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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 was reading the help files for PowerBuilder R3 on SOAP clients and it says we can use the EasySoap client or the .NET SOAP client. Is this correct? If we use the .NET SOAP client, will it work for both 32 and 64 bit versions of our PowerBuilder app...
Hello, We migrated our PB 10.5 based application to PB 2017 R3 recently.  No issues were reported while compiling that application in 2017R3.  ON implementation we started receiving two complaints from our client. 1.  The application is slower.   W...
I am posting a request to an API from a server in Greece. The content reply header is :application/json; charset=windows-1253 When trying to get the data with GetResponseBody all I get is  two unreadable characters. I have tried using UTF-8 and AN...
Hi, Greetings! The Close event of the application is not triggering if the application is closed directly by closing tab/browser while using Chrome , but the same is working in IE. Is this a known issue or some system related issue. Thanks in adv...
I am trying to publish my PB Mobile App on Android for the first time. The package has been created and opened in Android Studio (Ver. 3.6.1). I have made the changes to the SDK settings as per the instruction in PB Powerserver Help files. The APK...
Just files a support request for this: Phenomenon: Using open source WinMerge as File Comparison utility for Source Control does not show differences. Running WinMerge by itself has no problems. *Reproduce Steps: Install WinMerge and specify ...
We have a old version of the PB Application and its running fine in the production. Its using mscomm32.ocx control to print labels thru the application. Now we have a newer version of the PB Appeon 2019 R2. When we compile the code and run the newer ...
Hi Everyone, I have a calendar control which was working fine in 32bit (Calendar 32Bit.JPG), but after compiling in 64bit the calendar control appearing outside the application window as per attached (Calendar 64Bit.JPG), Im using PB 12.6 B4138. The...
Is there a tool or a recommended sequence of steps to take a grid DW with mismatching columns and return it to a state where like fields and headers are in the same column? Over the years customizations of grids have made our DWs appearing unruly in...
I need different different Icon to executable  Just for reference let say I want to use one for 32 Bit and another for 64 Bit like wise in short need pack of some icons which I will  use as per my distribution. I am adding Windows Change Icon Window ...
Good morning,We are using 2017 R3 with Git as source control. After making changes to existing objects and committing the object to Git, the object (sometimes) doesn't display in Appeon upon a Pull from the repository. We are forced to do a "Refresh"...
I saw a previous thread that was related to this but nothing there worked for me. I have a DDDW on a DW, that has some rows with italicized display values, and some non-italic, based on an undisplayed field in the DDDW. I would like the DW to immed...
  I'm having an issue creating an install package for my application.  When I install on a clean computer (no PB installed), I receive an error Application Terminated"Error: The underlying connection was closed. An unexpected error occurred on a s...
Hi according to our tester Ascential Test doesn't recognize Tree Views (at least) in R3 Beta. Does anybody have the same problems. or know if this is fixed when PB 2019 R3 will be officially released in January? Will there be an enhanced support fo...
Hi, Greetings! I have one PowerBuilder application that uses embedded SQL to change the context to a different database using the transaction object. Execute Immediate "Use Database_Name"; where Database_Name is the database name  But when this ...
Happy New Year, everyone! I have made some additions and corrections to a previously-published tutorial based on feedback and additional information learned since the article was originally published. The revised article is in my "Drafts" section of...
Hi All, I am using PFC. I have many response windows in my app (inherited from w_response), but only 1 of them I need to allow the user to resize the window.  I have googled and found answers to this problem (e.g. Bruce A's of_setresizeable functio...
i have migrated my applicaton from 12.5 pb to 17 v . how do i deploy my new code changes into my client machine. As i couldn't found the windows installer for 17v like we had for 12.5 v sybase pb . could you help me out with the process and prerequi...
Working in the initial release of PB2019. However, No idea if it still works with newer PB releases like R3. I am trying to use it in this Powerbuilder R3 and cannot seem to get it to generate. Not sure if it's just not working in this beta release....
See attached..... I copied the ribbonbarmenudemo2.pbl and ribbonbarmenudemo2.pbt and ribbonbarmenugenerator from Bruce Armstrong's Ribbon Generator iinto a traget with all my applications pbl's. when I run the p_ribbonbarmenu3 from the ribbon gener...


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