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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 10 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 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Issue in Microsoft Edge, Firefox & Google Chrome
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- Issue
- Last updated 16 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 hours ago
We are experiencing a white screen issue with our Appeon web application.The application loads successfully initially. However, after working in the application for some time, the application suddenly becomes completely blank (white screen). Once thi...
Using PB 2025R2, Oracle 19c
Our company recently rolled out a requirement for oracle passwords to include a special character. However, when I encrypt the new password using customizedeploy.dll the new encrypted password does not work.
Example of...
Passing a numeric array to a C DLL by reference
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
I'm at my wit's end!
I just want to pass a numeric array from an object to a C DLL I have written, in such a way that changes made to the array in the DLL are reflected when the external function call returns to PB (i.e., the call is by reference).
...
Feasibility and Approach for PowerBuilder 6.5 to PowerBuilder 2021 Upgrade
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- John Fauss replied 1 day ago
We have a legacy application developed in PowerBuilder 6.5 and are evaluating an upgrade to PowerBuilder 2021.
We would like to understand the recommended upgrade approach and any challenges we should anticipate during the migration.
Could you plea...
I have encountered some issues since I have upgrade my Powerbuilder
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- mike S replied 1 day ago
Hi, I work on a legacy project. It used to be maintained with PowerBuilder 6, but recently we found it doesn't support certain characters, so my company decided to upgrade it. It just happened that our server's motherboard was damaged, so we had to r...
How to retrieve APIM token which would be used in the headers for authenticating any API calls.
We have the client-id, client-secret, grant-type and scope along with the APIM url. We are using PowerBuilder 2022R3.
The body of the APIM call is in x-...
Hello,
AI is making wave. Do Appeon got any idea to introduce AI into PB IDE?
Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash
Display Multiple Images in a DataWindow from a URL or FTP
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hello Community,
Is it possible to display multiple images in a PowerBuilder DataWindow by loading them from a URL or an FTP server instead of storing them locally?
If so, could you please share the recommended approach or any examples?
Thank you!
Video Player on PB 2019 R3 build 2670
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi everyone,I want to play videos on a powerbuilder app.The video will may be sent as a Blob format coming form an APi or could be in a "physical" format (.MP4 or similar).
I treid with the OLE object that uses WIndows Media Player, but id doesn't s...
Custom C# code in UserExtensions for PowerServer 2022 project
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 days ago
- David Xiong @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi All,
Kindly help with a clarification on using custom C# code in PowerServer 2022 R3 project which I am building using pbautobuild.
I need to have modifications in 3 files under UserExtensions folder - UserExtensions.csproj, UserStartup.cs and U...
Is PowerBuilder 2022 incompatible with PowerBuilder 2017?
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
We have been stuck with version 2017 of PowerBuilder because every recent version of PowerBuilder has caused random crashes in our application.
During recent testing after migrating our main client application to PowerBuilder 2022 it became evident ...
Migrating Windows 11 from 24H2 to 25H2 prints double the copies. Strange!! help!!
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 days ago
We are using PB 2025. We upgraded our Windows 11 from 24H2 to 25H2. Ever since when we print a DW report choose the number of copies as 1 it prints 1 copy. But if we choose any number more than 1 it prints double the copies. For ex. If I choose to p...
Retrieve Time Field Gets Error In SQL Server
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
We have been deploying our PB app with SQL Anywhere and want to change to Microsoft SQL Server. We have converted our database to SQL Server. There is a Time field in our database. When we use SQL Server Native Client driver for our ODBC DSN the time...
Post Migrating issue from PB12.5 to PB 2022 R3
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hi Team,
I have migrated our PowerBuilder 12.5 application to PowerBuilder 2022 R3. When I launch the application, it calls several DLLs through Local External Functions, but the calls are failing.
Initially, some issues were resolved after copying...
PB2025 .NET 8 Dependencies
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- Misc
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hello,
We have a frozen PB2025 app that will be replaced in Q2 of 2027. Because of security risks, we need to remove or upgrade any unsupported .NET runtimes, and this will include the removal of .NET 8 in November.
Are there any dependencies of th...
After selecting the MSOLEDBSQL19, when i enter the update properties of a datawindow, i have the problem that it is needed to type the 'dbo.' before the table name. And if i enter the sql query, the graphic mode, it is empty.
Does this say somethi...
saveas xlsx turn all the columns in excel to general format. i need some to stay number
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- Heelah Rozanski replied 3 days ago
there is an interface that i need to provide xlsx file with a certain format.
eve tough i specify the column is a number and five it number format ### aftar saveas xlsx the result is xlsx with colunmn format general.
i need numbers to be numbers
s...
Feature Request: Expose the PowerServer Session ID on the database connection
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- mike S replied 6 days ago
I have been musing a Powerserver migration problem, relating to data i the DB Session Context for that user.... e.g. UserName, Application Version.
Problem: Our app uses a single shared SQL login (common with PowerServer's pooled connections) plus D...
We are using the "Always use the Evergreen Runtime at the client" option for distributing the WebView2 Runtime.It was our understanding that if not installed, PowerBuilder would be prompted as such with the URL to provide further direction.
Choosing...
Handle( GetApplication() ) returns 0 in a Shared Process in EXE
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi
Handle( GetApplication() ) returns 0 in an executable running which uses a shared object. We use Handle( GetApplication() ) = 0 to determine if the application runs from the IDE or as executable.
PB 2025 R2 6430
I don't know if this is an error...
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