- Van Sederburg
- PowerBuilder
- Wednesday, 9 February 2022 06:00 PM UTC
I have an old Powerbuilder 12.5 desktop application. It has been running fine, and I'm in the process of totally rewriting it in another language.
However, I'd like it to continue to work until I can complete that project.
Recently, some windows update must have change how accessibility works, and now the application crashes constantly with a windows error on oleacc.dll.
One person did discover that there was a 32 and 64 bit version of that dll on the machine (which makes sense) and if he re-registered the 64 bit and unregistered the 32 bit, the program would start. However, if any accessibility feature is touched, even if not used with my application, my app will crash.
I'm guessing that ideally the pbacc125.dll needs a more recent version that is compatible, and I realize that this PB version is WAY past its end of life. As I said, I just wanted it to keep running long enough to rewrite it.
I thought about upgrading the the lastest PB version, but that makes it a cloud app as I understand it, and my users do not want that. A desktop application is just fine. Plus I don't want spend a lot of money on a platform I'm moving away from.
Any suggestions on a possible, at least temporary, solution for this issue?
Thank you
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