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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 11 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 5 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 5 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
How To: Integrate Agentic AI With My PowerBuilder Application
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi all.
I am wondering if anyone had luck integrating their PowerBuilder application in an agentic AI fashion.
For example:
User opens your deployed PB App
Starts chatting with the AI, ChatGPT for example
Then asks said AI to create a Purcha...
Compiler: [FATAL]: Exception occurred while linking
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hi all
I am trying to test solution so I converted an app and trying to compile it.
I am getting the following error:
[FATAL]: Exception occurred while linking, exception code =0xc0000005.
PB 2025R2 - Runtime 3726
Any ideas?
Get original value in Datawindow Expression
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Luis Avilan replied 2 months ago
Hi everyone
Quick question:Does anyone know if I can access the original value of a Datawindow column in a Datawindow expression?
In Powerscript, I can easily get the original value using the getitemxy methods:
dw.getitemstring(row, "my_column", P...
Problem with quoted identifier with pb2022/Ado.net/sql server
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hello
I have an Powerbuilder 2025 application, with database sql server. We connect to the database with ado.net. My problem is when in a sql i have a string with "Value", it's not reconized. What i can do if i don't want modify all the applicatio...
Appeon PowerBuilder Certification
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Richard Frantz replied 2 months ago
So this is odd, the below job posting is mandating Appeon PB certification. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Is there and I missed it?
https://www.dice.com/job-detail/67b90034-3d3a-4814-931d-ef5e0536470c
Secure Connection Encryptor standalone tool
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Diego Marrero replied 2 months ago
Hi all.
It would be nice to have the new Secure Connection Encryptor as a standalone tool that could be deployed in the customer's system. I was wondering if anyone has developed anything like this, or if Appeon has thought about providing it.
Be...
Hi all,
for years we are using PBNISMTP.We had no issue with our SMTP while using the connection_type = 2 (STARTTLS property) inside PBNISMTP object.The new SMTPClient object has no STARTTLS property and it is implied that is autoconfigured by the p...
PowerBuilder DW Resetting Update Properties
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Did I read somewhere that PB auto resetting update properties when you change the sql behind a dw is going to be fixed? Or is already fixed?
I am currently working with the following environment:
PowerBuilder 2025 R2, Build 6430Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL ServerMicrosoft SQL Server 2022 and SQL Server 2025I have identified a possible issue when attempting to create a DataWindow ba...
Hello
I want to add a XML-file to a PDF. If I do it the MIME type of the file will be application/octet-stream. But I need text/xml.
How can I manage that in Powerbuilder 2025 R2 (PDFnative)?
Regards
Roy
Product: PowerBuilder 2022 R2, Build 2819 (GA offline installer)
Environment: Windows Server/Client (Intune-managed endpoint), previous PowerBuilder version was deployed with IDE-only footprint successfully
Issue Description:
We are attempting to ...
Clipboard function aborts with very large data
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
PowerBuilder 2022 GA Build 1892
We are getting aborts in a window when the clipboard contains a very large string. I tracked down the abort to this:
ls_clipboard = ClipBoard()
The data in the clipboard is 281,232 KB which I determined by pasting i...
More of a tip than a question, to select an entire code block
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
I haven't seen this documented anywhere, so thought I'd pass it along. In the new powerscript editor, if you collapse an outlined code block, you can select the entire block by either triple-clicking on the remaining visible line, or by clicking on o...
FYI, Couple of issues just found in 2025R2 migration
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 2 months ago
I'll be submitting a bug for 1, and the other is in the latest open source PFC, just thought I'd give a heads up here. I don't think either are specific to 2025R2, just that I found them during our migration.
1. Coding a timer(interval) method in th...
SQL Anywhere Installer
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
I'm setting up a new laptop. I installed SQL Anywhere 17.
I have build 17.0.4.2053. Installation of PowerBuilder 2022 tells me that certain stored procedures won't work unless I have 17.0.4.2088 or later.
I haven't been able to find an installer fo...
Hi Team,
we are using power builder 11.5 version, Shall i get power builder 11.5 version, in appeon product matrix. Please suggest on this your suggestion will be much appreciate.
Regards,
vijay.
Format menu in Windows Painter
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hello,
Is it me or Alt+O does not open the Format menu anymore in Windows Painter in PB 2025 R2?
Best regards,Konstantin
Hi Appeon Team, We are facing a display issue after migrating our application from PowerBuilder 2017 (v10.6) to PowerBuilder 2022 R3.Customer environment: Citrix (Windows Server) Local environment: Windows 11 with dual monitors SQL Server backend (no...
PB2025R2 PerMonitorV2 — initial window layout wrong when primary monitor is scaled
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Environment: PowerBuilder 2025 R2, Runtime 25.1.0.6430, 64-bit. Application HighDpiMode = PerMonitorV2(4). Windows 11.
Issue: When the compiled EXE starts while the PRIMARY monitor is scaled above 100% (e.g. 125% or 150%), the main window's initial ...
Hello,
I was wondering if you could share your experiences with dealing with shared libraries when working with Git and PB's native interface. With SVN and PBSCC Proxy, we've been using svn:externals to include required common libraries to the appli...
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