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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.   :) ...
We have a group that handles licensing for construction tradespeople.  We print a wall certificate for each issued license based on trade 'level' (master, journey, etc).  Each certificate level is printed on specific base stock.  They're wondering if...
Hi, When I am editing a datawindow in the IDE and switch from design mode to the Data Source, it takes a very long time. It might take 3 minutes or more for the SQL query to be displayed, which is harmful to the speed of development. This may have ...
I use the DW Query mode in all of the master lists and search screens in my app... it works like a charm.  But, I have a new requirement in one of my master windows to show the number of linked documents, which is stored in a different table.  So my ...
Anyone out there using Bitbucket as their Git server? Has your experience been positive or regretful?   Thank you....
Looking for some troubleshooting suggestions.   I'm receiving a datawindow error trying to import a SRD source file.   The reported row and column do not match the actual SRD source file.   Not even an off by a couple rows close.   The reported appar...
I've tried declaring and calling this function in all sorts of ways and it continues to return an error.   here is the code that is failing  :   If WSAStartup(257, istr_wsadata) = 0   It should return 0   I wonder if anyone else has had this pr...
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I built a composite datawindow to allow a user to print two dw's on a single page. I am using sharedata on the dwc's to populate the dw's.  When I call sharedata on one of the dw's it pops the "specify retrieval arguments" window.  Any ideas what is ...
hi, As of today we are using PushOk as our Git sourcecontroll client with appeon pb 2017 R3, and it work well. But we most strongly wont to use Appeon tools. Our developers like to use library view when working with the source, and as we see it, ap...
Hi all,LineCount function is listed here as being supported:https://www.appeon.com/support/documents/appeon_online_help/pb2017r3/features_help_for_appeon_web/ch10s10s03.html In reality it always returns 0 (zero) in a WEB deployed application.Any sug...
Gents - can I get some help with this 1880 update. I have tried installing it on a few different machines with the same results. See attached pic. Thanks....
I have installed PB2017 then migrated my old pbcode from pb12 to pb17. I found one strange error. In pb12 if we click any tabpage and if we have tabs inside that tab page by default it will open the first tab page but it is not happening in lastest p...
1 - I have been searching for this tool (as recommended in instruction for debugging), but no luck/ Microsoft have removed from their site , any recommended /reliable site ? 2 -  Is Appeon planing to integrate Powerserver debugging in future?   Th...
How to enable DataWindow Column specifications view?...
I am getting the below error when trying to install PB Appeon version (PWRBLDR-2017R3LTS-1858-STD-EN). Below error message screenshot. THis is on  my laptop which is on Windows 10. The issue started when I tried to reinstall PB after Windo 7 to 10 mi...
Hello, We use Appeon's Packager to build an MSI for deploying PowerBuilder's RunTime for our applications.  For the most part it's working fine with one exception.  After installing the PB RunTime and then installing our applications, we need to cop...
Converting PB 12.5 application to 64 Bit PB2017 R3 and having issue with an External Function that calls GetHost from pbws32.dll. Is there any other way to get the machine IP Address without using pbws32.dll. Should work on both 32 and 64 Bit. Thanks...
Much of the online information on migrating/converting CVS repositories to Git is at least 7 years old. Does anyone have more recent experience and can recommend procedure and/or utilities? Looking for the most dependable. Of course would also des...
Can somebody help us resolve our problem with Kernel32 OpenProcess function which seems to be not working in Windows 10 but OK in Windows 7 environment. Why? OpenProcess(1041 ,False, ll_process_list[li_cnt])  ...
Hi, I would like to know if there's any way to make a page break on a grouponly when this group does not fit completely on a single page. For example,we have a dw with a group on the ORDER column. We have several lines that do not fit entirely on the...


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