there is only one tooltip for the entire column. Explaining all 3 options in one tooltip would ...
Can I download and install PB 2021 without it affecting my PB 2019 installation? My license renews in May... does my license let me run both versions?  I have several customers using the most recent app built with PB 2019 R3 and release last Septembe...
We are currently trying to convert all of our code from Sybase to SQL Server database (v19) using MSOLEDBSQL SQL Server database driver v18.5   Our latest critical issue is a datawindow update that is returning a -3 from a datawindow update. We tr...
UPDATE:     FYI:  This works:boolean        lb_validstring           ls_columnlb_valid = IsNull (adw_object) IF (NOT (lb_valid)) THEN RETURN                    // <--- the lb_valid value is FALSE at this point, as it should be.lb_valid = IsValid (...
I am following the PB Tutortials for PB 2017. I am having a problem running the applications cause it does not have the database for the examples. I do not want to use the SQL Anywhere and would like to get the scripts to create the tables and suppor...
Hello, PowerServer deployed application not able to find DataWindow objects and displaying below error.  Window objects and User Objects are loading fine.  Please let me know how to fix this issue.  Thanks.  Files are present under below folder ...
Hello, Need to get the IP address, assigned by ISP, from an PB application.   Is it possible?   If I go to myip.com, there we will get the IP address assigned by the ISP.  Need to get the same from an PB application.  How to get it? Happiness Alwa...
SQL Developer can connect successfully but there's an issue in PowerBuilder database profile setup - Oracle 10g when I tried to connect. Appreciate any advise on how to resolve the Oracle error ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout occurred?  tnsnames.ora...
Hello,     We had a older version of PB code , Recently we compiled the code in  Appeon version 2019 R3 and deployed the newer version to the production servers.      we are facing very poor performance with our scanning process. Its takes approxim...
We have a PB classic application migrating to PS (latest PB etc.), connecting to Oracle 19 database.  When the application runs in PS it is not encapsulating multiple SQL statements in a transaction, almost as though a commit is issued between each s...
Hi, After migrating from PB 2017 to PB 2021, setup been created and deployed to clean VM, but, nothing works... It seems, via process explorer, that PB run time, from folder 'Runtime 21.0.0.1506', under the application folder is not loaded. Few ob...
I am working in Powerbuilder 2021. Can someone point me to documentation for making a menu appear when right clicking a datawindow?...


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