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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 4 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 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. :)
Need help with PB11.5 License on the SAP site
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 months ago
Is there anybody here familiar with the SAP site to generate/view and checkin licences for PowerBuilder 11.5? Or know whom to contact at SAP to help me out.Way back when we had licenses for two programmers.
Since SAP acquired PB (way back when) , I ...
Client IP from PowerServer 2022 Application
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Dear Friends,
We have hosted our Powerbuilder 2025 application on Powerserver 2025.
We are looking to get the IP of the Client on which the App is opened.
Please advice
Thanks regards
Chakrapani S
dll importer - error not legal in current state
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi all
I am trying to import a DLL - i have successfully imported one but I have another one that give the error message
Could not load file or assembly 'name of assembly' Version=... Culture=neutral PublicKeyToken=null ' An Operation is not legal ...
Implementation api en navegador
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
hola buenos dais
espero alguien me pueda ayudar con esto
tengo una application desarrollada en PowerBuilder 2025 y compilada con power server 2025,
tengo servicios en azure
app services
blob storge
publico mi api y funciona muy bien no tengo pr...
How to count total number of objects in selected library(pbl)
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Dear Sir
How to count total number of objects in selected library (example test.pbl) ?
Please anybody can advise?
Thanks Regards
Muthu
Scrolling in a Window with code
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
After much trial and error, I can't seem to figure this out. I have a window which has a popup. In that popup, I want to scroll to a particular place on my calling window. For example, the window may contain 3 dw's and when I click on the popup I wan...
I have created a new datawindow that requires parameters to be shown, parameters are received in another datawindow that should be linked to an STRUCT , when I define the struct tells me the following : Error C0001: Illegal data type: str_aabs_report...
PB 2019 R3 - Issue deploying a Windows application
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 2 months ago
Hello Sir/Madam
I am working on an existing windows 32 bit application built in Power builder (below2019) in the past. Recently I have the new version upgraded PB 2019 R3 installed. I am unable to deploy the latest PB2019 R3 version. When I deploy...
How to implement trusted signed EXE file in Power builder application.
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 2 months ago
Our PowerBuilder applications executable files (.exe) are not signed with a trusted code signing certificate. We need to Implement this feature, Code signing verifies the publishers identity and ensures that the software has not been modified or tamp...
ORCA Script Build Time Fluctuations and PBAutoBuild Setup Help
- Advice
- Last updated 3 months ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hello Appeon Community,
I have a question regarding ORCA Script and PBAutoBuild.
A few months ago, my ORCA Script builds were consistent it used to take around 2 hours to 2 hours 5 minutes to create the EXE every time. However, recently the build ...
Need PBORCA.H and PBORCA.LIB for PowerBuilder 6.5, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.5, 12.5 (ORCA SDK)
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Hi everyone!
I'm a junior developer and Im trying to build a small C++ tool to export .pbl contents to text using ORCA. The goal is to automate the export for multiple legacy PowerBuilder versions (6.5, 7, 8, 9, 10.5, 12.5).
The problem is Im stuck...
Automatically reconnect to database after connection was terminated
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Robert Schmidl replied 2 months ago
We are in the process of moving our users to Microsoft "CloudPCs" while our database servers remain on premises.
Sometimes network and databse connections get terminated after the application or system idles for a while.This happens often while the ...
MultiSubnetFailover in PB 2025
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 months ago
If the parameter MultiSubnetFailover=True is included in the DBParm in the connection string when using MSOLEDBSQL19, will the parameter get passed by PB or ignored? I found some old questions about this parameter but nothing recent.
Objects cannot be opened in 2025 IDE
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Sverre Tvedt replied 2 months ago
Having migrated to 2025 b. 3726 (Solution), the IDE suddenly stopped working for most object types on one computer.
I can compile , exchange data with GIT, Edit Source and so on, but all painters simply start hanging on opening an object that is not...
After install of 2025 beta I can't access PB 2022 R2
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hello.
I installed PowerBuilder 2025 Beta to try it out. I went through the install process and restarted my PC. When it restarted, I couldn't find the app to start PB 2025 beta, but worse I tried to start my PB 2022 R2 and I got this error (see bel...
Cloud Launcher Failing to Upload Files
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Tim Harvey replied 2 months ago
Hello,We are in the process of moving our servers into a cloud environment. We've recently moved out Cloud Launcher server to the cloud, and we now are seeing issues running the Cloud Launcher Build and Deploy process to upload new versions to this c...
PB 2025 R2 Beta IDE and older Runtime
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi
in the Known Issues list for PB 2025 R2 there's a statement about compatibility "PowerBuilder 2025 R2 Beta (Build 6267) is not compatible with Runtime of PowerBuilder 2025".
I have 2 questions:
Will this persist when the final version of PB 2...
PDFDocument — Form fields not exposed in some imported PDF
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi,
When merging multiple PDFs using PDFDocument.ImportPDF(), some source PDFs do not expose form field groups in the target PDFDocument. Consequently, GetFormFieldGroupCount() returns 0 , and RemoveAllFormFieldGroup() has no effect.
If we import t...
itemerror event triggered on a decimal field
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Hi
I want to learn more behind the behaviour of the itemerror event. What are the validation rules?
F.ex. PB2025 build 3726
I have a datawindow connecting to sql anywhere 17 with a column decimal(20,5) edit.format and format '#,##0.00'na validatio...
PB 2025 R2 Windows 10 Support
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi
PB 2025 R2 removes support for Windows 10. Companies can buy extended Windows 10 support for up to 3 year. Would this mean that for these customers development can't move to PB 2025 R2 or is this more a statement that Windows 10 is not officially...
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