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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, My PB developers are using PB 2019 on their laptops with Online licenses that I assigned to them. (I'm the license administrator for our company.) Due to a company policy, external internet connectivity is about to be restricted on their laptops...
Hi everyone!   When trying to sign a .NET assembly in then Sign tab of the project painter (by specifying a new strong name key file) the following message displays after entering the new key file name and clicking OK: "Cannot create a strong name...
Hi all,   My client is interested in migrating their Powerbuilder 5 application to 2017 R3. They want to be able to do a trial first and see how the application works before committing to paying for a license version. As of this post, Appeon's de...
Hi, I have an OLECustomControl object on a window that is connected to the MicroSoft Browser Control. The window is under source control (SVN using SCC interface). I have changed something to the window and checked it in to repository. Now if som...
Hello all,   I am trying to implement the PFC dropdown datawindow search but I can only make it to work in datawindows that have one column only (the dddw). I am not sure why this is not working for datawindows which have multiple columns from whic...
Using PB19 Universal -  Xcode on Mac V10.3 unable to compile/build an iPAD app in Xcode (On mac ). I converted one small app for Mobile(Tablet only), went through the process that creates files for Xcode project. the following two errors: /EonNati...
Hi. My original issue is that OrcaScript in PowerBuilder 2019 (installed from the separate AutoCompile.exe installer), when running on Windows Server 2008 R2, is giving me the error "DataWindow syntax has incorrect release number." While it works fin...
I have a typical master/detail layout in a window where the master datawindow is free form and the detail is a grid. The master datawindow will often have multiple rows with a single row visible at a time. If the user tries to change the active row i...
I am a PB developer from China.I am currently testing appeonmobile(2019).When running PB program from the workspace, it takes about 10 seconds to start and appear the program window. Mobile phone connects via LAN. Is there anything optimized for serv...
Dear experts,   I have an issue when upgrade from PB 7.0 to 2017 R3.   The isssue is about keyboard press, in old system whenever I press SPACE or RIGHT key then no event occur, but in PB 2017 R3 after upgrade by migration tool, then some event o...
Hi, I use PBNI class and  try to call GetItemNumber/GetItemDecimal methods of some transferred to c++ DataWindow object reference/ All works just fine until DataWindow's numeric cell contains NULL value. In this case PB crashed when session->I...
The uploaded picture shows my issue: using the same AND filter but with the two operands exchanged (a AND b the first, b AND a the second), I get different results. I'd like to understand why results differ. Any help appreciated. TIA, Andrea...
I can use the RestClient object in a mobile application. It works fine when I run the application on my computer but I tried it but when I run the application on the mobile phone it doesn't work....
Hello, We recently migrated from PowerBuilder 12.5 to 2017 and now notice that when we print any application reports (datawindows), the ‘Page Range’ section in the ‘Print Dialog’ box  is disabled. We use ‘PFC_Print’ function for the print and this wa...
Hello Everyone,  We noticed that after we deployed a file DeployLog_(Datetime).txt has been created. There are all of the error that shows us the error report. But, after them, there are others that we don't know what means.  Example: 09. Source F...
  Hi everyone, We are working on implementing a process to handle the Session Timeout. We got a few unexpected "Session expired". Therefore, we want to clarify what means Session Timeout. Is the session timeout the time idle and it resets when the ...
We had installed in our machines PowerBuilder R3 1880, PowerServer R3 1880, and PowerServer Toolkit R3 1880. Also, we had installed PowerServer R3 1858 in our test and production server (this is the latest version for TESTING FOR WORKGROUP). We noti...
Hi all, I have two tasks at hand for which I need your input and/or advice: 1 - I have an application that was built in Powerbuilder 5/32 bit. (Yes, PB 5) with a back-end of Oracle 8i/32bit database. In the PB IDE database DB painter, I got drivers...
Hi, Can you help about a how i can print a ole object using a  NativePDF! , i am using the ole object for use a PDF viewer , and the i need print it with a distiller PDF like NativePDF. Can you you help me please? Thanks...
I just converted a PB12.5 app to PB2019 and there's an issue with GIF images on tabs (not on a tab page, on the tab next to the text). GIFs have transparent pixels showing as black. PNGs work fine. IDE shows them fine, but running from IDE or Compil...


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