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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, Friend   I have this error since  app movil only with powerserver 2020; i am using function today() ,   try to save 2020/04/31  but this 2020/08/31; only from the cell phone       thanksm...
We are in the process of moving PowerBuilder to a new server. We have to test PB on the new server before removing PB from the old server. Can I use the license on both PB instances? Or is it possible to use the free trail on the new server before us...
Hi, I know that different PB versions in the past were installed separately and that you could keep two (or more) versions installed side-by-side. Just confirming whether the new release of 2019 is separate from 2017 R2 so that I can install and tes...
One quick question on generating reports out of DDLB values. I have a requirement of adding DDLB values to an existing report and these values are coming from a DW. I have followed these steps: In the design mode of that particular report, in the da...
I am using the CrypterObject to encrypt some data. I can encrypt and decrypt within the same .exe just fine. I built a second program to encrypt the same (unencrypted) data -- but the two programs are encrypting the same data completely differently e...
Ive been building a application that compares snapshots of tables, and have the code down to isolate the changes - now I need to highlight the background of the changed cells in a grid datawindow. I am flagging the changed columns by setting the ite...
I develop in pb 12.5 and deploy in Appeon 2015 build 0366 64 bit This line:  li_rc = adoConnection.ConnectToNewObject("ADODB.Connection") work god in power builder, but dont work in appeon,show this message "Could not connec to object"   Please ...
Hi Guys I'm getting a not so random crash from our newly migrated application to pb2017r3 as follows: Faulting application name: tstravel.exe, version: 5.0.17.0, time stamp: 0x5df05d07Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.24545, t...
I need to be able to set an attribute into a cell (row+column) in a grid datawindow which can be used to highlight or otherwise change the appearance of that cell by means of a datawindow expressions - and which can be read out by a program exporting...
I am wondering if I can run a Web application on a browser instead of running it as an IWA? If so, how?   Thanks!...
I am using datawindow control titles for the first time and I notice that I get a pale blue background and a fain almost unreadable text for the title.   Is there a way to change the color and or fond characteristics of a datawindow control's title?...
I have a DataWindow Object on a Window that switches between two DataWindows via DataObject = "d_...".  Each DataWindow has at least one column with a Validation Expression.  I have no issues running the application in executable/desktop form.  Once...
We have migrated from PB 10.2 to 2019 R2. In our earlier version we  do have only .xls export option of DW to the user. Now I have added the .XLSX  option to the export the file as excel format with '.xlsx' extension  with this syntax "DW.SaveAs( ls_...
Hi, Can someone please help me with adding a ddlb to an existing dw? I have added a column in the table in the backend that takes numbers(0,1,2...). In the frontend, i have made changes from Design -> DataSource -> selected the column. These ...
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Hi Is there any way to have an expression in a Datawindow refer to itself by name (or column number)? For example if I want to have editable columns be underlined, I could use this code in its border expression. if( long( describe( '.TabSe...
Hi, All of our executables built using PB 2019 are missing application icons.  Could you let us know how to resolve this issue? I reviewed relevant Q&A but couldn't find satisfactory answer.    I will really appreciate your help.   Thanks S...
Here is my code. The block in red  returns 1 (success code) in development  and also in the exe when deployed on  a machine which has PowerBuilder 2017 R3 installed   But when attempting to run this on a user machine without PowerBuilder, it return...
Good Tuesday morning I need to find out how I can run my web application's iwarunner.exe on an iPad? I have the exe downloaded from webserverIP/application_name/iwarunner.html However, from I can see online, this exe can not run on iOS as it's a M...
Hi All, In PB2017 I have set the edit mask property of a decimal field as ###.00 in my data object. Also I have set the format as ###.00 for that field in the data object. But when some value such as 461.50 is coming for that field , somehow it is g...


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