Featured Questions

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 Experts! We've identified a strange problem. On some computers (with probably only Windows 10) our programs written in PowerBuilder 2019, 2017 and 12.5 crash when you activate the Windows screen magnifier (full screen). On other computers (also ...
We are using xUnit for our unit tests.  Tests – very simple ones – will often fail with the attached error when doing a 'Run All Tests' operation.  And it is random.  If I select the failed test that is highlighted below and do a 'Run Selected Test' ...
Hi all,    How can I find the list of unused(not referenced by) objects in a PB2019 project?     Thanks      ...
I have a datawindow that was created on powerbuilder 8, when i migrate to PowerBuilder 2019, i saw one problem: In the datawindow i have many columns , one of them is a text type , in the previous version it works, but in the new version , i can ins...
Hello, I am new to PB community and recently our company purchased and installed 2019 standard license to migrate PB9.0 application we had, which was last  updated in 2010.  Created a  DB profile , giving connection Error " Please connect as PB cata...
I just installed PB2019 on a Windows 2016 server (64-bit) and migrated our application. No errors. Did the same last week on a Win10 desktop. Migrated the application there as well.  I noticed that I cannot regen any datawindow objects in the 2016 s...
Version: PowerBuilder 2017 R3 Build 1858 When using the native Git integration of PowerBuilder, it seems to ignore the pre-commit git hook I've created. pre-commit: #!/bin/sh branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"if [ "$branch" = "master" ];...
Hello, all I am confused with the documentation of Orca script. It does not state which part of project deploy each command does. What exactly do the following functions do? 1. Build application - a lot of processing but no PBDs are created 2. B...
I am getting error like Appeon power builder 2019 has stopped working message with close program button.   Scenario: I have defined event with pbm_lbuttonup event id in user oject and that user object placed in window. while running the applicatio...
HI,   since yesterday we're trying to use github for versionning control with our PB 2017 R3 application.   github account are not entreprise accounts but we're planning on going there once things go smouthly We enever used git before, knowledge...
Dear Appeon Community, I need information, restrictions, limitations that we should consider regarding an application developed in Powerbuilder 2017 can connect to databases in the cloud (SQL as a Service). This application will be hosted on Windows...
We are moving from 12.5 to 2019 in the next couple months and we are doing some testing. One of the testers is reporting that InfoMaker prompting for migration is inconsistent. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. My understanding of PowerBu...
hello all   I am using the httpclient object to consume a soap ws . the vendor told me I need to apply a user name before I calling the ws. How do I do that ? using the SetRequestHeader function ? something like SetReqesutHeader( "user name", "m...
Hi , Friends Now that PowerBuilder can consume api rest; Some example of consumption of an API for sending mass emails; ow that PowerBuilder can consume api rest; Some example of consumption of an API for sending mass emails;  ...
We need a small function to make the data window printing size dynamic ...
Hello, all I create a batch make file, which works correctly from regular windows shell. It launches ORCA script commands, which get latest version from SC and then build the executable. The ORCA script does not work, when launching from TFS agent ...
I am currently using an old PowerBuilder version from 2011. In that version it seems to be impossible to disable certain elements in the pop menu from the rich text edit window. For example, I would like the user to be able to format text as bold, b...
Hello,I've created a datawindow (dw_data) with select consisting on 2 tables like: Select           tab1.symbol,          tab1.desc,          tab2.id,          tab2.fk1,          tab2.fk2,          tab2.status,          etc...From tab1,          ta...
Hello all, i'm have some trouble with the implementation of a third party DLL.According to the Author of the DLL,it is a 'C shared library'.I'm not familiar with c/c#.Every call to a function witch have parameters ends with the runtime error'Specifi...
We have a powerbuilder application where we use forms which display text fields which have autosize height. These fields are stacked on the form vertically one above the other. An average sized height is provided in the form, but if more text or da...


There are no discussions available here currently