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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.   :) ...
We are migrating an application from PB2017 to PB2022R3.   As part of the documentation for migration it speaks to the following:   RichTextEdit control and RichText DataWindow changes - - Upgrading PowerBuilder Applications (appeon.com)     W...
Hello, One of my customers carried out a Windows update on his environment (KB5036896). Since then, he no longer has access to his login screen when he launches the application (PB2019R3).However, it does appear in the task manager. Have you ever ...
Hi According to the documentation https://docs.appeon.com/pb2022/pbug/Saving_data_in_an_external_file.html#Saving_as_PDF_using_PDFlib PB can embed custom fonts into generated PDF file. Which fonts are considered as 'custom'? If I check this field...
Hi We just moved from PB17 to PB22, tested everything and its working fine except when I wanted to add a menuitem to main menu, it was very very slow. To open menu painter itself was very slow. Each click on menu would have to wait atleast 30 secs. ...
Hi guys;   Thanks for your time. I need to know what type of data retrieve a query; when use a datawindow. I put into context what require or intend to do.I have several queries to make to a database; on several tables, with different types of dat...
I have questions... Does the PowerClient feature require the CloudPro license or is it available for Professional? Is PowerClient only for client app deployment? I just want to verify it is separate from PowerServer. Does it support deployment to ...
Hi, We are migrating our application from SQL native client to ODBC 18 for SQL server driver, but facing an issue while using SELECTBLOB as the PBMAXBlobSize is default set to 32767.  Already tried updating the pbodb.ini, its working, but need it t...
Hi all, Does anyone have any idea on how to intercept this error message:   I've tried dwerror events, systemerror, updatestart, sqlpreview but no luck. The error does not seem to go through any event? TIA, regards  ...
Hi Everyone I thought I would try and setup and use the PBAutoBuild220.exe to build our applications. My first problem was that I needed to install the PB IDE before the EXE would run at all (I had tried only installing the tools and utilities). I t...
Hi, We have stored icon.bmp stored as a blob in MSS DB, and we are trying to fetch that file in code but blob is able to fetch only 32767 bytes data. We tried adding PBMaxBlobSize in dbparams through ODBC connections, but it doesnt helped. Is their...
Hi, Without using .Net DLL importer ,i have used LoadWithDotNet() function to connect to the DLL from powerbuilder. but when i try to create the instance to access the method available in the .net Dll,i am getting null object reference DotNetObject...
Good morning, As you can see in the image, as default the ribbonbar in a category panel shows 3 rows of SmallButtons. I've tried to show 2 rows using the tag group with property NewLine="true" and i like this case because it looks align and the s...
Hi , i want to replace exist ole object control to webbrowser control .There is an existing code at newwindow2 event at the ole object .at webbrowser control , there is no newwindow2 event . Where should I write the code?    ...
Hello, Using PB 2022 R3 with SQLite 3 When we retrieve data in a datawindow from SQLite database, all (numeric) computed columns are retrieved as character fields.  And converting the character values into numeric and then doing the required comput...
I am looking for the sample code provided by Georg Brodbeck during his talk on Creating an Advanced & Modern UX with Drag & Drop Using DataWindows, the pbl was called advanced_ux.pbl. Does anyone have the sample code or a way of communicating...
Hi all, I'm working on a program that allows the user to build/customize a DataWindow, and I'd like the user to be able to add an image to their format. I'm storing images in the database, so I'd like to be able to use the tableblob object, since it...
I am working on using EPPlus C# assembly for Excel from PowerBuilder. I am doing it with PB 2021 for now until we move to PB 2019-R3. Then I can move the code into the main application. I wrote a wrapper assembly in C# to make it easier to work with...
Hi,   Is there a way to hide the picture section of theses items ? I just want to show the text. Regards,...
While debugging the dll created in .net framework 4.5 from powerbuilder 2022(R3) through attach process getting below error(The breakpoint will not currently be hit.No symbols have been loaded for this document). Kindly help to recolve this. Please f...
We're experiencing an issue with a legacy powerbuilder application and could use some advice on how to proceed.  We recently switched build servers where this application is built, and the application behaves differently based on which build server ...


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