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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.   :) ...
In PB2019, the application crashes when I use ShareObjectRegister() after dynamically changing the library list (by adding one or more pbds). This behavior is exactly the same as in PB 12.6.  I noticed that Shared Object functions like SharedObjectG...
I was working with the Create Web API tutorial and tried to add another call for another table other than Departments.  I created a Controller for Persons and all subsequent items, which would take the RetrieveOne for an int on the AdventureWorks2017...
Hi, I was considering attending the Appeon Elevate conference this year, there's a lot of interesting sessions I'd like to be able to see: https://www.appeon.com/conference/elevate-2019/session.html  There's so many that I'm concerned, even if I at...
Hi all, We are evaluating the efforts to migrate PB NVOs from an EAS web app to REST API using Snap Develop and PB 2019. We already migrated few methods using the IDataStore object. However we noticed that several methods were missing from the orig...
Source control in PB2017 and 2019 was improved to no longer export all objects into a common folder. It now creates a subfolder for each PBL and extracts it's source there. This avoids the problem of having objects with the same name in multiple PBLs...
The implementation of Git in 2017 and 2019 is very minimal so you end up doing a lot of stuff outside of the IDE. Mainly creating, switching and merging branches. Anytime you do something outside the IDE you have to remember to do a refresh (to be sa...
Hello PB users,   It takes a very very long time to open (+read/save) a workspace on a mapped network drive. I think it's a network issue but as Powerbuilder environment is the only one to have this problem for now on my laptop, I don't know what t...
I had an earlier post about creating a PDF Portfolio, but have come full circle with the scope of the project and realize I am struggling with determining a good starting place and method for some basic PDF manipulation with PowerBuilder.   I am loo...
Dear Appeon:              thanks your support always, we found a database connection issue, it is a dynamic call the begin tran in the application, when transaction autocommit set to true, it is run normally in the OLE DB, but fail in the SNC conne...
Hi, Due to a MySQL bug regarding auto increment columns, I am investigating upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 where the bug has been fixed. I have successfully upgraded the database but as I have table names and columns that are now reserved words I h...
Hi All,Generate PDF with PDFLib is a very cool new feature ! Thanks a lot for that.By checking the properties with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC of a pdf file generated with PB2017R3 by the NativePDF method, I saw that there is some fields named "Title", "...
hello guru. I developed a pair of WS in C# with Snapobject. Now I have to publish everything on the production server which is an IIS. How should I proceed ? Is there any 'step to step' document?   Thanks   G....
Hi, We would like to add fingerprint verification to our Appeon Mobile App.At the moment I'm at the point where I can check fingerprints/touch id but I don't know how to send success(or error) status code/message back to the app after the verificati...
Buenos dias.  Tengo desarrollada una aplicaciones en power builder ver 11.5, hay forma de ejecutarla en una Mac ?  en entorno windows se ejecuta perfectamente pero al querer ejecutarla en una Mac dice que tiene que ser una aplicacion para ese entor...
can i print to spesific printer on my server from mobile ?? or how can i print to printer installed on my android device  i wrote that printsetprinter not supported on mobile application ...
Does anyone know why I might be receiving the following error when commit; is executed in embedded SQL in WebServer?     The code connects to the database and retrieves data properly.   Primary Code transaction l_trans if -1 = this.trigger eve...
Hello, I want to send an ‘WM_COPYDATA’ message from an C# application to an PowerBuilder application. I have created an struct with the message and other C# can read the message. How can I catch the ‘WM_COPYDATA’ message from PowerBuilder? There is...
My pb IDE: pb11 i call a webservice and it works well for serveral months. but it showed error last month, "HTTP 417".  i asked the server side, they told me to add this sentence before I call the webservice: "System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect10...
Hi I'm trying to create a Richtext DW with a Header and a Footer. However, both Header and Footer always have a margin of about 1.5 cm to the top and bottom of the page, no matter how low I set the top and bottom margins in the print specifications...
Hello, I need to do some IPC with PowerBuilder and a NodeJS App. At the moment we have solved the initial problem by using sockets and sending the data over TCP.   Because the NodeJS app and the PowerBuilder app run both on the same machine (loca...


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