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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 All, I'm trialing PowerBuilder 2019 to upgrade an existing application currently on PB9. Did an auto upgrade using PB2019 and everything compiled well. Modified the code block to connect to MS SQL 2014 DB using OLE DB (I assume thats the best cho...
I have html in a column in a sql table and need to display it with all its formatting in a RTE control that I'm using to generate a RTF word document.   Is this possible?  Any ideas?   Thanks, Lou...
Hi everyone, I have a problem with PowerBuilder 2017R3 IDE. When i start debug, the IDE has crash. The button to debug disable and the IDE close. The event log from windows it is like this:   Nome do aplicativo com falha: PB170.EXE, versão: ...
Hello, We're moving PB 2017 application from WIN7 to WIN10.  One of the processes in that app is to process files in a given directory/folder.  Currently on WIN7 we use 'FindFirstFileA' WIN API to start the processing which works....returned value/h...
In PowerBuilder 2019, the way to connect a Rest-Api is with this:   Application Window--client= CREATE RESTClientclient.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json")client.SetRequestHeader("Accept-Encoding","gzip") Function Window-- String ...
We have using SnapDevelop quite successfully on a project where the middle tier connects to an Oracle database.   I have a process that is run from an Oracle procedure that takes about 30 seconds to complete if run from within Toad or another SQL t...
Hi, My organisation has a 2-Tier PowerBuilder App last upgraded to PowerBuilder 9.5 in 2012. I am looking at upgrading it to a the latest version of PowerBuilder. Will the latest version of PowerBuilder be able to compile this quite old application...
The "stand alone compiler" option seems very nice, but we need to get the PBL's updated from TFS as well, does anybody know if an automated "Get Latest" or similar is also possible?...
PB2017r3 Windows 10 I had an issue that I have not seen before.  I did not see anything in the questions and answers about it, I was wondering if anybody else has seen a similar issue. I have a window opened as a sheet.  This window, when a user c...
We are just starting to explore upgrading our applications from PowerBuidler 10.5 to PowerBuilder 2019.  We have a few applications that we use a 3rd party product 'PowerImage32' that was developed/sold by Visionary Solutions, Inc.  One of the applic...
Hi there, i'm experiencing a strange behaviour using PB Native source control (PB2019 Build 2082).I'm working on an application migrated from pb2017 and it is like the second time that i grab an object using check out, modify it, then check in. Later...
Hi, How can I import a multiline Json with an array into a datawindow?[ { "id":123, "agendamentoTED":false, "usuario":"AUTOM", "id_ususario":20141, "idCanal":11, "codigoBancoDestino":1, "tipoConta":1, "codigoFinalidade":2, "array":[ { "nm_user":"...
I am having trouble creating a GUID on my executable. It works fine in development but it fails when I run it on an executable on any machine that I do not have PB installed.   OLEObject myoleobject myoleobject = CREATE OLEObject PBObject = CRE...
Hi all, We have changed from saving datawindows to Excel using Excel8! to XLSX! and as a consequence the column widths in Excel have become extremely wide. The users now have to scroll far to the right in order to see the data and it is very annoyin...
Hi all,  I wish you a happy new year. Using PB 12.5, 2017 and 2019. When defining a crosstab DW with a stored procedure as source, you cannot view the "column specification" panel so you cannot change anything about the stored procedure. You have ...
Hi, I am using the following code to read data from a web service. However, i get the same Picture every time. How do i clear the Blob to get the new picture? I am using PB 2018 R3 Build 1858. Thanks http = create httpclientli_rc = http.ClearReq...
Bom dia! Quando tento converter o PB 2017 para 2019 e executo em uma máquina, dá a seguinte mensagem de erro: GetTimeZoneInformationForYear na dll Kernel32.dll. Como devo proceder? Por favor. Grato! Good Morning! When I try to convert PB 2017 to 201...
I just installed Appeon PowerBuilder 2017 R3 MR build 1915. But when I check the version of my PowerServer (AEM), it is still build 1880. How can I upgrade PowerServer to build 1915. My PowerBuilder version is build 1915. Thanks, Jon...
I have this message when I try to save a register with a primary key formed by two columns (moneda char(1) , fecha datetime ).   The message is SQLSTATE = 42000 sintaxis incorrecta cerca de '00' no changes made to database   INSERT INTO CA ( MO...
Hi. I am using PB 2017 R3 Build 1858. When exporting a datawindow to excel12 the width of the string-columns is huge (254,29), regardless of whether the column contains onbly short texts. When using excel8 for export the columns are only 10,71 wide...


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