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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 All, The JSon file of the exported PowerServer application, will have MetaInfo about the IDE and runtime version. Whenever Appeon will release a new version of the MR, the JSON file will have to be updated to reflect this new version. Instead of ...
Hi Team, Need help on scrolling user object based on row selection. In a window, I have a datawindow on the left side. On the right side, I have a user object(container for user object) inherited from u_base. I have opened several user objects one ...
Hi Everyone, We recently upgraded from PowerBuilder 2021 to PowerBuilder 2022 R3, and we've encountered an issue with the message boxes. It seems that if a user receives a message box and navigates to another window before responding to it, the mess...
Is it possible to dynamically change the datawindow syntax for a nested report in the group header datawindow?  I have a header and footer on a nested report.  I want to be able to assign the datawindow syntax to the nested report at runtime.  I am ...
Hi, I have an old 32-bit application that I want to move to the cloud (currently thinking of AWS). I've done some research on my own, which suggested tools like Power Server, but that isn't available on PB9. Would I have to upgrade to PB12 first befo...
Dear all, On the Compilation of PB 2022 R2, using the stand alone compiler (NON IDE), I'm getting and error: (mCompiler exited with an error code: -1073741819 Follow by: ##[error] PB Build failed, xxx.exe is not created The last accessed object ...
Do we have possible steps to save the web page (which is loaded in the web browser control) to a PNG or TIFF file in Appeon PB2019 R3 version?...
Hi, I've installed PowerBuilder 2022 R2 build 1892 with all features. I had already installed PowerBuilder 2022 build 1878 before. When i convert an pbx2pbd with C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\PowerBuilder 22.0\IDE\pbx2pbd220.exe, the pbd have the w...
PB 17 Q1: How can I change the tabpage tab color? The part where the writing is? I thought it would be TabBackcolor but that doesn't work.   Q2: Is there a 3rd party UI tool that would globally change colors of objects at runtime? For example, ...
All, I have an executable built using the PowerBuilder 2022 R2 version. When I run this executable on a user's machine, it doesn't start up immediately; it appears as though nothing is running. After leaving the machine idle for some time (say 30 mi...
Hi. Can we disable mouse clicks and keyboard clicks in powerbuilder, if yes, How? Want to achieve below scenario: DIABLE MOUSE AND KEYBOARD CLICKS //DO SOME TASK ENABLE IT AGAIN...
My PowerBuilder 2019 workspace is using git as source control system. I just deleted a datawindow object inside a pbl with right click on object -> delete. If I open a cmd on the folder I can see the object is deleted, but the delete is not commite...
PB Version 2021 build 1509 Hello.. I have a question, I have a screen (window + webbrowser control fullscreen). When I open the window, I load an HTML page (it could be google.com), but it doesn't have focus (specifically in an input field) If I ...
Hello, I started noticing quite some time ago (maybe in PB 12.5, maybe earlier) that PB stopped throwing an error when GetItemX datawindow method is called with row 0. Now, when it happened again in PB2019 R3, I decided to isolate the issue. I creat...
Hi, After installed PB Runtime 22.2.0.3356, i have change the PB application.xml file to point "C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 22.2.0.3356" then launch our application.exe then getting below error, ...
Hi, all. I let users enter text data in multiline edit control, allowing them to include line breaks. Then, I need to import this data in a DW with the importstring method (necessarily). How do I have PB not interpet the line breaks in the data as r...
Hi PB2022 R3 3356 PowerClient incremental build - Everytime I rebuild my application from IDE with Rebuild: Incremental then all .NET calls in the deployed application fails with LOAD FAILURE (-1) generic error in of_createondemand() at row: ll_st...
I migrated our client's application from PowerBuilder 2017 32-bit to PowerBuilder 2022 64-bit, the below code are under Local External Functions declaration in a user object, the below code can successfully run in PowerBuilder 2017 32-bit, but after ...
Hello all; Do you know if this configuration has a signing level that helps with antiviruses? Thanks. Kike  ...
Hi, I migrated to PB 2022 MR 3356 Build, as mentioned in the link https://www.appeon.com/standardsupport/search/view?id=11486.If i have done the code change related to window height in open event, to display the controls properly.   But in fut...


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