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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 9 months ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Guidance for Git with shared PFC and PFD layers
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  1. Last updated 37 minutes ago
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Guidance for shared PFC and PFD layers. Our current TFS structure is similar to below. We have departments and department specific applications. All applications use the shared PFC/PFD structure, and some or all of the custom pfd libraries. I followe...
Greg Demieville Greg Demieville
  1. PowerBuilder
Error -11 importing XML string into DS if declaration contains single-quotes
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
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Hello, I use datastore importString() method to import XML. The first line is usually xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" but it happens that the double-quotes are replaced by single-quotes, giving xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'...
Pierre Couvreur Pierre Couvreur
  1. PowerBuilder
App wont open through web URL
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  1. Last updated 4 hours ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
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I have had this application running for a while. It is containerized using Docker/Kubernetes. I needed to look at something this morning and used the URL to start the application. I got the standard blue screen to start the application or download th...
billy hugon billy hugon
  1. PowerServer
PDF Export Cuts Off Data in Nested Reports After Converting to Executable (PBD) in PowerBuilder 2019 R3
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  1. Last updated 5 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 hours ago
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I am currently using PowerBuilder 2019 R3. When previewing nested reports, all the data is displayed correctly. However, after converting it into an executable (PBD) and opening the saved PDF, some data is cut off.I am using NativePDF .Auto size prop...
J S Mayuri J S Mayuri
  1. PowerBuilder
Cloud app launcher default directory is not changing during runtime.
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  1. Last updated 6 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 hours ago
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Hi Team, I have a situation where when i successfully published my powerser app, Post that when i am running the powerserver app , the cloud launcher is taking default path which is C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\CloudAppLauncherPublic_V2\AppLaunch...
Vijay Kumar Vijay Kumar
  1. PowerServer
Datawindow Page Break Print
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Krishna Mohan Gullap replied 4 hours ago
3 replies
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Hi I am 'recycling' Mike Monette's question I found online (from 1997, long live the internet!!) about placing a page break onto a datawindow. You may find his original post here - https://bit.ly/2UAZpbu I'll copy and paste it here as well just so...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
relazione tra memoria e velocità di esecuzione
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 hours ago
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Ciao a tutti Da un po' di tempo riscontriamo una certa lentezza sul nostro applicativo. Noi notiamo che all'aumento della memoria spesso corrisponde un degrado significativo dei tempi di esecuzione. Il nostro studio su un campione significativo di...
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
PS 2020 crashing on certain Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  VINOD NAIR replied 5 hours ago
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We have a PS 2020 application running in production and lately some of our client machines got upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 and 22H2 and the application stopped working. We use IWARunner to launch the applications and it starts giving all kind of erro...
VINOD NAIR VINOD NAIR
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Theme to a datawindow
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  1. Last updated 15 hours ago
  2.  Luis Pesaressi replied 6 hours ago
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Hi, how can I apply a theme to a specific datawindow or how can I customize a specific datawindow, a datawindow NOT a datawindow control with the themes or that the theme is NOT applied to that datawindow since they have a special design Thanks L...
Luis Pesaressi Luis Pesaressi
  1. PowerBuilder
Background Colour change for MDI frame while using Theme
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  1. Last updated 13 hours ago
  2.  Narayana Bhat P replied 11 hours ago
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Hi Team, How to change MDI Frame Window background colour while applying theme, i am not seeing any option available for this in theme.json We want to make white background for MDI frame window and ribbon bar menu while using Flat Design Blue. Whit...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  Theme
  3.  RibbonBar
Narayana Bhat P Narayana Bhat P
  1. PowerBuilder
SOAP Log file and PB 12.5
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 22 hours ago
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I am using PB 12.5 and SOAP. I want to write the in/our parameters to a log file.I use the SetOptions command:conn = create SoapConnection //Instantiated connectionlLog = conn.SetOptions("SoapLog=~"C:\mySoapLog.log~"")And it creates the log file BUT ...
Dawn Browneyes Dawn Browneyes
  1. PowerBuilder
Why Am I getting this error and how can I fix it? Invalid~Hex character sequence in string
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Daryl Foster replied 22 hours ago
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Reynard Harrison Reynard Harrison
  1. PowerBuilder
Has anybody implemented the Win32 API for GetFileVersionInfo ?
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Richard Hartman replied 1 day ago
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Not wanting to have to maintain version and copyright info in (at least) two places, I would like my "About" box to be able to fetch version and copyright info from the .exe file versioninfo block. You can set this info in the application "Version" t...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  WinAPI
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get to existing extern function definitions (or add them)
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Richard Hartman replied 1 day ago
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Ok. I've inherited a project and probably don't know some basics. Like this one. We have some modules that have some external functions, such as: function boolean GetUserNameA(ref string lpBuffer, ref ulong nSize) library "ADVAPI32.DLL" T...
  1.  External Functions
  2.  PowerBuilder
Richard Hartman Richard Hartman
  1. PowerBuilder
Wrong fonts after export to pdf
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Matt Balent replied 1 day ago
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Hi, we use NativePDF method to export datawindow to pdf, but pdf have not same font as original datawindow. Arial looks different and Courier is not bold in pdf. I don't know, what is wrong.  
Miroslav Hajfler Miroslav Hajfler
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2025 Beta4 - Deployment/Executable
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Panos Platanas replied 1 day ago
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Hi, at the moment we are running on Standard Licencse and our main app is approx 50 PBLs. We were notified by PowerVCS (excellent product - we never had a single issue all these years) that the support will stop in the end of 2025 so we are start...
  1.  PowerBuilder Compiler
Panos Platanas Panos Platanas
  1. Beta Testing
Host Variables may not be used within a batch [SQL Anywhere 12]
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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Hello, I am trying to create a simple CRUD API for a sample table in my database. When I test with Swagger UI, the Retrieve is successful, however the Create call is sent successfully but the transaction is rolled back with the error "ERROR [HY000] ...
  1.  Batch
  2.  C#
  3.  Error
  4.  ODBC
  5.  REST
  6.  SQL
  7.  SQL Anywhere
  8.  SnapDevelop
  9.  .NET DataStore
  10.  Web API
Joseph Campanelli Joseph Campanelli
  1. SnapDevelop
UI Enhancements help - PB 2025 Beta
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 days ago
5 replies
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Hi all, we are desperately need the UI enhancements because the application (started from PB 7 and now running on PB 2017) looks old and customers are starting to complain heavily. I got super excited when I saw than on January beta there was an ea...
Panos Platanas Panos Platanas
  1. Beta Testing
Dropdown Target framework in Powerserver
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 days ago
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We are currently working with PB2022R3. I installed PB2025B with .net8 to test it. When running from PB2023R3, in the PowerServer project, the Target Framework dropdown (in build) shows .net8, which is not compatible with PB2022R3 (if I'm not mistake...
damian jimenez damian jimenez
  1. PowerServer
PB 2025 Beta4: PBAutobuild error
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 days ago
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Hi, I'm currently testing pbautobuild from 2025 beta4. I can build my application without error with the IDE, but when using pbautobuild, "pbautobuild250.exe" /f ./compile_sur_d.json /l compile.log /le error.log", with the same project exported as j...
Pascal Leblanc Pascal Leblanc
  1. Beta Testing

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