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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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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- Last updated 4 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. :)
Hi, all!
The issue is the folowing: The Breakpoints and Watch settings of the Debug Painter are being lost when the IDE is closed and then re-opened.
Using PB 2022 R3 Build 3289.
Thanks for helping.
datawindow receiving wrong parameter
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- Last updated 2 hours ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 43 minutes ago
good day all,
when I login I am receiving this error message: as first
and as second:
the object d_pfcsecurity_controllist exists in my library : mey_ext_gefis.pbl, I have it created, and the methods for the security calls another library: the...
Application Performance issues with PS 2022 R3
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- Last updated 4 hours ago
- mike S replied 2 hours ago
I'm reaching out to discuss an important issue we're experiencing post our migration from PS 2020 to PS 2022 R3. We've noticed that all our applications are running extremely slow on our office laptops compared to the PS 2020 version. Interestingly, ...
I have asked a similar question before, but I need a couple of points clarified.To be clear on my part: when I say "sources" I am talking about the human-readable files with extensions like .srd for data windows and .srw for window windows. Binarie...
i am wondering if this is a known bug for infomaker/pb and if someone has a work around. I currently have a Rich Text Format field i am displaying in an infomaker freeform datawindow. When the report generates it does not initially display the RTF fi...
Our App's call to WScript.Shell.Run() fails on new laptops, but fine on older laptops.
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Chris Fauvel replied 4 hours ago
We recently got new laptops with Windows 11 Enterprise. These new laptops have been configured to take away Admin rights, however the issue is present on my new laptop which has admin rights.
The issue: In several spots in our powerbuilder 11.5 ap...
Programmatically Logging out InfoMaker Users upon Session Timeout
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- Last updated 7 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 hours ago
Hello,
We have a Citrix environment where we host an application for external clients, including integrating InfoMaker for some power users. Recently we have had an issue where these users are leaving their computers with InfoMaker logged in, and wh...
We're trying to make .pbsln, subversion check out and get a lock on objects in a library in the painter
By the looks of it, subversion sourcecontrol integration on powerbuilder 2025 solutions projects does not seem to support check out and lock obje...
PB 2025 Merge Multiple PDF documents capability
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- How-to
- Last updated 6 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 5 hours ago
Does PowerBuilder 2025 have native capability with PDFDocument object to merge multiple PDF files into a single PDF (without PDF acrobat Professional)? If so is there some sample code and if not are there other available options to accomplish this ta...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 hours ago
After migrating my program to PB 2025 I was notified by a user that the Excel export (to XLSX) no longer worked. Export to Excel XLS still works. There are no errors. The program thinks it is creating a file, but nothing is there. I've looked at all ...
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 (Build 3441) – AutoBuild and IDE Crash due to PBSHR.DLL
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- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
We are currently migrating a PowerBuilder application from PB 2022 R3 Build 3891 to Build 3441. As part of our CI/CD process, we are using PBAUTOBUILD220.exe to perform automated builds.
However, during the migration, we are encountering a crash wit...
After performing webdeploy these warnings are appearing, however our application does not use or reference objects or connections to Oracle.
Facing error on invoking SOAP Webservice
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- Last updated 9 hours ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 8 hours ago
HII'm facing an issue on a Desktop application which uses SoapConnection object to invoke a call to SOAP webservice it couldn't enable a communication using TLS 1.2 (the secured connection in place HTTPS) it throws an exception as "underlying connect...
Issue with using mouse wheel when working with Citrix (pbdw170.dll)
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Amit De Picciotto replied 2 days ago
Dear all,
Customer facing issues with the using of mouse wheel over data window and it been found that the pbdw170.dll interact with the Citrix client, the issue is not present when accessing the data window directly on the Citrix server itself.
...
Powerbuilder Application Icon
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hello,
I have a customer who wants to send email notifications when various conditions arise in the database. The user wants to include a link to Powerbuilder in the email and when the user clicks the link, open the PB application and go straight to...
Downgrade a PowerServer application
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Michael Connell replied 3 days ago
Hi,
I have a PowerServer application that I wish to downgrade to an ordinary PowerBuilder application. Is that possible and if so, how?
Regards,
Michael Connell.
Converting from Workspace to Solution: Compilation failed, code = -3
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Tamas Polgar replied 3 days ago
After I installed the PB 2025 Released verision Build 3683, the convertion from workspace to solution fails:
---------- Building project plp[ERROR] Compilation failed, code = -3.---------- Done Building project plp---------- Finished Full build of s...
Error with passing date value to functions from datawindow
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 days ago
Hello,
maybe I face an issue on calling a function with the argument type "date" in a computed column in a datawindow.
If I call the function in a script it works perfectly. Calling the same function in a compute it returns nothing.
When I change ...
Error C0051: Unknown function name of_setWindowtoopen
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- New
- Issue
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 4 days ago
I have the following function:
public function integer of_start (long al_prt_prf_id, string as_dotfile, string as_formcode, string as_exportpath, boolean ab_show_at_end);
BOOLEAN lb_Open = FALSE // Is the template open?
BOOLEAN lb_connected = FA...
Solution compilation error
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 4 days ago
Hi
PowerBuilder 2025 Build 3711
Windows Server 2019
After converting from Workspace, compilation of Solution fails:
[ERROR] Compilation failed, code = -3.---------- Finished Full build of project tc_lizing (14.37.55)---------- Elapsed: 00:01.237
...
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