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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- 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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- 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. :)
PowerBuilder support for .NET 10 assemblies
- Misc
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
We are using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 (MR 3397) with .NET assembly invocation for ActiveMQ communication.
Our current .NET components are built on .NET 8.0 and run successfully using pbdotnetinvoker.runtimeconfig.json.
We are now upgrading our Visual S...
Issue of accessing Backend Objects in the multiple Instances of Powerserver web app.
- Issue
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- mike S replied 4 weeks ago
we are migrating the our Application to Powerserver.
Backend is Oracle and for Deployment we are using IIS server.
All backend Objects access is restricted by different Roles.
The Issue:
we are running the 2 simultaneous Sessions.
First session...
PB2025-build 3711 : Import PDF / show PDF blob without using temp file
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi guys,
testdriving PB2025 - build 3711
i was looking forward to the importPDF function that can take a blob as argument.
is it possible to take the blob and show the PDF without writing it to a temp file ?
what visual object do i need to use ...
error using OAuthClient REST
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Dear Sirs, I'm having the following problem consuming a REST service of type AUTH, using OAuthClient and OAuthRequest.
I'm using PowerBuilder 2025, and the problem is as follows:
1) The first time I consume the service, it returns 200 OK.
2) The s...
We are currently migrating an application from Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5.2 ( WinForms target help page using PBDOTNET) to Appeon PowerBuilder Classic 2022R3.
In the existing code, we used the following .NET-based help invocation:
#IF DEFINED PBDOTNE...
We are currently in a challenging situation and would appreciate your guidance.
We have a backup of a Sybase ASE 16.0 database that was created about a year ago. Unfortunately, we do not have an existing Sybase environment available to restore or ac...
Need help with ldap in powerbuilder powerscript
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi guys,
It's my first time trying to connect to ldap to authenticate users with active directory
Here is my poc source code:
I am having trouble to create and execute the query to check username, can someone help.
// Password is valid if we go...
Native PDF generation (font rendering)
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi,
our customers reported a problem while generating PDFs (with the PB native PDF method) after we released the application with a newer runtime (runtime 3711 to 3726). If you use specific fonts (i.e. avenir-lt-std-35-light.otf) in the document, th...
how to restrict Datawindow scroll at runtime?
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
In the UserObject, I have multiple DataWindow controls.
At runtime, I set the height of all DataWindows to 112.
One of the DataWindows (e.g., DW_1) has the AutoSize Height property enabled for its detail band, and one of its columns also has the ...
PowerBuilder IDE proxy settings
- Resolved
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi
Adding proxy configuration support within the PowerBuilder IDE would provide significant convenience. In corporate environments, users typically access the internet through a proxy. However, the PowerBuilder application neither allows proxy confi...
PB2022 R2 PowerServer deployment - issue with crosstab truncating data
- Misc
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
We are noticing an issue with PB2022 R2 with a crosstab datawindow only returning 62 characters when deployed using PowerServer. Its defined to return 255. In the datawindow patinter, I can see the entire 255 characters. I can only see 62 characters ...
String.Split for PowerBuilder?
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Is there a String.Split functionality in PowerBuilder? I do not see it in the documents but want to make sure I am not missing something. If there is not, is there plans to add the functionality at some point?
How to encrypt plain text passwords present in .pbl file in Powerbuilder 2017 R2
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hi,
I am working on a PowerBuilder 2017 R2 application.
we want to encrypt password which are present in .pbl file as below.
Could you please suggest:
How to encrypt and decrypt password in PowerBuilder 2017 R2?which method or function should be ...
pbm_dwnmousemove + ToolTip
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Michael Krul replied 1 month ago
Hello,PowerBuilder 2022 R3, 3397
There is a DataWindow (event pbm_dwnmousemove) with two images layered one on top of the other. Each image has logic in its Visible expression to create a 'Mouseover' effect when you hover over one image, the other ...
Good morning,
my company is dipping their feet into the RibbonBar menu and I'm responsible for doing the research needed to do that switch.
I managed to setup a basic menu with XML through the RibbonBar Builder as well as setting up events for the ...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to activate PowerBuilder offline. I need to install it for a client on a machine without internet.But even though the username and password are correct, when I try to validate the client's request, the site tells me it can't f...
I want to start betatesting but need to know if 2025R2 it is stable
- Resolved
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I have downloaded the latest beta, and I can see that several showstopper issues have been fixed since the initial beta - GREAT.
However, when such severe bugs have been present before, and with the quality seeming questionable, Im a bit reluctant t...
PowerBuilder 2025 install
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Raja Chinnappan replied 1 month ago
When I downloaded the PB 2025 through the installer, installer got us the below items.
Runtime 3683
Runtime 3711
IDE and Runtime 3726
We plan to upgrade our application to the latest build PowerBuilder 2025 build 3726 (Both the IDE and runt...
Hi everyone,
PowerBuilder crashes when I open debug. My PBDEV.dll crashes.
PB 2022 R3 build 3441
Thanks
Umberto
We're on 2025 b 3726, application is 32 bit runtime.
When I set MS SQL Server compatibility option up from 2014 into 2016, SyntaxfromSQL becomes unstable, failing on many clients, but not all. Those failing may benefit from a reboot of the PC. For a...
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