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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.   :) ...
Hello:   This is more of a "Can I?" support question than a how to question.  We recently migrated to PB2021 with Git SCC.  I am wondering if the *.json file (created from the Export Auto Build function within PB) can be pointed to clone from a spe...
We have a large mature application with hundreds of windows.   With this next release we are for the first time going to be applying themes but only partially.   We are using them for windows, menus, windows, tab objects, radiobuttons,checkboxes, scr...
Hi Team, We have a requirement, where user need to visit/click/Tab out each field in the datawindow. but fields are non-editable. Please suggest us any possible solution. Regards Gyaneshwar...
Hi, we're trying PB Themes in PB2019R3. Is there a way to disable the themes for some windows ? I tried to complete the theme.json file, but it doesn't seem to work, the theme is applied :    "w_main2": { "drawing":false }, "w_main2$statictext":...
请问下安卓在10之后就不能允许访问其它应用安装的文件了,好像只能访问相册,请问怎样可以做到能读写其它应用的文件比如office文件,我看安卓系统里面的设置没有权限开放的...
Hi, we are using the addToLibraryList() function to dynamically extend the library list of our application, to dynamically use other/new powerbuilder objects like datawindows etc. This seems to be not fully supported anymore when deploying a powerse...
    Hello all!   I am working on a PowerBuilder application for my company and we're trying to upgrade it to the latest version. We currently use PB 9.5 and I was going to begin my conversion from there, however,  I just learned from another deve...
We have a script that dynamically generates a datawindow that has an array of icons showing the state of various data (see image below).  There are up to about 20 different images that could be displayed per icon depending on the data. We are constan...
We are starting to use themes however we run into one issue that is very annoying.  I am hoping there is an easy solution!  We have specified in our theme, radiobuttons and checkboxes and have not specified a background color.   When we display a wi...
My reports usually are datawindow that has a header with a report (Company Name and Logo).   When migrating to Snapdevelop, it doesn't retrieve the header.   It also doesn't work well if I use a datawindow parameter in a compute field.   How do...
The title of this post is wrong. It's not PrintSetup() but Print(true, true) already writing a PDF file (with 0 bytes and not valid): Hi, As you might have noticed, on https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/need-for-documentation-on-all-exi...
When saving a datawindow to Excel 12 from PowerBuilder 2021 program crashes. When saving a datawindow to Excel 5 from PowerBuilder 2021 data is saved. Is there a special DLL that the program "exe" needs to save to Excel 12....
Hello, PS 2021 and Oracle 12c. Web APIs -> DB configuration results in ORA-01017, as simple as "invalid username/password; connection denied". Same parameters work from PB DB profile. Technically, I have been provided with an Oracle proxy user ...
Hi Guru    I would like to modify address in sales template which stored blob type in sql server.  would you advise me how to do that   for example ; How to convert blob type to bmp and convert to bmp to blob type      william...
I am working with an application in Powerbuilder 2021. I created a composite report with 3 nested reports. Each report has the page count in their header. How can i get the page count in the trailing 2 reports be a continuation of the page count from...
Today if been trying to get the Sales Demo application to work with Postgresql 13.6. The on the Github suggested database didn't restore (reported as a bug and will be fixed). After being pointed to another working version of the database by Mark L...
I notice that i can't put a WebBrowser object inside a datawindow to show my Graphs using JS Libreries as eCharts,.... Do you know other way to add this technologies to my datawindow ?...
Dear all,   do some of you have experiences running PB 2019/2021 against Windows 11? Any big issues/findings? I know that 2021 is still not officially supported for Win 11, but I need to dind good reasons to go for it. Many thanks in advance Th...
Good afternoon, I have a RibbonBar for my App, but I want that my RibbonCategoryItems don't look like this:     The RibbonCategoryItems have enough space in the header to be showed but happens what you see in the picture and the full text in som...
Hello,Is it possible to open a PDF document in full screen mode in a powerbuilder version 2019 R3 build 2703 window?Thank you for your help...


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