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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 11 months ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 5 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
PowerServer 2025 R2 – RibbonView Theme Not Applied After Deployment
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
I have migrated my PowerBuilder application to PowerBuilder/PowerServer 2025 R2 and enabled RibbonView with a custom UI theme.
The theme works correctly in the IDE, but after PowerServer deployment, the application runs with the default Ribbon and n...
Hello,
I'm using PB 2025 R2 build 6430 runtime 6430.
Try to create a new project
The moment you click New menu... [ from File New or Right click (none) and select New) the IDE gets closed with no messages.
In my windows 10 machine this issue is...
How to stop incremental build in PB 2025 R2 to run the app from IDE
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 hours ago
Hello,
Using PB 2025 R2 build 6430
Project is in Solution mode
More than one users are working on the same project.
Each users working on their objects (windows, datawindows, nvo's etc.)
When one user plans to run to check his development, the...
Deploy not doing anything?
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 hours ago
My other project shows pbd files being built, and the exe being created:
What might be going on here?
Hello,
We are migrating a PowerBuilder application from PB2022 to PB2025 and we have found a difference in behavior when building in Solution mode.
We have a PBD that uses an associated PBR file to embed image resources. This works correctly in PB2...
Power Builder Upgrade | Dw2xls Library
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
We are currently in the process of enhancing our systems, and as part of this effort, we are looking to upgrade our PowerBuilder version from 2017 to PB 2022. In this transition, one critical consideration involves our internal reports that rely on t...
PB 2025 R2 MR(Build 6464) is Now Available! (Link to List of Fixed Bugs Provided)
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- Misc
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 8 hours ago
The latest Maintenance Release (MR) for PowerBuilder 2025 R2 is now available!
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the entire Appeon Engineering team for their efforts!
Here is a link that will display the list of (nearly 50!) bug fixes included i...
We have incorporated Oracle NTS into our very large client-server powerbuilder application (works amazing). We would also like to be able to incorporate it into our PowerServer application. However, it appears the nuget oracle driver does not support...
.Net 10 assembly call on client
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- New
- How-to
- Last updated 23 hours ago
- Uwe Schwan replied 20 hours ago
Hi Support Team. What is the best way to distribute the .net 10 x86 desktop runtime to our client installations. They need .net 10 to call a .net assembly. We only make a xcopy deployment to the clients. BR Uwe
RibbonBar: Groups 'Newline' property issue
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Pieter Coene replied 1 day ago
Hi,
We are upgraded from PB 2022 R3 to PB 2025 R2 and are using the RibbonBar. Ater succesfully migrating, i noticed one icon-group (SmallButtons) not showing up in the Ribbonbar.
This is wat we did in PB 2022 R3 that worked fine:
Category Text="H...
Characters Not Respecting Syntax Colors in PowerBuilder 2025 R2 Editor
- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
I recently downloaded PowerBuilder 2025 R2 and was excited to try it out. Ive configured the script editor with a dark theme, but Ive run into an issue with how certain characters are displayed - specifically: '+, -, , , and =.
You can reproduc...
Error when creating DW with storedprocedure
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi
Our Apps are all in Powerbuilder 2022R3. I upgraded one of the application to 2025 R2 Build 6430
all worked fine until i tried to create a datawindow from Storedprocedure and i get the same error no matter what storedprocedure i select.
Plea...
Error updating table with trigger that affects rows in other tables
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hi,
After migrating to 2025 R2, we have strange error in some datawindows when updating a field that triggers actions in the underlying update trigger. The trigger affects rows on other tables not included in datawindow's sql.
Database is SQL 202...
CheckBox / RadioButton controls rendered misaligned — reproduces in IDE and compiled apps
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Affected versions: Reproduces identically in PowerBuilder 2023 and PowerBuilder 2025 (both the IDE/painters and compiled 32-bit EXE output).
Summary: CheckBox and RadioButton controls both native window controls and CheckBox/RadioButton DataWindow ...
Will Hong Kong Users Have Access to Claude AI Integration in PowerBuilder 2025 R3?
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Coming up in Appeon PowerBuilder 2025 R3 will integrate Claude AI. I wanted to ask: since users in Hong Kong can not directly access Claude AI (region restricted), will they actually be able to use this AI functionality?Thanks.
Datawindow SaveAs to Excel ignores computed fields
- Issue
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hello there,
We recently implemented data encryption at rest in our databases and just stumbled upon a problem on the unexpected end. When we pull data from db it comes encrypted, so in order to show decrypted values we use computed fields in our da...
Datawindow Command Button Background Colour in PB2022R3
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- Issue
- Last updated 5 days ago
- John Fauss replied 4 days ago
Hi All,
We've recently migrated our applications from PB2019R3 to PB2022R3 and we've noticed that datawindow command buttons are now displaying in a different colour to previously.
Our datawindows generally have a button face background colour and ...
greetings,
I have a need of exporting PB objects, instead of right clickexport in library painter for each object is there any way to read all objects in PBL and then export them in one shot or individually?
I am willing to learn ORCA script too, b...
How to install 2019R3 with the latest version of bootstrapper?
- New
- How-to
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 days ago
How to install PB 2019R3 with the current version of bootstrapper (22.3.0.1566)? Where to find old versions of bootstrapper with 19R3?
Post Migrating issue from PB12.6 to PB 2025 Build 3726
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Dwight Nguyen replied 5 days ago
All,
I've recently migrated a PB12.6 App to PB 2025 following the Migration Assistant closely.
Updated Runtime DLLs
Upgraded PBLs and performed a full build.
Can connected via DB Profile w/in PB
Can connect successfully with Toad and SQL Advan...
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