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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 ,   I am working with MS sql 2008 ( and above ) with pb12.5 ( and now will be 2017 ) classic , Windows 7 , 10 (64 bit , 32 bit machines Why the datawindow is saved to the  data base with the max length for each field full with spaces ? ...
I've been struggling trying to create a new program in PowerBuilder 2017 - mostly because of a waterfall affect of migrating my old PFC libraries.  One corrupted object breaks another, and another, and nothing is working.  Is there any place I ca...
Can check out fine, but when I try to check things back in the OK button is disabled. Anybody with any suggestions? b  r  a  d ...
Greetings All.  We recently upgraded to PB2017 from PB12.6.  We are having issues with pbnismtp.  I created a new library and imported the pbnismtp126.pbx file and compiled a pbd.  I added the new pbd and the pbx file to the working directory of the ...
Hello, we try to read (larger) files with the filereadex function into a blob. Our application crashes with a "Bad runtime function reference" error. I tried with around 500 files and found 5 files with this error.  I also found this bug report...
This article is written in Google Translator.. :) Hi,  I have been using PB10.5, and I am currently reviewing the migration to PB2017. PB2017 provides two options for the deploy option. (for x86 / x64) Are there differences in performance...
When will appeon web will support powerbuilder 2017 for deployment ...
AEM has an active transactions screen that displays the session id, transaction id, and duration.  I need to be able to get this information from within PB and web services call. Unless i am missing something, it doesn't appear that this is avail...
I was looking through the product manuals library for Appeon and hoping to find a document with some of your I expect hard-learned lessons on best practices for Appeon Web apps with lots of users, but didn't find anything. (I expect to have thous...
Hi, I am trying to call a web service from a shared object in my PowerBuilder application. It seems that the shared object cannot find the web service proxy dll, I get error message "Error calling method of a PBNI object" when calling the proxy. W...
Helow ?How do i change the frame menu's font size headers ( not the drop down  menu itmes )  the drop down font size is controlled by the menu painter   thanks       ...
Hello, I have followed Bruce Armstrong's detailed steps to configure GitHub as my version control with PB 12.5.2.  I just had a few questions which I posted on my forum here - http://pbgeeks.com/forums/topic/powerbuilder-github/ 1. How c...
HI - our PB 12.6 app is currently running on SQL Anywhere V16 and we are considering a move to PostGresql or MariaDB for the future with PB2017 Can anyone comment on usability and stability of PB2017 with MariaDB or PostgreSQL? ...
I see on the website that PB 2017 isn't shown to work on Windows XP. I just tried installing my app, compiled with PB 2017, on an old XP machine and it was fine. Unfortunately because of our niche market we have a lot of users who hang on to old ...
This seems to be related to some other reports, and is also something I complained about (without the following details) during the beta period. My PDFs created with the new NativePDF method look fine, except the font in them that is bold is a bit...
Hi experts, How can I deploy Powerserver on a shared windows server where I can not run the setup file and have access thru Plesk control panel only ? Kindly advise. Regards DK Batra ...
Where can i get Sybase Datawindow PS driver - Acrobat Distiller for generating PDF files from powerbuilder. ...
We've got a few applications, and one common theme with all of them is that they all have ToolbarText set to false and ToolbarTips set to true by default. If I use this code in a MDIHelp! window, the toolbartext will enable immediately: app...
I migrated from 12.5 to PB2017. One window is read only in PB2017. All the checkboxes, buttons and everything are disabled. I migrated the pbls again but no luck. Can anypne suggest a solution? ...
Since the app is still ultimately running on Windows, why couldn't a .CHM file be bundled with what gets downloaded and accessed directly? Our app actually doesn't use ShowHelp, because of some aspects that we don't love about how it w...


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