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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 2 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. :)
How to change project in source control tab of properties of workspace
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- iliyan iliev replied 1 week ago
I try to change project with button after edit of tab of source control.
When press button load last project and userid. I use Microsoft TFS.
I try to create new workspace but userid and project not changed.
Press button and load old userid and pr...
PowerBuilder 2019: Error accessing UserName property of ADSystemInfo COM object
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 1 week ago
Hello Experts,
I am working on a desktop application built using Appeon PowerBuilder 2019. The requirement is to fetch the logged-in users alias name from Active Directory. For this, I tried using the ADSystemInfo COM object provided by Active Direc...
ORCA Script Build Time Fluctuations and PBAutoBuild Setup Help
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week 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 ...
I'm trying to use PBAutobuild with Jenkins.I've configured the json file to connect to SVN and download the updated sources.If I run the PBAutobuild command from the Windows command line, I have no problems and it works. However, if I run the same co...
Opening the object list very slow
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hello to everyone,
Im using PB2025 Build 3683 on W10. Working with a solution.
When I open the object list box (in the menu "File / Open") it takes a very long time until all the objects are retrieved from the libraries. For example it takes up to ...
PBAutoBuild250.exe Fatal C0247 Exception (2nd Pcode generation)
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hello PB Community!
We're migrating from PB2022 to PB2025 and converting from binary to solution/project. It seemed to be going very well until we tried using the PBAutoBuild.
We are encountering a Fatal C0247 Exception occurred while generating PC...
Powerserver database connection and pooling
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Jay Hastings replied 2 weeks ago
We have a 25 year old PowerBuilder app that started with PB6 in 1998. The app opens and connects to the database, creating the transaction object SQLCA, and that is used the entire time the app is running. When a window opens, we create datastores an...
how to stop blinking cursor
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
i was at an elevate conference and Chris Pollack gave a solution to stop a cursor from blinking when PB was looping.
i'm tired of watching the cursor blink.
thanks for the help
Lines of code were committed and were not in the object before
- Issue
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Chava Kunshtat replied 2 weeks ago
Hello,
We work in PowerBuilder 2022 R2 Git Azure.
We often encounter the problem that lines of code were committed, but that was not actually in the local edit source code.
As we have seen, these are properties that exist in the ancestor, and ar...
Creating Azure DevOps CI Pipeline with PB2025
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hello,
I have a couple of questions regarding ADO Repos and CI pipelines using Azure DevOps for a PB application. My application is in PB2025, and I have the PB Utility installed on a self-hosted agent.
About four years ago, we migrated the PB sour...
Problems setting width of RibbonComboBoxItem control
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hi,
I'm struggling to set the width of a RibbonComboBoxItem control according to the width of the content.
Setting the AutoScale property to TRUE doesn't appear to work.
I've also tried setting AutoScale to FALSE and the BoxHeight, BoxWidth and Wi...
Buenos días
estoy tratando de entender Ribbobar
tengo un ventana principal w_mdi y necesito abrir una ventana w_sheet defino el siguiente evento el cual solo tiene un parametro
ue_buttonemployeesclicked
en el evento tiene el siguiente ...
In the latest PowerBuilder 2025 solution format, We are facing issues with debugging where We cannot evaluate expressions such as rowcount. This problem extends to other expressions as well where the evaluation during debugging is inconsistent or fai...
Runtime Packager 2025 build 3726 fails
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Sverre Tvedt replied 2 weeks ago
I am testing the workspace-to-solution feature for deployment compatibility with 2022 base version, and in the process:
The Packager program complains about a missing System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.dll from the 3726 folder.
Is the runtim...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
- Issue
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Bernhard Stoeter replied 2 weeks 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 ...
.NET DataStore Templates
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hi Appeon team.
I am using .NET DataStore Project in PowerBuilder 2025
This works great, but I have a few suggestion
Make the generated DataStoreService partial, inherited from an abstract class to allow for customisation. See: \Services\Built...
Graphical issues with Windows Zoom and Remote Desktop
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
Hi everyone,We have this problem: if the user has the zoom enabled on their client, for example, at 125%, when they access the application from the remote desktop, the PowerBuilder windows and the objects within them don't resize correctly.
On the c...
display PDF in web browser control
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Riccardo Pasqualetti replied 2 weeks ago
I have this path and try to use with web browser control but don't work
\\sc-sap10sst/b1_shr/MM1_SBOM1_DEMO_UNICO_FC2/Pdf/DT0170_17112025_10111394990002.pdf
I tried this, but it doesn't work:
wb_1.Navigate("file:///sc-sap10sst/b1_shr/MM1_SBOM1_DEM...
Slowness in PowerServer Application
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Sathishkumar S replied 2 weeks ago
Hi All,
We have deployed our PowerServer application to production and are experiencing slowness across the board for nearly all users.When comparing performance between the client-server and PowerServer versions, screens that open in 2 seconds on t...
dll importer - importing from vs app
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Andrew Davis replied 2 weeks ago
Hi,
I hope someone can point me in the right direction to get started on this.
I was talking with Bruce at the London PB meeting about importing a DLL that runs and connect to a handheld RFID reader.
I wanted to do this years ago but it was just t...
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