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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 10 months ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Hi guys / girls,
I know I'm lots of times "bitter" towards Appeon, but that's simply because I'm an old powerbuilder developer who's gone through hell for lots of years with Powerbuilder and shitty support.
I'd like to request you all to upvote thi...
Hello,
We are currently using third party solutions to use some of our PowerBuilder apps as a service in Windows.
However, we are in the middle of a Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2022 migration and we struggle to get one them running ok.
T...
Tip about 64bit external function calls
- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Steen Jakobsen replied 2 years ago
I've been beta testing PB 2022 and 64bit.
The IDE can Debug/Run your app in 64bit mode. This makes it much easier to test external function declarations.
I have found that it is less forgiving if you use the wrong datatype. I had to update half of ...
Whats your TOP IDE change - if you could only have 1 change to the IDE
- Misc
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
I generally will put up with IDE problems if i have to choose between IDE fixes and runtime fixes/enhancements. I think we have all been conditioned to accept that from Sybase/SAP.
Now that Appeon is working on enhancements to the IDE, I was thinki...
My PowerBuilder blog, Anvil of Time, is being resurrected. I'm in the process of updating/validating all the previous posts there and will be adding new content soon.
Stay tuned.
My initial findings regarding performance of pb2022 (60% faster)
- Misc
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
Hi,
PB2022 runs SIGNIFICANTLY faster than PB2019R3
We have made a computation index for our application to measure the performance of the machine running it so our customers knows what to expect from our application.
This test include all ki...
Hi - Our team has been working on a unit testing framework for Powerbuilder. We originally looked at PBUnit but found it to be clunky and hadn't been updated in years - so we decided to build our own. Before working on perhaps getting it generalize...
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PowerBuilder has an unknown number of runtime options that are set by deploying pb.ini with the exe. I say unknown because none of them are in the help file, all public knowledge is in the user forums.
Forum comments I have seen say to put pb.ini in...
Full-Featured Regular Expression NVO for PB
- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Berka Frenfert replied 2 years ago
I just wanted to share something I created. I have been using the venerable PBREGEXP from https://www.nika-soft.com/download/ for regular expression replacements etc., but yesterday I hit a bad bug in one use of it (I was trying to remove a large sec...
Hello,
Surprise. PB 2019 R3 Customer Beta launched.
2019 R3 MR 2703 Is Available!
- Misc
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
FYI - The anticipated Maintenance Release for PB 2019 R3 is now available in the Downloads Center.
Thank you, Appeon!
Is there an updated list of the Bug Fixes/Changes included in MR 2703?
Theme: Resize area is incredibly small
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- James Levin replied 2 years ago
Hello,
we have recently started using themes and are wondering if there is any option to make the resize area bigger.
Resizing at the corners is nearly impossible. Resizing at the sides is difficult.
Our margin is 1px which looks nice.
The only...
PB2022 wau.. take a look at this: New PDFBuilder objects (beta feature)
- Advice
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I just now discovered the new feature in the public online docs.
I think AWESOME :-)
New PDFBuilder objects (beta feature) - - What's New (appeon.com)
I have the PDF's for the following PFC documentation:
PFC Library Object Reference, Part 1 (608 pages, dated 2001)
PFC Library Object Reference, Part 2 (908 pages, dated 2001)
PFC Library User's Guide (310 pages, dated 2003)
These pubs are ad...
Tip for pasting code and not losing white space and indentation.
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
It took me a while also before I realized that this option existed, so I just wanted to share this information.
regards.
Need for documentation on all existing PB.INI entries
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Simone Olianti replied 3 years ago
Hi,
I've created a ticket, asking Appeon for clear documentation on valid PB.INI entries: https://www.appeon.com/standardsupport/search/view?id=7750 That might take a while though.
So what I've done, is create a little Google-Site (you may laugh, m...
The BLEAK future of PowerBuilder and what could be done about it
- Misc
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Matt Balent replied 9 months ago
Just sharing a few concerns about the bleak future of PowerBuilder here and what could be done about it...
We all know PowerBuilder apps work like a rock - surviving major O/S upgrades (even without any PB upgrades) - and can last 20 years, 50 years...
Dark Theme for PowerBuilder IDE?
- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Would Appeon provide a dark theme for the PowerBuilder IDE? My eye hurts with all this bright white background!
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