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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.   :) ...
I need the ODBC Driver for SQL Server so I can use encryption TLS 1.2.  I've encountered two problems with inserting and updating datawindows.  I have tables and columns where there is a column on a table that cannot be null but has a database defau...
We are testing the migration from PB 12.6 to 2017 R2 and are having a lot of trouble printing reports.  The printers seem to randomly print crap pages most often after  some or all of the report has printed.  It is definitely a show stopper for the m...
When using the the method SymmetricEncrypt, the blob that is returned is in chinese. I have put the following script in the clicked event and show the result in the textobject st_1: Blob lblb_dataBlob lblb_keyBlob lblb_ivBlob lblb_encrypt lblb_dat...
I was experimenting with the Git integration in PowerBuilder 2017 R3 and came across a few issues that I hope more experienced folks can answer. In case it matters, we tested with GitLab as the Git provider: 1. Is there support for connecting to var...
Does anyone know what DLLs need to be deployed to support the CrypterObject?  I am getting a run-time error "Unresolvable external crypterobject when linking reference error when instantiating the object.  No issue when running from the IDE....
Since years there is one annoying thing for me: What is the best practice to find the name of a pbl which contains a certain object. The problem: I have a project with 40-50 pbls. I want to know where I can find the object "w_user" because I want ...
Hi According to https://community.appeon.com/index.php/blogs/recent-blogs/enhanced-source-code-controlfor-pb2017-r2-r3 the pbg files will go away when using git and svn (what we currently do with PB2017 R2) How should 3rd party build tools that mak...
We have several apps running on appeon workspace with no problem. Scenerio: We created a desktop application which uses a Richtextedit control and saves the contents to a database table whose column is a blob. Works fine in saving and retrieving o...
If you use rich text in your applications and are on 12.X and are thinking about upgrading to 2017, I would seriously reconsider. The regression bugs introduced with the built-in rich text control are bad enough to render the control useless for us. ...
When i migrate from version 7 to version 2017 r3. The character font of Japan  is error . I think when i migrate:UTF 16  .How  are fix it? ...
Hello All, Any one have manage to integrate a PowerBuilder Application with CyberArk using th CyberArk API The information and documentation on the CyberArk DLL is really poor so if some one have manage to integrate it will be great. The only help...
   hi    How can I modify my PowerServer Mobile Application's AndroidManifest.xml file? ...
Is there anything special regarding using the Table Blob control?  The "How to's" that I can find don't seem to work.  I get the blob displayed sometimes but the cursor goes into a continual wait state (circle of death).  Using MySQL, latest PB, and...
Hi Guys   how can I configure my SVN Source Control system in order to mantain an environement with several targets sharing a lot of libraries? Suppose to have just 2 targets If I add to source control the second target to the same URL of the fir...
Good Morning Everyone,  We are thinking about developing an app for Android Devices in Powerbuilder. We 've never developed in Android, so for us is easier to do it in PB.  The App just has to read a barcode, and 2/3 manual imputs.  Is this possib...
Excuse my ignorance but I am green in this mobile app world. Is it possible to have two transaction object connected in an mobile app? I will be connecting to QRemote (Quickbooks Driver) and SQLAnyWhere 17. Could you please show me a sample code o...
I am in the process of migrating our SVN repositories to the Native SVN format of PB2017. As a test, I saved an existing application to the new repository. Then I used Connect to Workspace, to simulate what my co-workers would do in order to work on...
When I export the DataWindow using function SaveAsFormattedText in excel format, Character "00", "01" is exported as 0,1 respectively (as Integer). Please suggest the solution for exporting the data from DataWindow to excel  without losing format. ...
Hi, I am currently using ImportFile to import XML files in a datawindow. (PB 10.5) I am using a template that I created. So far it works well except when I encounter same tag elements   I attached a test file because the xml is removed from this ...
I am writing and app with PB17 and PowerServer. The app connects to Quickbooks database via QODBC. In the IDE of Powerbuilder all the datawindows worked perfect; Retrieving the data from QB database. Thru IDE of powerbuilder 17 I can connect with QB ...


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