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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 6 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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- 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. :)
Build single PBD outside IDE, with 'solution' approach
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- How-to
- Last updated 14 hours ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
I am using PB 2025 solutions. Is there any way to build a single project pbd outside the IDE? I know I can build an entire project using pbautobuild, but I am looking for a faster approach. ie: a full build of a project in the ide takes me about 5 mi...
Hi everyone, lately, while working in the PowerBuilder IDE, I've been receiving this error message very frequently: "Fatal Disk Error, retry?" Clicking "cancel" makes it go away, and it doesn't seem to cause any other problems, either when running th...
Good morning,
We recently migrated from SAP ASE database server to MS SQL Server (Azure Managed Instance), which works smoothly. Previously, we used the native driver for connecting to SAP ASE (Sybase Open client). However, we're experiencing a prob...
client install error pb server 2025
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- Angie Liu@Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
I hope someone can help.
I have a user who is getting an error message when trying to run the web application
we are using powerserver 2025.
we get a couple of error lines error [14312] failed to unzip file c:\users\......\appdata...............
Environment: PowerBuilder 2022 R3 (Build 22.2.0.3441), SQL Server, MSOLEDBSQL driver
Summary:The DataWindow SQL parser scans the entire SQL text including -- line comments for :identifier patterns and interprets them as retrieval argument binding ...
PowerServer deployment that previously worked now missing random datawindow objects
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
I have an application that we are working on porting from classic client/server to PowerServer in PB 2022r3 build 3397. It has been successfully deployed as a PowerServer application several times to our azure web farm. The most recent "build and dep...
We are migrating from PB/Sybase to PB/SQL Server. In the old Sybase Server/DBs the CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL setting was turned OFF, so that SELECT NULL + Hello would equal Hello.
In SS, The MSOLEDB Driver (and ODBC as well) automatically issues a CON...
Hello,
I have a custom menu item in the PowerBar, my item command runs an EXE (with parameters).
The exe application run correctly via RUN, but when I try to run it from menu item the PB IDE crashes.
Event log details:
Faulting application name:...
PowerBuilder Datawindow Printing - File Name Auto Population Issue
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Our PowerBuilder application (PB2022 R3) includes an invoice print screen. During printing, we dynamically generate the file name (ls_doc_name) via embedded SQL and assign it to the DataWindow using:
dw_doc_layout.Modify("DataWindow.Print.DocumentNa...
Corrupt? pbdom_document object in 2025 open source PFC
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- René Ullrich replied 1 day ago
We ae upgrading from 2022R3 to 2025 and Migrating PFC from version 12 to the current 2025 open source version. Until now, we have been using PBDOM2022.pbd for pbdom functionality.
We see with the newer PFC, the pbdom wrapper objects have been added ...
Error when we uncomment the SQL on the database painter editor
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
We get an error when we uncomment the SQL on the database painter editor (PB 2025 Version 3726). I have attached the screenshot of the error.
Please advise. thanks
SQL Server Native client deployment to end users
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Panos Platanas replied 2 days ago
We are using Appeon PB 2025 with MS SQL Server 2022 as the DB deploying the application (EXE, INI, PBD) to the users desktop using Native SQl Server client (Not ODBC).
How can we deploy the SQL Server drivers (Native Client)? Can this just be a p...
Good day,
I am trying to deploy may project using powerclient in PB2025... I encounter a problem when validating the connection... However if I test connection in PB2022 it is ok...
attached is the screen shot error.
Thank you very much!
PB/SQL Server calling SP with RETURN Value
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- How-to
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Markus Eckert replied 2 days ago
We are migrating from PB2025/Sybase to PB2025/MS SQL Server. We have lots of SPs written 25 years ago that has a mix of OUTPUT parms RETURN in the SPs these SPs are being called from PB. Works fine in getting the RETURN value and the OUTPUT parms i...
DLL conflict between .NET Framework and .NET 5 when called from PowerBuilder application
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 3 days ago
Hi everyone,
Im facing an issue with a 32-bit application that combines PowerBuilder and .NET components.
Our setup:
A PowerBuilder application invokes .NET DLLs.We have two different applications installed on the same machine.One application uses...
PowerBuilder and 508 compliance for colorblind users
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Roland Smith replied 3 days ago
I'm supporting a 1996 PowerBuilder application that was developed at 640x480 resolution. Our current default resolution is 1920x1080. I've worked with 508 issues before by converting hard coded color schemes to windows color standards, and some of th...
Issue with Encoding Type while Reading from file in PowerBuilder2022
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 3 days ago
Hi All,
We have upgraded our code from PB2017 to PB2022. Post upgrade we are observing that when our code is trying to read and upload data from an external .txt file which contains French characters is causing an issue. It is not able to read the f...
DECLARE lsp_get PROCEDURE ...FAILING
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 days ago
we are migrating from PB 2025/Sybase to PB 2025/MS SQl Server.
We have the below code in Sybase running fine:
DECLARE lsp_get_instr PROCEDURE FOR ctp_get_cur_cs_def_instr @a_retval_out = 0 OUTPUT, @a_message_out = "" OUTPUT, @a_parms...
How to prevent pbautobuild250.exe from updating all PBD timestamps during incremental builds?
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Huang YU-LUN replied 1 week ago
I am using pbautobuild250.exe to build the solution project. Even when performing an incremental build, the timestamps of all PBD files are still updated. Is there a way to make it behave like a PBT build, where only the modified or linked components...
Update Power Client version to 3726 - I can't find instructions
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 1 week ago
Sorry - I have probably missed something obvious but I have updated my PB2025 IDE to 3726 and now I cannot seem to find how to update my IIS server with runtimes properly. Had a go myself but its not working. All the instructions and help I can find ...
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