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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.   :) ...
Hi All Appeon Experts, We have been developing Desktop Apps for a significant number of years and have started developing Appeon Mobile Apps to compliment these over the last 2-3 years.  To date our Deskptop and Mobile App codebase have been kept in...
Hi Guys  anyone has already experienced a send tweet ?  Thanks...
Hello, how Powerbuilder desides, in which menu to display list of opened sheets? We have MDI application with a standard menu (File, Actions, Window, Help). List of opened sheets was in menu Window. We added one item to the right of the menu (File,...
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Hi.   I've managed to create a Git repo in Azure Devops and have pushed all my source to it. It's still in testing, but I want to apply this to the whole team. But we're using DevOps as our scrum tool, and we create user stories and tasks for all...
Hi All, We are considering to go the Powerserver web/mobile i.e to have our desktop application on web / mobile. Our fears are if the following related codes will continue to run; 1. Excel oleobject (We depend on the object very much) 2. Some dll...
Is there a 64-bit version of pborca.lib? I am using PowerBuilder 2017 (the DLLs all have "170" in the name) and the pborca.lib in the ORCA SDK directory is a 32-bit library. ...
Hi Everyone, By performing a test, I realized that the function FindRequired for DataWindows has different behavior in Powerbuilder classic than Appeon WEB when it comes to RadioButtons. First, RadioButtons do not allow the required property to turn...
Hi there   I use the tab control in quite a few of my applications - I am currently running 2017 R2 I normally set the background of each tab to a different colour and set the tab part the same colour.  PLease see the attached picture I am sure I...
i have a pb app runing on windows server2008 R2 64bit when i use the PB "RUN" function it returns 1 but nothing is run when debugging and copying the run string parameter to cmd prompt of server it runs successfully i even made the app create a ba...
hi, I am new to PB and trying to see if I can get some answers to the pretty basic questions. I have a requirement to a add value to the existing dropdown list of values. I am not sure if this is hard coded in the code or the value driven from DB. C...
Hi, About a year ago I asked about possibility of using RESTful web services in Mobile Apps/PowerServer. At that time Chris said that:"The new RESTful web services in PB2017R2 are not supported in PowerServer Web/Mobile.Support for RESTful web serv...
I'm trying to install the 1880 update for PB, but the installer is telling me it can't determine the version of PB.  What is needed for it to move past this.  ...
Hi Guru Pbd are interpreted code DLL are c-compiled code A simple question: What are the reasons why I should choose a compile in "machine code" and not in "PCode", or vice versa. (in addition to DLL will execute script code faster ) thank you...
We have about 4 App deployed to Appeon PowerServer 2017 Build 1756.00 working with iOS and Android. Everything was working perfect, until Appeon WorkSpace released a new version of Workspace into Apple Store(I do not want to be disrespectful. I do n...
(PB 2017 R3 build 1858 / Windows 10 ) From an httpclient object I receive JSON strings  that I need to parse.  They may be quite complicated with deeply nested structures. My first problem is to parse NULL values. My preliminary code looks like th...
As per someone's advice here I'm using the StripRTF() datawindow function to display plain text values from a RichText source. This works fine in my development environment, but in a deployed application this column is blank. I immediately thought th...
PB 2017 R3 1858 Windows 10/64b I refer to the local help browser triggered by F1 from Powerbuilder classic IDE. When clicking on hyperlinks on topics new to this version of PB, I get the error message: "Cannot connect to this page check if the we...
This is true on multiple developer machines here where PB 2017 R3 Universal has been installed, yet I've not been able to find anyone else mentioning it here on the forums. (Admittedly, the search terms aren't very selective.) All incoming links int...
Hello, I have a char(2000) column in a datawindow that uses the EditMask edit style with an edit mask of 2000 'X's. However, I cannot enter more than 255 characters in it. I tried this in PB12.5 and PB17r3. I could not find any information about a l...


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