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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. :)
Hi fellow PB Professionals
We're migrating some UO code from EXE to PBNI invoked via IIS endpoint
The legacy code uses SharedObject API to maintain state across inter UO calls
...
Stability of debugger
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 7 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
PB 2017 R3/ W10/build 1858
I have been using PB Classic from 10.5, all versions up to 12.6, when finally migrating to 2017 R3.
Alle versions have had exactly the same annoying problem. PB frequently crashes when manually closing the debugger, an...
How to Change the PowerBuilder program DEP: false to true
- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi Team,
Our Security team are scanning our PowerBuilder programs.
They have some security issue need us to fix.
I want to ask how we can make the program exe file DEP: false to true.
We are using PB2022 R3 Build 3356 for development.
...
EAN13 font (with OpenType features) not working for PB
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
I am trying to create datawindow labels with EAN-13 barcode using OpenType fonts as Libre Barcode EAN13 Text from google, but for some reason this kind of font demands enable special feature such as on MSWord "Fonts / Advanced / Contextual Alternates...
Is anyone else seeing staggeringly huge performance issues in applications built on anything PB2022 or newer?
We have a large application that we recently migrated to PB 2022 R3. We've used both builds 3356 and 3441, as well as PB 2025.
3556 seemed...
PB compatibility | Upgrading Citrix from Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
We are planning to upgrade the Citrix windows machine with Windows Server 2022 instead of 2019 version. Will there be any issues/challenges with this for compatibility with our PB version?
Below are the application parameters that we are using:-
...
Year of date field changing after typing in last digit (64-bit)
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Angie Liu@Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi,
We migrated our application to 64-bit and are facing a strange problem with date columns on datawindows having an editmask (now dd-mm-yyyy). Occasionally, after typing the last digit of the year, the year changes to another year, so 2023 becomes...
PB2025 beta : opensheet issue
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi,
Opening a main window within an mdi frame with opensheet() doesn't display anything. However, it appears in the opened windows list in the MDI frame's menu.
The same window is displayed when opened with open().
Running on Windows 11 Enterprise...
How to Open Powerbuilder 2022 R3, after installing PowerBuilder 2025.
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Philip Troise replied 2 months ago
I just installed PowerBuilder 2025
I tried but still have not yet successfully migrated my 2025 application
I want to open an older version of my application that I did not try to migrate into Powerbuilder 2025.
How do I open and still use Powerbu...
Mirgration of powerbuilder R3 to Powerbuilder 2025 issue
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Upgraded from Powerbuilder 2022 R3 to Powerbuilder 2025
Forces me into a migration, but it keeps asking for database profile.
Mine is ODBC.
I keep picking it, and it asks again on the very next object.
I tried to just create a new one figuring it...
We are currently using PowerBuilder to upload files to an FTP server by executing a curl command through Run() calls. The file upload process completes, but PowerBuilder does not provide upload status or log output, therefore we cannot confirm whethe...
PDFDocument - Changing the export method to native PDF dynamically
- Resolved
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Hi and TGIAF (Thanks God it's Almost Friday),
I'm using the new PDF print in 2025:
ldw_report = uo_tab_pane.of_get_selected_tab()
lpdf_doc = Create PDFDocument
ll_return = lpdf_doc.importdatawindow( ldw_report)
but before that I'm setting a few ...
How to count Lines of Code in Powerbuilder
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- PETCHIMUTHU MAYAN replied 2 months ago
Hi All,
How to count Lines of Code in Powerbuilder (inclusive of dw, uo, menus, windows etc)? Is there any way in doing that in powerbuilder
Thanks Rgds,
Mani.S
read & writing BLOBs PS2025
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Rafał Blecharz replied 2 months ago
Hello.
I'm using PS 2025 and it's really promising. Using Kestrel or remote IIS. The application works well, saving and reading data works without any problems. However, I'm having trouble read writing BLOBs. Simple instructions
Blob LblobSELECTBL...
Remote desktop - application crash on reconnect
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 months ago
When we start our Powerbuilder app in a RDP/RDS session - and we close the session (closing with the "X" - so not doing a loggoff) and then reconnect to the same sesion afterwards in many cases the application crashes. It just disappears (got closed)...
PowerServer 2025 failed to run because it cannot connect to the license server
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
When I try to start Powerserver on my Windows 11 desktop I get this error in the log:
Title: PowerServer failed to runMessage: PowerServer failed to run because it cannot connect to the license server and the PowerServer license has not gone through...
SMTP TLS setsender command has no effect on changing the reply email address
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Power builder version R2 2022 build 2828.
using the below logic for TLS not functioning properly using setsender. SSL works fine with setsender.
Used setsender to Set the reply email address to a different one than the one used to send it.
I get a...
after refresh and full build, refresh generates one of the libraries
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- John Fauss replied 2 months ago
Hi cool Appeonians,
Just got the new version 2025.
Opening the IDE, doing refresh for the entire workspace, then full build - All is good.
Then I do refresh again and for some reason, the refresh generates 1 library, and the application no longer ...
Get PBL Objects via external Tool (.Net App)
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 7 years ago
- Mark Rezmer replied 2 months ago
Hello Community,
We are looking for a way to determine the object-list of a PBL by an external tool. The external tool is a C# application. Is there perhaps an Appeon / Sybase library which one could import in the C# for it?
The point of all of...
There is currently no matching version,Lowest Supported Version:19.2.0.2670
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Nathan Mitton replied 2 months ago
Hello everybody,
I have a problem with the delivery of Powerbuilder (Version 2019 R3 Build 2670, Runtime 19.2.0.2670).I was just about to use the new version for one of our customers and ran into the following problem.
How did I proceed:- uninstall...
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