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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.   :) ...
PB 2022 1900 We recently changed our Emailing from MAPI to use Outlook OLE instead.  This has been working great but every so often we get a customer calling in reporting a throwable error during the send operation ("Error accessing external object ...
Has anyone connected their PB application to an AWS Aurora database (using PB 2022 R3)?  If so, what did you use to connect? ODBC? something else? Thanks!...
Hi; We have a window that contains a WebBrowser control. There are jquery and Kendo scripts on the page that are failing in the control. We get a message saying "JSON not found" and then several cascading errors. The scripts run fine if the page is ...
Hello, Just yesterday I installed the PowerBuilder 2022 R3 3289 Runtime on one of our servers and found it broke one of our PowerBuilder 2021 applications.  We have the PowerBuilder 2021 Standard Runtime installed on the same server.  No issues foun...
Hello   How to use 2-D barcodes (DataMatrix or QR Codes) in Infomaker 19+?   We only need to insert the graphics on the report. We currently have infomaker 11.2 (without Powerbuilder)?   We do not want to pay too much $$$$ per year.   Best R...
How to dynamically add a column which is not part of the select statement during runtime.  I don't see an option for dw-modify for it, all I see is the table.select which then brings up more issues of if I have to add a column in the select then ...
We have a dll compiled targeting .NET 6.0 and imported using .NET DLL Importer.   In the same Windows Server 2019 we have installed Runtime 22.1.0.2819 and Runtime 22.2.0.3356. The application compiled using autobuild works as intended using 22.1....
PB 2019 R3 to 2022 R3 Migration -After migration I am getting compiler error related to jaguarorb   Please find the error description in detail given below pfcmain.pbl(pfc_n_jaguarorb).pfc_n_jaguarorb.Forward Declarations.2: Error       C0239: Obj...
As mentioned  in the below link Built-in Rich Edit Control (TE Edit Control) is discontinued Discontinued/Obsolete Features - - What's New (appeon.com)   We did a Test migration from 2019 R3 to 2022 R3,but the migration process doesn't report any ...
Hi my fellow PowerBuilder enthusiast :-) Can you advise me if PostgreSQL is a good and fast and stable database. Currently using Firebird 2.5 (2.5 is an old version that is really hard to upgrade) and it is unstable sometimes and not fast when datab...
We are trying to install a .net web services on a Windows 2012 R2 server, but the runtime files installation of PowerBuilder 2021 does not contain the required files.   Steps Installation IIS & ASP.net 3.5 and 4.5 Restart server Installing...
Me again, I screwed up and ran PB 2022 before the complete upgrade was complete (the IDE install was complete).  When I was asked if I wanted to use the new version of the runtime, I could only answer Yes or No, could not cancel.  So I clicked NO.  ...
Hi all, Just wondering... if I update PB to the latest MR 3356, but leave the runtime parameter the same, (1 release earlier), do I need to create another Runtime Installer and update the Runtime settings in the application when deploying to get the...
I have a radiobutton style column in a DW (PB 2021) that normally has 3 options. However, depending on some situations I need to change it to only 2 or only 1 option, with varying text. To set it to only 1, I use code like: dw.object.columnName.valu...
Adding a new record in datawindow from script on a command button and calling update command in itemchanged event of datawindow after editing record in datawindow is popping Datawindow update error in PowerServer 2022. Script runs fine in PowerBuild...
Hello, Using PB 2022 R3 Need to a call API which sends a file along with other parameters.   It could be successfully sent from Postman using form-data, where there is an option to enter text or select a file option.   Now need to send the same us...
Hi Team, Recently we have moving our PB application to powerclient. In our application we will be calling some other PB application exe's in other application menus. We just wanted to know file path of the exe clicking in the menu. We need the exe c...
Hello, we migrate our app from PB115 to PB2022R3 recently. After migration all seems to run perfect. Now the app crashes without "any sound". Not always but sometimes. Most crashes occur when many windows are opened. It´s not a special line of c...
Hi all, is it possible to trigger an event on the tabpage after pressing the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) - e.g. to close it - as in the browser? I can't find a way... Regards, Tomáš...
Hello, Using PB 2022 R3 Build 3289 (64 bit) with PostgreSQL 15 and SQLite 3 We have many reports which constructs required SQL and set it with SetSQLSelect to retrieve the data.  It works perfectly fine when we connect to PostGreSQL 15.  And fails ...


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