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Resolved Special Characters in DW Parameter entry fields

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  1. William Grafton
    William Grafton
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:34 PM UTC

I have a question that I need some assistance solving.

An application I am working on requires that the PowerBuilder Datawindow argument entry window is popped up requiring the user to enter the parameters for the retrieval process.

One of the parameters is a string, however, the string entry field does not accept special characters such as ! (Exclamation).

Is there a setting or definition field somewhere in the IDE that will allow this character to be entered as part of the string in this field.

Thank you

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Olan Knight
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  1. Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:12 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Interesting!


The other special characters appear but "!" does not.
Single quotes work, double quotes do not.

Even inside quotes the BANG (!) will not display. Something about SHIFT-1 simply does not work when providing manual input to a string field in a DW.
I wonder if it is because SHIFT-1 has been redirected, usually to HELP.


Later -

Olan

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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 08:41 AM UTC
I think you should open support ticket.

As workaround I think the only way is to write your own Dialog. :-(
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Mark Goldsmith
  1. Mark Goldsmith
  2. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:22 PM UTC
Yes, very interesting. One would think after all the iterations of PowerBuilder over the last 30 years someone would have raised this issue before and maybe they have, but I don't recall it ever being mentioned. Then again...and not to minimize your issue William...maybe there hasn't been much need, if any, to use the exclamation/ bang or double-quote characters when specifying retrieval arguments. The oldest version of PB I can quickly spin up is PB8 and those characters can't be entered in that version either.



Also thought maybe you could get around it by typing the ASCII codes (ALT+0033 and ALT+0034 respectively) but they don't work either.
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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:58 PM UTC
that is such an ugly screen that i believe most developers have written their own instead of using that default one.
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