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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.   :) ...
Hi everyone.Im creating a discord server for talk about powerbuilder development. If you want to join it: https://discord.gg/MvG33eV...
Hi, i am trying to export a dw into an excel file, and i have problems handlig carriage returns and line feed characters. I also gave a look at the code samples but in the example i found the CRLF characteres are remuved. Can You help me please? How...
Hello Elevate 2018 attendees, Could anyone tell us whether any planned update regarding native PDF creation ?   I feel even the basic requirement of custom paper size is not taken care of in current release R3.  Hope there will be a requirement for ...
Can you make a datawindow where every other row has a different background color?    I need it for reports to make them easier to read.  In other words, Can the odd number lines - Lines 1, 3, 5, etc., have a white background. And can the even number...
Buenas Tardes alguien  tiene los videos de FIliberto Sosa y Chris Pollach, los que presentaron en Elevate 2018 de noviembre, los busco en el listado publicados en esta pagina y no los encuentro.   Gracias   Att  Maria  ...
Currently we extend our Powerbuilder published applications with a variety of .NET user controls that we've COM wrapped and inserted as OLE controls. With the increased C# support coming in Powerbuilder 2018, will we be able to directly reference and...
All - curious if anyone has these same problems as we're having with source control connections via the workspace object, see two attached shots.  1 - we have a consistent blowup with the TFSMsscciSvr.exe when trying to make a connection to Visual S...
Hello Experts,   We are facing issue while opening multiple windows. As part of Opening multiple windows. System creates Datawindow objects. We noticed that when User Object reached 240 / 250 limit then system is started to crash.    Do we have a...
Hi team, I have migrated my PowerBuilder Application from PB11.5 Build 4788 to PB 2017 R3 Build 1858 which got completed successfully but while running the application below termination issue occurring. Please have a look and advice accordingly for...
I am sending e-mails using Ole object (outlook.application) . The outlook in my computer is configured with two e-mail addresses. Say, one is xxx@gmail.com and another is xxx@company.com. Here in outlook, the default mail is set as xxx@gmail.com(that...
Hello, I need to capture images using the attached webcam [ desktop, laptop, ...]  and store that image in a database.  Smaller image size is preferable. Currently I got Logitech C-170.    Any idea how to accomplish this task ?  Should work ...
Hello, PB 2017 R3 Got one datawindow [dw_1] with one field, and a sle_1 on a window.   Need to move from dw_1 to sle_1 using enter [also].  Added the following code in pbm_dwnprocessenter event Send(Handle(This), 256,9, Long(0,0))Return 1   In ...
Hi,   i am trying to pass a structure to a c# dll, but i cant get it to work.I can pass simple datatypes like long and string.But when i use a struct with only a string, the string gets mangled. I have a read that you have to padd structure but do...
I found that this dll is being added by the runtime packager. I cannot find any information about it in the help files. Is it needed? If yes, what is it for? Roland...
Hi guys,   using PB2017 R3.   I need to create an XML document from my app. When i do the fileopen i code the EncodingAnsi parameter , but nonetheless the file being created is unicode ( i can see this when i do a save as in notepad).   The re...
Does anyone have experience using data objects built over an Impala database?  I'm making an ODBC connection and can successfully execute Insert, Update, and Delete statements.  I built a test data object, and the retrieve/display functionality works...
I am running PowerBuilder 2017.  The database is Microsoft SQL Server.  I am doing something very simple but it is not working.    I have a column in a datawindow and the column has a drop down datawindow. I want to sort the drop down in a certain ...
When a user logs into my application, the application checks the database to see if it is the most up-to-date version.  Currently, when the app finds that it is NOT the most recent version, it gives the user a message to download the latest, and then...
Hi all. My team and me are moving the first steps in SCM usage so we're facing very basic problems. I looked into the docs and found no answer to my issue, so I'm asking here. Please forgive if the questions are silly! I am setting up our first SCM...
PB folks  - we just got the new Appeon PB up and running for a couple developers on our boxes. One thing that I noticed yesterday was that upon logging into a particular box and firing up PB, PB came up already logged in....with another developer's n...


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