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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...
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Has anyone accessed datastore objects from C++ using PBNI? The help has small snippets for each function but nothing that explains the entire process....
I am trying to publish from Snapdevelop in a docker container To clarify the query and not make it extensive writing ; I am sending a word file with images and the respective queries.THAN YOU ...-...
We're having an issue with a couple users running our application on a 2022 Remote Desktop Session Host where we have a datawindow for reports that gets determined at runtime, but when the report is displayed, the datawindow does not expand to fill t...
Morning all   using pb2023 windows 10   I need to check whether the timestamp or modified date is newer or older than another file for example these two files c:\myfiles\data1.txt  \\server\myfiles\data1..txt How would i do this within powerbu...

window function

PB2023 R3 Windows 10 Hi All I am having an issue where when I edit or create a window function the fields that allow you to name the function or sett the return value or arguments are now now not showing   I have tried removing the layout from th...
PB 2022 Does anyone know how I can determine if a user selected an attachment within an email to drag/drop using OLE?   When I get notified of the drop I loop through all the selected email items using .ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count.  Once I have ...
Hi, I have an old 32-bit application that I want to move to the cloud (currently thinking of AWS). I've done some research on my own, which suggested tools like Power Server, but that isn't available on PB9. Would I have to upgrade to PB12 first befo...
I'm working on the Appeon PB training and I am supposed to see several files in the directory under Demos folder that I unzipped.  According to the training video I'm supposed to see the files to create the app but  instead I see just the exe.   What...
Hello everyone, I need to integrate a foreign modul which is available as an ocx. After having registered this ocx I can insert it in PB as an OLE-object. It´s running fine but when closing the window which contains the OLE object my app (or PB) is ...
The version information will display in the Windows property, but how does one access this to display it in a Power Builder window? Using the GetContextService for the ContextInformation returns version information for Power Builder itself and not th...
ive been searching for more info on docking windows under the mdi frame. It is my understanding that there was an example project that came with pb2017. Is there a way I can get this. We are already on 2023. all im trying to do is have two windows, ...
Hello,Some time ago there was a feature in the roadmap to export to excel with format,Currently there is no such feature in the roadmap, has it been cancelled, in which version is it planned to be released to production?Best regards...
When i try to install our application which has been migrated to PB2022 R3.i am getting below error.     How to proceed with this.   Kindly provide the suggestions for this.    ...
Hello, We're trying to migrate our PB2021 App to PB2022. I'm noticing an issue while saving a Composite Report with multiple Nested DWs as a PDF. With PB2021, there was a line break coming after a DW with Grouped Rows with Summary while with PB 2022...
Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any help .   We developed appeon application that generates xml for filing tax forms. Thay displays nicely using the new and latest webrowser2.  We discoverd a sytly sheet that can be used with our xml but ...
Hello Here's an interesting seemingly simple question: Is the IP address 172.18.13.127 between 172.17.0.0 and 172.19.0.0  ?   (note the comparison values can change) more generally stated is IP address1 between IP address2 and IP address3 An IP a...
Is it possible to dynamically change the datawindow syntax for a nested report in the group header datawindow?  I have a header and footer on a nested report.  I want to be able to assign the datawindow syntax to the nested report at runtime.  I am ...
I was at PowerBuilder Version 2022 Build 1878 when we received the update about that there was a vulnerability when using ADO.NET database connection in a newer update.  I stayed at my current version.  I did not perform a PowerBuilder update until n...
PB 2022 1900 We recently changed our Emailing from MAPI to use Outlook OLE instead.  This has been working great but every so often we get a customer calling in reporting a throwable error during the send operation ("Error accessing external object ...
I'm on the latest and greatest version of PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356. I'm attempting to demo the pbtutor application running in the PowerServer environment. I created a new PowerServer object in the pbtutor.pbl. I'm literally trying to assign ...


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