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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.   :) ...
PB 2022 1900 Our application can run as a service to process print jobs.  When this service first starts up it gets a list of valid printers so when the user schedules it we only show them the printers that are setup on that machine.  All this works...
PS 2022R2 I'm 99% sure i had a transaction timeout.  I was not able to see it in the event viewer/log however.  Is it logged?  I would expect it to log when a database transaction is killed due to timeout regardless of the log leve.   The time out...
Hi All,          Is it possible to open a website from regular PowerBuilder Classic application? I experimented  using the OpenUrl( "https://appeon.com" ) by creating a menu tap and using the the example I stated earlier and it did not. I even get...
I found a bug in PowerBuilder (specifically filtering a large number of rows in a datawindowchild) that will eat up memory and eventually crash PowerBuilder. How do I report it? I have a sample app that shows how filtering increases memory usage by h...
Hi Team,      I Migrated the application from PB21 to PB2022 R3. Now, I created the Power server project and deployed the Project successfully. when I try to run the Project, I'm getting the ErrorMessage: "ORA-01008: not all variables bound". Oracl...
QUESTION:  With the recent PowerBuilder 2022 R2 update of ADO.NET, is PowerBuilder now enforcing rules that were not previously enforced?   What is described below WAS NOT a problem with PowerBuilder 2022 R1...but with the release of PowerBuilder 2...
PowerBuilder 2022 GA 1892, SQL Server Our web application is written in C# and to run reports, we link out to a non-visual PowerBuilder app that returns NativePDF blobs for presentation in the browser. We want to be able to run the web application ...
Greetings, I utilized SMTPClient and added email functionality.  PB 2022 R2 Everything works fine when testing or debugging, but it doesn’t work using an executable file. All support dll’s are in place, I fully migrate, regenerate, and rebuild the...
Hi,   I am digesting how to make web api run on linux. Referring to this link https://docs.appeon.com/ps2022r2/Running_Web_APIs_with_Kestrel.html I understand that, 1) Copy all files from net6.0 folder to linux server 2) Run this  ServerAPIs.exe ...
Hi, I have an incidence, I have a datawindow that in the resize event I modify the width of some rectangles to make them the size of the dw (I use them as header and I want them to be always seen the full size of the window), when the window is enla...
Hi Team, Good day! We have a powerclient application successfully running in PB R2 version in all the clients. Recently we have migrated to PB R3 runtime : 2.2.0.3289  and few clients getting the error " "Not enogh memory to execute the program" Er...
Hello, I am using PB2022 R3 and have a datawindow with a stored procedure as the source. When I do a retrieve on the datawindow it crashes PowerBuilder. The call to the stored procedure is:   EXECUTE ESS9982 3158069, "2020-01-01" , "@", 0 , "@" , ...
Web browser object provided in PowerBuilderI am using it.The page to which you go when you call the web page and then click the buttonI want to get a url, but when implementing it using the existing OLE method, I used the Geturl function.Is there any...
Hello,   I migrated an application from PB 2017 to PB 2022 and I observed a malfunction with the SyntaxfromSQL function. In PB 2017 the dw generated had updateable capability and the columns was in edit mode with tabsequence > 0 In PB 2022 the...
Hi,   I was trying to migrate the application from 2019R2 build 2353 to 2019R3 with build 2803. When I was adding the target then existing pbl are not getting migrated without pbwsclient.pbd. and If I remove the pbwsclient.pbd from the library th...
For what it's worth, I've asked ChatGPT to write PowerBuilder code for a few relatively simple functions.  The results were good, often giving me better ways to approach a problem.  Amazing stuff this AI....
I am pretty sure I saw somewhere in the documentation a list of features that we shouldn't use in background threads. Now I can't find it. I have a multi-threaded C++ app that calls PB code using PBNI. For some reason if it is processing more than o...
Hi,   Since 2021,our organization has been using Power Builder 2021. As we are transition to new machine, we are not able to install PowerBuilder 2021. With bootstrap process, we don't have option to select Power builder 2021 version to download a...
Dear everyone,    I am having an issue creating a IQ db connection from our application. I do not wish to use ODBC connection (I tried it's working fine).  On my computer and user computer SAP IQ Client Suite 16.0 sp08 (64-bits) is installed. My P...
Hi, We have a few large reports in our application. I am looking to include paging so the data in these reports is retrieved on-demand. Would  Retrieve.AsNeeded would be a solution for this? (Correct me if I am wrong). Looking at the documentation ...


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