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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.   :) ...
  Converting a huge client/Server app to web and mobile app, module by module, I know I have to through a lot.   in our code, frequently required to know the ancestor class name.. ie   /// ClassDefinition cd_windef do cd_windef = FindClassDefi...
As powerbuilder 2017 r3 has integrated GitLab plugin, it is convinent for source control, but how can we manage Git branch as there is long last change parallel with master change, is there any suggestion, so far we have to use tortoisegit clone firs...
Any Plans to support docking Windows in PowerServer?Will be nice to have the feature...
Hello all, some properties of the theme are not working if you open the windows as a document usiing the docking windows style app. for example the listview when i open the sheet as document looks like this: and with a opensheet looks like:  ...
I want to connect PowerBuilder 17 R3 to SSAS Services, I even don't know it is possible or not. Is there any connection driver or something I can use to achieve it? Thanks in advance.....
Hi team, This question is a follow-up from my previous question about how to make a API calls, which is now possible. I received following API string, and assigning it to a string variable. ls_stringbody = '{"addresses":[{"id":2521795,"name":"John...
Hi, We are using GetFileSaveName to get file store to disk. As this is a Windows session it get its one windows session an is not listed as an prosess under our MDI. When running program that use some time before asking for the filename, then the ...
HI all,   I am consuming a rest webservice api which gives me a back an XML reply message , with one of the XML elements a base64 encoded string.   This base64 encoded string is a PDF file , which i need to decode and then write as a PDF file in ...
My company recently updated from PowerBuilder 12.1 to 2017 R2, so we have a lot of legacy code. I have a working connection to a SOAP webservice using the SoapConnection object. I now need to implement TLS 1.2 when connecting to that webservice, but ...
Hello,   I was wondering if there is another way to connect to and populate an Excel spreadsheet other than the way below...   OLEObject lole_xlapp // Create the oleobject variable xlapp lole_xlApp = Create OLEObject // Connect to Excel and che...
Hi Guys, My machine is dying on me so need to put PB11 on a new machine. I have an upgrade license and generated a new key. I'm not having luck when loading a new license key.  Maybe because I generated an alternate license or do I need to install P...
Hi, After installing 2018 Beta, I do as I always have done, I place all my images in a resource folder and add this path to the PB180.EXE path in the registry. The problem is that none of the images are displayed. There are no hard-coded paths for t...
Hello, Trying to use the Autocompile in PB2017 with our automated process but I am stuck on how to point to the workspace when PB is not installed. The following lines are in an orca script that a batch file executes to do a GLV... ;**************...
I can't find any reference on how to do this, so it's either so simple I am missing it.  How can I search a column with edit style ddlb, on the data value (not display value).  Reason for this is. I get the original value for the column and now I nee...
I try to connect DB(informix) with encoding utf8. When i set db connection in client works,but use same code in webservice dosn't work. error is Database locale missmatch. First i try to set dbparms(db_local=bg_bg.utf8) but dosnt works. Second i ...
Hello!  I am making a web app, when I click a button I get through a webservice a string with the data of a pdf encoded in base 64.To be able to show it in the web browser I have to generate the pdf file.I would like this file to be saved in a web s...
Hi team, I'm using PowerBuilder 2017 R3, and completely new to WSDL/SOAP and RESTful webservice API stuff.. .I need some help, don't know where/how to start, or what approach to take for programming this in PB. I'm given two API urls, and some temp...
Dear APPEON Team,   Due to network environment changes, oracle service would be hosted in cloud service with pure IPv6 network access only. We suppose network infrastructure support IPv6, and guarantee end-to-end connection can be established from...
We've recently updated one of our internal testing environments to use ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server to support more recent versions of TLS and have discovered that our application will crash to desktop with an IDMS error in PBSHR170.dll if we SELECT...
Hi,   If we want to build our powerbuilder 2017 R3 application on a build machine, do we need some licence? We dont want to use the PBC apps to compile because we don't want one PBD by PBL. We will have some conflict between the PBD generated on ...


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