Discussions tagged PowerBuilder

We have existing processes to export something to excel using OLE and Excel VBA commands, which do their job, and then exit. We have a call at the end to an external function EndTask to kill the excel.exe process for these. We're developing a new pr...
We have a PowerBuilder 12.5 application that runs against Oracle 12 and Oracle 19c. DBA's have noticed excessive queries against SYS.ALL_SYNONYMS.  I understand that these queries have been a part of PowerBuilder for some time, and it seems they occ...
Chinese characters couldn't be displayed when querying a DB2 table in PowerBuilder. Could someone help on this? Thanks.  It could be displayed when querying in DB2 command windows....
Hi,I am facing vertical text getting shifted from their place issue due to PBESCAPEMENTMODE in the psr files.Can anyone help on 1) How I can check what values are set for PBESCAPEMENTMODE for any PSRs files. 2) How to set value of PBESCAPEMENTMODE ...
Hello All, I have implemented an automated compile process for our application using the PBAutoBuild220.exe. The question I have is in the "Merging" portion of the compiling process. We are currently using TFS for source control in PB. Before I am c...
Hi all, While upgrading a legacy application from PB17R3 to PB2022R3 I run into a reproducible issue with calling an MSSQL stored procedure which has an integer output parameter.The issue is that when the proc's output parameter is null, PB17R3 corr...
Hello We are having an issue with our desktop application crashing only in VMware when the User's have a long samAccountName (18 or more characters). Same user's are able to run the same App in Citrix or Desktop without any issues. Rest of the user...
Not a question...  If you are converting from SQL Anywhere to SQL Server, be aware that Powerbuilder and SQL Server don't communicate dates well. If you have a date parameter you are passing in SQL, embedded or in a datawindow/datastore like so:  ...
Okay, hopefully I can explain this correct enough that it makes sense.   TL/DR: Datawindow with multiple rows doesn't always show the DisplayColumn because of the where clause in the DDDW query. We have a datawindow that returns multiple rows. I...
PB 2022 I am writing code to support Copy/Paste of Files to my application.  I use the following to get the information. IF guOS.OpenClipboard(0) THEN   lptr = guOS.GetClipboardData(15)   lsFile = Space( liAllocate )   liFiles = guOS.DragQueryFile(...
Hi all   I wonder if I'm able to do so....   I have two identical datawindow, dw_1 and dw_2. Both shows different columns, but select statement is the same. dw_1 only have one row, multiple row is not allowed here, but for dw_2, multiple row is ...
Hi all, My customer reported an issue today with merging dw's and pdf's.  In the main window, he opens a salesorder with 100 workorders, then selects the Merge Each radio button and clicks Merge on the toolbar.  The merge function loops through each...
Hi Folks  Environment : PB 2022 R3 64 bit Here is the sample code snippet where  the application crashed in 64 bit but not in the 32 bit but if I change the variable type Long to LongPtr or LongLong ,  the application does not crash. confusion is...
Hello, We go from MicrosoftWebBrowser (PB17) to WebBrowser (PB22).What will this code look like with new objects? 1. ls_value = ole_1.Object.Document.getElementByID('mmm').value 2. ole_ilink = ole_1.Object.Document.ActiveElement 3. ole_1.Object.D...
Does anyone use Microsoft Always Encrypted for SQL databases and have a successful integration with a Powerbuilder 2021 or 2022 application?We've been requested to encrypt some data and we're trying to figure out possible solutions for a mixed Powerb...
  **EDITED TO CLARIFY PREVIOUS SUPPORT, NOT FUTURE SUPPORT** Is Powerbuilder 2021 supported for the new MSOLEDBSQL 18.7.2 drivers released on April 9th this year? Has anyone updated to the newest 18.* driver and had success with existing applicati...
Any advise on searching a text with wildcard characters in all libraries? Similarly replacing same text with new string in all libraries? ...
Hello Appeon Support,   We have a large thick-client PowerBuilder application, written many years ago, that our Security Team have raised a risk against.   The risk is “DLL Hijacking”   This application is built and deployed as 1 x Exe + numero...
PowerBuilder 2019 2728 I am trying to work out exactly which bit(s) of code are slow for a particular customer. I turned on tracing in code for a particular routine, and after a couple of weeks have lots of PBP files. However when I try to open any ...
A new datawindow in our PB2022 application (22.2.0.3289) has a button on it. I have never used a datawindow button before. For several of my users clicking the same button on the same row twice in a row crashes the program. The crash usually occurs i...
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