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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 have upgraded from PowerBuilder 2019 R2 to PowerBuilder 2021 (with the ability to compile multiple runtime versions).How can I now compile a PowerBuilder 2019 R2 version (19.1.0.2353) with PowerBuilder 2021? What needs to be downloaded or installe...
We would like the server to generate emails rather than the desktop. Is this possible? ...
I have a client using PS 2021 who uses yellow background in datawindows for required fields.  When using themes, the yellow background doesn't show up.  What are others using for this scenario to display a different background color?...
When the DB connection fails in our app, there *can* be many SQLSTATE = 08S01 errors that annoy the users.  What they'd like is for the app to reconnect if disconnected.  I'm trying to, firstly, circumvent all the exceptions, but having trouble. I...
We just upgraded from PB 2019 to PB 2021 Build 1311.  Tested our application and all seemed OK.  After releasing it to our customers some are complaining that the application crashes when it is started.  After investigating, the event log is reportin...
Hi All, we are migrating to PB2021 our WebServices that we developed with PB2017 R3 and we are facing the following problem: all the lds_DataStore.Retrieve() calls return -1 in PB2021. If we try to get the SQL statement of the DataObject with lds_D...
I've just migrated our app to PowerServer and have 3 main issues: 1. We used to have ODBC connection to MSSQL, it does not seem available right now. Is that correct? I'm getting a lot of SQL errors all of a sudden. 2. Overall performance seem...
Hi All, My Company is using Power Builder 2017 R2 version and they want to integrate SONAR Qube and NEXUS . We have code repository on Bit Bucket . SO is there any idea or suggestion SONAR Qube and Nexus is compatible or not with PowerBuilder2017R...
We have migrated our applications from PB10/12.5 to PB2019R3.  We have a lot of stored procedures being called via the Declare/Execute statements.  When the process gets to the Execute statement it crashes the application.   We are connecting to MSS...
I am trying to create proxies and I am getting the error: Windows SDK for .Net Framework 4.0 was not installed.  Please install it before use this feature. I searched and I found I have to download:   Download Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and...
Hi All, Is there an easy way of listing all images/icons used/referenced in objects within a Powerbuilder Application? I am hoping to modernize a lot of the icons/images we use but need a comprehensive list of everywhere they have been used within ...
We are using PVCS and Serena Dimensions CM to build a PB 12.6 app.  The icon and bmps are in the pbr and are in the PVCS subdirectories.  But when the application is built, they are not included in the EXE (which is where the pbr is).  What do I have...
Hi All, Hoping to get hold of Ronnie Po's EPS file for creating Custom Theme Image files for window Control Buttons. As part of the - "Themifying" a Mature PowerBuilder Application: Aging Gracefully in a New Skin - session video, Ronnie had said he...
When choosing a Database Configuration for the PowerServer project, it only lists 64-bit SQL Anywhere 17 odbc's.  Is it not supported with 32-bit ODBC?...
Hi, TIP: I don't know if anyone has a similar function, so this is just a tip. We have a global function "f_str_replace()", which uses a loop with the powerbuilder Pos() and Replace() functions to replace all occurrences of an "old" piece of strin...
I have a picture control in a user defined object that will be set by a function call  If I pass a disk file name, the function works. If I pass a built-in file name like the one that it displays correctly if unchanged ("Prior1!") like "CustomerBig!...
hello all We are using this code to call a WebService :Please help  lo_client = Create httpClient lo_client.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=UTF-8") lo_client.SetRequestHeader("SOAPAction", ls_soap_action) lo_client.SetRequestH...
We are currently running our web application on PS 2020 on Azure. We have several clients and in AEM we define the connection caches for each client. These connection caches reside in connection-cache.config file. When a server is provisioned all we ...
Hi All, I am trying to migrate my application from PB 7.0 to PB 2017.  When I used Migration Assistant, I got the following error message :- "Obsolete SaveAsType DataWindow constant". Could you please suggest a workaround for this error mess...
hi, i am trying to use power client i notice that the deployed libraries on client machine are very small in size each pbd become a folder contains a small file where is the actual code and how it works regards  ...


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