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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.   :) ...
1 - I have been searching for this tool (as recommended in instruction for debugging), but no luck/ Microsoft have removed from their site , any recommended /reliable site ? 2 -  Is Appeon planing to integrate Powerserver debugging in future?   Th...
How to enable DataWindow Column specifications view?...
I am getting the below error when trying to install PB Appeon version (PWRBLDR-2017R3LTS-1858-STD-EN). Below error message screenshot. THis is on  my laptop which is on Windows 10. The issue started when I tried to reinstall PB after Windo 7 to 10 mi...
Hello, We use Appeon's Packager to build an MSI for deploying PowerBuilder's RunTime for our applications.  For the most part it's working fine with one exception.  After installing the PB RunTime and then installing our applications, we need to cop...
Converting PB 12.5 application to 64 Bit PB2017 R3 and having issue with an External Function that calls GetHost from pbws32.dll. Is there any other way to get the machine IP Address without using pbws32.dll. Should work on both 32 and 64 Bit. Thanks...
Much of the online information on migrating/converting CVS repositories to Git is at least 7 years old. Does anyone have more recent experience and can recommend procedure and/or utilities? Looking for the most dependable. Of course would also des...
Can somebody help us resolve our problem with Kernel32 OpenProcess function which seems to be not working in Windows 10 but OK in Windows 7 environment. Why? OpenProcess(1041 ,False, ll_process_list[li_cnt])  ...
Hi, I would like to know if there's any way to make a page break on a grouponly when this group does not fit completely on a single page. For example,we have a dw with a group on the ORDER column. We have several lines that do not fit entirely on the...
Hello all... We need to update our process for application deployment, so that it is SOX Compliant. The requirement, as I understand it, is that the same files that are tested in the UAT environment are put into PROD environment.  This includes the...
Hello Chris... I have a problem with the datawindow, the detail is that I made a list of products with their image, but when I scroll vertically, the datawindow is locked, and in many cases it takes me out of the application by memory saturation , a...
PB2017 R3 build 1858 / Win10 / GIT /TFS / Tortoise GIT I had an issue with my workspace so I decided to start over.  Closed my workspace, then deleted the whole source folder including the pbw file.  Then I did Connect to Workspace using GIT/TFS and...
Has anyone successfully integrated a testing framework into their CI environment for their power builder codebase, either in VSTS or AWS? It's a legacy project and although desirable, full unit test coverage is probably out of scope, however some sor...
Hi All, While opening the application EXE, the below mentioned error message has been displayed with the old version of PB2017 version. Cannot load Rich text edit control: Windows error code 0 : pbctxtext170.dll is missing On Adding the ment...
Hi,    I have a few problems viewing the reports after migrating the code from power builder 9 to 2017R3(MR #1858 patch). Problem is that the content in the reports are not sorting in order and some of the text found missing in few pages while bein...
Hi all I have created a web service ( pb 2017 R3 build 1858 ) on my machine ( called it lola_tech) the purpose is :  connecting a db and return xml formatted answer for 3party users . each db is physically located on my customer's site . I want t...
In this latest version of R3 I can choose between the internal RichTex control or the previous TXT version. Does anyone know what version of the TXT is implemented. Is it the old version that was in 12.5 or their latest release. Thanks in advance, R...
 Hi, This is a web service question. I can't seem to get a simple web service to connect to a local database using odbc. software Im using is as follows: powerbuilder 2019 beta,  sybase anywhere 16,  iis 10,  windows 10. This is a standard power ...
I need assistance with referencing a DLL in my build using Orcascript (Orcascr170) or PBC170.  I have an application that when built via the IDE references two DLLs as Dynamic Linked Libraries and the deployed exe file succesfully calls these DLLS fo...
Hi PB Experts I have run into an issue that, for the life of me, I cannot solve. I need to access PDF files on a share drive on a remote server using URL. If I copy and paste the file's URL, I get a LogIn/Password page which asks for security. Aft...
Hi all. I have a problem regarding the escaping of backslash characters with SQL Anywhere dbs. I experience the problem inside a PB Datawindow, but it's merely a db problem, so I will describe it in terms of pure SQL. Suppose I create a dummy table...


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