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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.   :) ...
hi  after program export to excel. the program icon missing. it seem need fine tune some configure file .  would you have advise before export excel after export to excel , icon missing       ...
Hi folks, My app creates a temporary directory then adds an unspecified number of pdf reports to it.  When I'm done, I want to delete the whole directory.  RemoveDirectory() requires the directory to be empty.  FileDelete() requires the file name. ...
Hi, we need to edit our licenses data. Unfortunately, no one knows how to do this. We don't have a user with administrator rights either. What do I have to do to get to the right page?How can I register as administrator to make changes later?More inf...
Hi guys, We have a very strange problem. Our big application written on PowerBuilder, C#, VB and works with Oracle and Mss databases. The save process to database going by command dscontrol.Update() through array of datastores control. The problem ...
Hi. The appeon website indicates that I have not purchased any products. It will not allow me to download any products. We should have 4 powerbuilder IDE and 7 infomaker licenses.  The PB IDE indicates that I have 200+ days remaining on my license. ...
With the change of the Runtime Path in 2019 R3 I am wondering if the SOAP Web Service has the same feature.  I do not want to add the '..\Runtime 19.2.0.2728' to the System Path.  Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Chris Craft...
This is regarding one of the PowerBuilder applications that I support. This application is based on an older version of PowerBuilder, probably 6/6.5. We need to upgrade the application to a supportable and stable version of PowerBuilder, preferably v...
  Is there any way by which we can get the code coverage in unit test process. What I need is, say I call a function and then I can get no of lines executed in our process, and some statistics with line of code executed/not-executed, percentage cov...
Hi all I have a question about the character encode types for (exported) DWObject srd files. I opened 3 exported SRD files in Notepad++ straight from my application's target. What I noticed is those 3 files are of 2 different character encoding - A...
Environment: PB 2019 R2 Beta; Git; Github account with SSO enabled. Hello - I get this Login error,"Failed to perform the specified operation. Please make sure you can connect to the server repo" while i am trying to connect to a workspace on Github...
It would be nice to have a tunneling feature in PowerBuilder. If you can access the database through tunneling, you can solve the C/S security issue. Currently, tunneling is solved using plink.    ...
Hello, PB 2021.1288 I have issue with PBNI SMTP control from Topwiz, Roland Smith. If I select to send email as HTML my attachment is not attached to mail. Receiver gets email where in the body is added name of file which should be attached but no...
Which version of the .NET framework does PB 2021 use.  Is it 4.5?...
Hi, I am using rich text control in a free form datawindow to display text from a database text field previously entered in a separate rich text control on a free form datawindow. So data is entered- then in a separate window the data is viewed. In...
Hello, how can i create PDF/A with "saveas" in a Datawindowcontrol? i am using Powerbuilder 2019 R2 ?Or what is the best way creating PDF/A Documents from Datawindows? regards Karl...
Dear Support Team, I am using the Power Builder 2021 trial version. I have created one Power Builder sample application. Following is the detail information about the application. 1. Created the Workspace 2. Selected "Application" as Target. 3. ...
what is the reson for the below error...   2021-10-27 11:52:10.769 ERROR [2892] Error in detecting the update of the application runtime library files. Error code: 30012021-10-27 11:52:10.769 ERROR [3980] Failed to parse the file "C:\Users\Sha\AppD...
How to get position of cursor in edittext style box of datawindow?   I want to open a small dropdown list at current position as I type with . (.dot notation).. I am unable to find cursor position in datawindow column with edit style... Any advise...
Hi   I am looking for a piece of code or function so that my application will close after x minutens of no activity.  Anyone know how to code this Thanks in advanged Cheers Ingmar...
Hi all,  I'm trying to consume a Rest API to get an authentication token. I have no problemems getting the token on Postman with this configuration:   But I cant't do it in PB 2021 with OauthClient, it throws me a -1 error code  (tried also w...


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