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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year 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 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Cannot start PB/IM 2019
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Benoit Wiame replied 49 minutes ago
I have PB/IM 2019 Build 2170. We have a tool app that still uses it, we haven't gotten around to migrating to PB 2022.
On 5/13 I was using it. Now when I double-click the shortcut, nothing happens. If I try running as admin, I get a system message:
...
PBNI & LUA -- Use PBNI to encapsulate the functions provided by Lua
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- YuSeok Kim replied 1 hour ago
Can Appeon provide some Lua functional extension libraries encapsulated with PBNI, so that developers can use some functions that PB itself does not have, such as HashTable, and it can also provide another solution for multithreading.global type n_lu...
How to display running total (cumulative sum) in a PowerBuilder DataWindow?
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- Last updated 1 hour ago
Hi everyone,
I'm working with a Tabular DataWindow in PowerBuilder that displays monthly totals per category. The data loads correctly using Retrieve(), and I see rows like 2025-01, 2025-02, etc., with correct monthly values.
Now, I want to show a ...
Hello all,
PB 2025 3683, I converted my workspace to a solution without issues.
Now in some Windows I am missing some scripts. There is no script on the event.
Entering edit mode I can find, but not in the IDE - see following examples:
IDE:
Ed...
Hi,
We use a WebBrowser component in the PB 2022R3 MR 3397 application (64bit).
According to the documentation, we only distribute these two files when using it as an Evergreen Runtime:
pbwebbrowser.dll
webbrowserapi.tlb.
However, we are getting...
I have PBv11.5 created .Net Web Service target/app that is deployed to .Net on a Windows server (under .Net 3.5) and requires a PowerBuilder .NET runtime (PBCLTRT115_DOTNET.MSI) to be run/preinstalled on that server for the SOAP Web Services to funct...
ConnectToNewObject("Excel.Application") without MS
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- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- André Rust replied 4 hours ago
Hello everyone,
Is it possible to process or create Excel XLSX files without using Microsoft Excel or any other Microsoft Office applications?
We are looking to stop installing or using Microsoft products on our PCs. However, our existing code snip...
PowerServer 2020 Application not running in Windows 11 24H2
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 hours ago
We are still on PowerBuilder 2019R3 and PowerServer 2020 and our application was working fine. We normally use kernel32.dll to access some windows functions. Some of our users upgraded with the latest Windows 11 24H2 version and the application s...
PowerBuilder creating multiple connections to DB in certain scenario
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 hours ago
Hi Gurus
We are using PowerBuilder 2023R3, Sybase ASE 6.0 and SQL Server 19.
We have noticed that in certain condition, PB Client is creating a new connect to DB when doing a select to address table to fetch existing data.
Create New Account
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Run time DLLs to use the PDFDocument object
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- Last updated 19 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 8 hours ago
We are going to use PDFDocument object in our application.
Do we need any run time DLLs to be deployed along with the application to use the PDFDocument?
My printer was preloaded A4 paper as the default paper and itreports wrong paper size with following code.
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.Paper.Size=256")
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.CustomPage.Length=297")
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.CustomPag...
Customize my regional settings in my app
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- How-to
- Last updated 20 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 9 hours ago
Good morning everyone. Is there any way to customize or define my regional settings for my app?
I have an app that apparently changes the regional settings, so in PowerBuilder I get this example:
June 5, 2025
sometimes it's reversed. 05/06/2...
Runtime error. My app closes without displaying an error.
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- Last updated 5 days ago
- JOSE WILLIAM ROMERO OLIVOS replied 18 hours ago
Good morning, everyone. Is there any way to identify or capture a runtime error? My PB 2022 R2 app simply crashes, completely dying without showing me an error.
I'm running a for loop and in that loop I generate some jsonfor i=1 to jfx_generate_json...
Runtime error. My app closes without displaying an error on execute JSON Files Generator
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- Last updated 2 days ago
- JOSE WILLIAM ROMERO OLIVOS replied 18 hours ago
Good morning, dear all. I've been trying for weeks to figure out what the error is when generating JSON files en masse.
The statement is a for loop, in which JSON files are generated, but the application always closes completely and doesn't displa...
Hello,
Using PB 2019R3 Build 2803, Runtime: 2703. 32 bit application
Getting the following error, when running the application
Load Library failed: dll name pbvm.dll, runtime path: C:\Appeon\PowerBuilder Runtime Packager\Runtime 19.2.0.2703
Thi...
Peculiar issue: Opening of Workspace in Powerbuilder opens a webbrowser sheet with some random search
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- Last updated 5 days ago
- Sivaprakash BKR replied 22 hours ago
Hello,
This issue may or may not be relevant to PowerBuilder. But this happens only when I open a workspace in PowerBuilder, that too in one computer only.
When I open a workspace by navigating to a folder, it opens a new sheet in the currently ope...
App window becomes maximized after the screen turns on again
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 days ago
- William Hong replied 1 day ago
I have set the screen to turn off in 1 minute after there is no operation on my Windows 10. But after the screen turns on again, my PB window will be maximized automatically, anyone knows why?
Problems with RibbonBar: It consumes too much GDI resources.
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 day ago
130 GDI handles / per RibbonBar control.
Our program uses Tab controls in many windows, with a large number of tabpages. In each tabpage, RibbonBar is used instead of CommonButton. However, one consequence of this is that the RibbonBar consumes too ...
Appeon Web Library error: The column type does not match.
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Dear PowerBuilders colleagues,
I encountered this issue when using PowerBuilder 2019 R3 on the front end and SQLServer 2018 on the back end.
I deployed my application as a web application, created a package, and then installed it on the client serv...
PowerBuilder IDE Crashing randomly on open or close of window
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Jeff Gibson replied 1 day ago
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3397Windows 10 Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045, 4651)I have a contract that I'm deep in the middle of that is for a state federal organization that unfortunately can't release the code to Appeon to look for this bug. Either wa...
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