1. Adrian Galvan
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Monday, 9 December 2019 16:30 PM UTC

Hi PB Community!

We were very excited about themes so we could give our application a new look and feel, so went ahead and invested about a week into the migration of our ERP software from PB 2017 R3 to 2019 GA.

We tested our ERP software PB 2019 GA and compiled with different settings.

This is what we found so far.

When running the application within the IDE everything runs very smoothly. We didn’t come across too many problems in our migration. A couple of objects that gave false errors about NVO not existing when they did and checking those objects the objects were migrated correctly.

Themes worked very nicely in the IDE we noticed a very small lag in the drawing of windows with lots of objects and datawindows displayed data smoothly with some lags also but nothing that worried us too much.

As soon as we compiled the application to executable (32bit and 64bit) we began to see problems. When running the application with the runtimes it takes for ever to display windows, it felt like we were running a 286 CPU. It was very slow. Simple 4 column datawindows with 7K rows were unmanageable, a simple row focus change will take several seconds.

We changed the way we called themes, changed the folders, moved the DLL’s to the same folder as the application among other things. We tested in several Virtual Machines with different settings and nothing helped too much. We found it way too unstable and slow for production. We hope a MR will alleviate the performance so we can take advantage of the new feature that we have been long waiting for.

We have read that several people have had similar experiences. Will there be a MR that might address these problems in the near future?

Adrian Galvan Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 9 December 2019 18:26 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

Hi Roland, 

We tested it with the DLL's in the same directory and we didn't see much change.

Regards,

Adrian

 

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  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Monday, 9 December 2019 18:33 PM UTC
In that case, you have something very strange going on that is not what most customers experience. So please work with our support team to open a support ticket and provide reproducible test case. https://www.appeon.com/standardsupport/newbug
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 9 December 2019 18:06 PM UTC
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  3. # 2

The issue Roland mentions has been fixed in PowerBuilder 2019 R2 as well as other enhancements.  Can you do a test with the beta version of PowerBuilder 2019 R2 and let us know if it still has issues?  You can request beta from the product management team by emailing product@appeon.com and most likely they would approve your request.

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  1. Adrian Galvan
  2. Monday, 9 December 2019 18:29 PM UTC
HI Armeen,

We got a copy of version of R2 and set it up in a VM with no luck, I don't know if we have the latest version of R2, I’ll go ahead and send an email.



We are more then willing to setup a VM so you can test drive what we are seeing with our code.



Regards,

Adrian
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  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Monday, 9 December 2019 18:39 PM UTC
Please email our product management team to make sure you have the latest version of the beta, and then if the problem still persists please work with our support team to reproduce the issue. Besides trying to come up with a workaround, we would do our best to make a fix in PowerBuilder 2019 R2 since it is scheduled to release in March 2020.
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Roland Smith Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 9 December 2019 17:39 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 3

We had extreme slowness in an app that was not using themes. It was because we didn't include pbtheme190.dll or pbjson190.dll with the exe's runtime.

 

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  1. Michael Kramer
  2. Monday, 9 December 2019 17:45 PM UTC
Agree > Adrian, I recommend you verify that both of these DLL files are actually part of your app deploy.
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