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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 8 months ago
6 replies
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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12 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Template E-mail, WebBrowser control. PB2022 R2
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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Good morning, I'm using a OLE Web Browser as a E-mail template, this email is a HTML page, and i can modify manu properties as the size, font, Bold, Italic, Underline, Align, etc.. of my Template.     Can i reproduce the same is the new WebBros...
  1.  Email
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  WebBrowser
Edi Anaya Edi Anaya
  1. PowerBuilder
Is possible digital signature of PDF files natively ? PB 2022 R2
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello, Is there a way to digital sign natively pdf files ? Greetings, Edi
  1.  PDF
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Edi Anaya Edi Anaya
  1. PowerBuilder
Diff tool
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 7 years ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 1 year ago
7 replies
5707 views
0 votes
Is there a diff tool available that supports PB2017? Ive tried a few, but none of them appear to be updated for some time. I have a customer with hundreds of infomaker PBLs. They need to delete duplicates, merge multiple versions, etc.  pblCompare...
  1.  InfoMaker
George Hannah George Hannah
  1. PowerBuilder
Error deploying 64-bit application
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
10 replies
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0 votes
Hello, Happy holidays to everyone!! I am trying to deploy as 64-bit but PB 2022 R2 crashes. The only error I can see is in the Event Viewer... Faulting application name: pb220.exe, version: 22.1.0.2819, time stamp: 0x64c36da2Faulting module name: ...
Mike Kochevar Mike Kochevar
  1. PowerBuilder
Oracle error only on Azure server
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Carl Bolduc replied 1 year ago
3 replies
1088 views
0 votes
We migrated an application to PowerServer and deployed it inside IIS on an Azure server. Most of the functionalities are working as expected except for one DataWindow. When running the application, we get this error after loading the DataWindow: 1861...
  1.  Azure
  2.  PowerServer
Carl Bolduc Carl Bolduc
  1. PowerServer
How to release excessive allocated memory
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
3 replies
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0 votes
I have a PB 2022 app that uses multi-threading (SharedObject functions) to receive messages via Winsock and update a SQL Anywhere database. The app is running on a server that doesn't have a lot of memory. I'm wondering if there is a way to tell the...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
Upgrading Oracle 19c - PB2022 Build 1900
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Aurangzeb Qaimkhani replied 1 year ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hey guys, Our company is in process of upgrading to oracle v19c. is there any known dependencies, conflicts, and resolutions including oracle client Oracle database drivers version needed to upgrade PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1900 applications to orac...
Aurangzeb Qaimkhani Aurangzeb Qaimkhani
  1. PowerBuilder
Virus in application created by PB
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 1 year ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Question for Appeon team. I have a very small application developed in Powerbuilder 2022. When I check the exe file 'with "https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload" it detects 3 viruses:  - Gen:NN.ZexaF - Trojav.Genric@A1.89 - Suspicious.Low.Ml...
  1.  .EXE
Maymone Dahan Maymone Dahan
  1. PowerBuilder
ole.InserFile() failing with rc=-9
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
4 replies
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0 votes
I am trying to add a .pdf file using the ole.InsertFile() function. It is returning a -9 (=Other error) I can open the .pdf file successfully in Adobe Acrobat and in Firefox so the file is valid. The .pdf file is on my C: drive. I can add other f...
Gene Kanten Gene Kanten
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow Saveas to Excel
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Ivan Aase replied 1 year ago
5 replies
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0 votes
Hi, We are using saveas to excel from datawindow.  While doing so we want to the Datawindows column heading as heading text in Excel. Is there any way to achieve so ? As for now it's always the datatable (sql select) column name that is refered in...
Ivan Aase Ivan Aase
  1. PowerBuilder
PBX in 64 environment
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
6 replies
1008 views
0 votes
Hi everyone, i have a pbx library to intercept sap event in my powerbuilder application. I'm making migration my application to powerbuilder 2022 I have compiled my pbx in 32 environment and sdk pbini 2022, imported pbx into my application. If i ...
Riccardo Pasqualetti Riccardo Pasqualetti
  1. PowerBuilder
Obfuscate Code in Snapdevelop
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Which tool or extension is recommended by Appeon to obfuscate source code (Net Assembly) using Snapdevelop?
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  32-bit
  3.  Build
  4.  C#
  5.  Compiler
  6.  .NET 6.0
Fabio Pontel Fabio Pontel
  1. SnapDevelop
TX Text Control: SetFont, SetTab programmatically
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello all! I Asked already for years and years and I wonder what will happen with this:   In a rich text edit (TX Text Control) I insert a Text with rte_1.ReplaceText("text")   I would urgent need before inserting text: - a possibility to chang...
Bernhard Giesriegl Bernhard Giesriegl
  1. PowerBuilder
SmtpClient - GMX-Mailserver blocked Mail - Date not correct (RFC-5322)
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 year ago
2 replies
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0 votes
I tried to use the new PB2022 R2 SmtpClient-Object. The Mail is blocked from "GMX Policy Restrictions". They told us, that the date-Format is incorrect (Date: Mo, 11 Dez 2023 19:55:39 +0100).I think it should be: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:55:39 +0100...
  1.  SMTPClient
Kim Gebek Kim Gebek
  1. PowerBuilder
LibraryImport
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
2 replies
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Using the LibraryImport powerscript function. The code has worked for over 15 years and we have not made any changes to the code in years. Just upgraded from PB2021 to PB2022. The code continues to work in the IDE, but once compiled it does not work....
Rick Hiebert Rick Hiebert
  1. PowerBuilder
SMTPClient - wrong Creation Time in the header
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 year ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi all,Our customer informed us about an issue with SMTPClient. His recipients are receiving emails, which is fine, but they have the wrong creation time. Instead of today's date, it is set to 2023-1-12 and they complain about it. While testing, my...
Tomáš Podzimek Tomáš Podzimek
  1. PowerBuilder
signed PS launcher downloads from web and gets flagged as possible problem
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  mike S replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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We sign the launcher, but we dont' use the super expensive Extended Validation Code due to hardware requirements (must be on a fob or similar).  As a result, edge goes out of its way to try to prevent users from downloading and installing the launche...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
Conversion of UTF8 byte array into characters using EncodingUTF8 in PB2019 failed
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello everyone! I failed when using string(blob(lb_arr), EncodingUTF8!) to convert the byte array of "?" symbol into characters. The following is my code // UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x89 0x82 byte lb_arr[] = {240,159,137,130} string ls_1 = strin...
  1.  Encoding
  2.  PowerBuilder
ma jack ma jack
  1. PowerBuilder
Best approach for using merge and Save
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi All, We have more than 200 psr files and need to generate pdf based out of them using datastore, Along with this we have a scenario where we need to merge 2 psr’s for each pdf (i.e. 100 pdf files to be created out of 200 psr’s). we are storing t...
Teegala Rajesh Teegala Rajesh
  1. PowerBuilder
datawindow picture control transparentcolor property
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Konstantin Goldobin replied 1 year ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how to use the transparentcolor property of a datawindow picture control. I think it was introduced in 11.5 but was not documented in 12.5 or even 2017. When I set it to a regular calculated RGB value in the pa...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  Picture
  3.  PowerBuilder
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder

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