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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 8 months ago
6 replies
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15 votes
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
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
5377 views
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
datawindow update error
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
3844 views
0 votes
I have a datawindow (Powerbuilder 2019 R3) that returns -1 on Update() and the following message appears : Datawindow does not have update capability. I checked the update properties and they looked correct. Suggestions?
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  Update
Raymond Longoria Raymond Longoria
  1. PowerBuilder
Question About Integrating PB 2019R2 and SVN
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Jason Schultz replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello, I have a question about the behavior we're seeing between our PB environment and SVN. Background Info:       - Our source code repository used to be managed via PVCS, we've since migrated to SVN.        - After migrating to SVN, each devel...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  SVN
  3.  TortoiseSVN
Jason Schultz Jason Schultz
  1. PowerBuilder
Webservice in Powerbuilder
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kevin Ridley replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hai all, I have a webservice link. That webservice providing a service. In that service have more methods. each method need to give some values. This I used in pb12.1 with sopaconnection method. Just few days back, service team changed their protoco...
shareef mon shareef mon
  1. PowerBuilder
.exe is not launching after new Additional Properties change in PB 2019 R2
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
1 reply
1277 views
0 votes
Hi Team, We are facing an issue where we were trying to test "RichTextEdit" control functionality which was resolved in PB2019. We have done the following configuration:-  In PB IDE, open your application and go to Application (object) -- Addition...
Tanvi Shahi Tanvi Shahi
  1. PowerBuilder
will Sonatype Nexus Vulnerability scanner support Powerbuilder application?
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
1622 views
0 votes
Hi Team, We are using Appeon PowerBuilder 2017 R2 Build version for our PowerBuilder application. We are planned for an Vulnerability scanning using "Sonatype Nexus Vulnerability scanner" which will support all open source softwares including C/C++ ...
Ashok kumar Parthiban Ashok kumar Parthiban
  1. PowerBuilder
Fix for random crash. Works for ALL pb versions including 2019 R3
  1. Resolved
  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Steen Jakobsen replied 3 years ago
7 replies
3591 views
2 votes
This trick from  Chris Pollach @Appeon is FANTASTIC!! add a pb.ini to the folder of your executable   PB.ini ------------------ [DataStore Behavior] UseHwnd=no ---------------------- I have done that for a while (2 months) now...
  1.  .EXE
  2.  Crash
  3.  PowerBuilder
Steen Jakobsen Steen Jakobsen
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 Beta - Runtime
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1786 views
0 votes
Hello, I apologize if this was asked/answered (I didn't find it with a quick search). With the new PB 2019 beta, what runtime files need to be deployed, and where are they by default? I know the IDE was separated from the runtime, and that's likely...
John Niespodzianski John Niespodzianski
  1. Beta Testing
Project Deploy - PB 2019R3 IDE closes (crashes?)
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 3 years ago
4 replies
1744 views
0 votes
I've just tried building (aka Deploying) an application project in PowerBuilder 2019 R3.  I haven't built using PowerBuilder in a very long time, we have always used PowerGen, but with all the activity and command line capability, I thought I'd give ...
Josh Chalmers Josh Chalmers
  1. PowerBuilder
AppeonIWAShell - New version is found. Update now?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
2532 views
0 votes
Hello, We have run across an issue with applications that I deploy from my machine to PowerServer.  The issue is that we cannot get the attached messagebox to stop popping up when others run my IWAs from their machines.   We have tried making sure ...
  1.  IWA
  2.  PowerServer
  3.  Update
Justin Perticone Justin Perticone
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Webservice calling method
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 3 years ago
4 replies
1916 views
0 votes
Hai all, I am recently Installed Appeon Powerbuilder R3 and planning to migrate from pb 2012 to 2019.  I just asking about the webservice calling method in R3. Anybody can explain with script ? Thanks to all.
shareef mon shareef mon
  1. PowerBuilder
Product version for PB2019R3
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
4 replies
1480 views
0 votes
We have upgraded to PB2019R3 from R2 version. Using PBC to compile the code in Jenkins. The application exe properties has File Version and Product Version. We are having issues running the exe file because of the runtime version ( Runtime 19.2.0.267...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Anna Pally Anna Pally
  1. PowerBuilder
Best Practice For Updating Content In A Local Datawindow
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
5 replies
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0 votes
I have a local datawindow that could contain many rows, but only one row would be updated at a time. I'm looking for the best practice for updating the data. Would I export just the new/changed row as a JSON and submit it to the web service? If so, ...
Joe Hess Joe Hess
  1. PowerBuilder
2019 R3 will not print
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 3 years ago
6 replies
2248 views
0 votes
We recently migrated our powerbuilder  applications to 2019 R3 from 2017.  Since then, no applications will print to a network printer.  We get, "Error Printing on" plus the name of the printer and print server.  We ran the same application with the ...
Steve Dove Steve Dove
  1. PowerBuilder
HTTPClient - Send soap with attachments
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 3 years ago
3 replies
2769 views
0 votes
Hi all, May I know is it support to send soap request with attachment (MIME type) using HttpClient object?   I have checked the SendRequest function but seems no way to add the attachment. And the PostData function is unable to send with soap bod...
  1.  HTTPClient
  2.  MIME TYPE
  3.  SOAP
Leven AU Leven AU
  1. PowerBuilder
Application Name being truncated in main window
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1704 views
0 votes
Hi I downloaded the trial version of Powerbuilder in order to get working on modifying an existing application while the licence procurement went through. I have now upgraded to the licence version, but have an issue now with the application name as...
  1.  Trial
  2.  Window
Walter O'Driscoll Walter O'Driscoll
  1. PowerBuilder
Adventures creating a Dictionary / Associative Array in PB
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
1 reply
2695 views
3 votes
Some years ago I saw the value in having an object that implements dictionary / associative array / map type functionality, mapping string names to arbitrary values, including strings, numbers, dates, and objects. That could be use for passing sets ...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  PowerScript (PS)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
Default printer doesn't work in Powerbuilder 2019 R3 but with Powerbuilder 2017
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1932 views
0 votes
hi, We set our printer to a laser printer but when we go into our Label screen we change our Default Printer to the Zebra Label printer. We then just print.(too the default) Once we out of the screen we set the default printer back  to the laser p...
Marie Bisschoff Marie Bisschoff
  1. PowerBuilder
Power Server deployment issues
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
1538 views
0 votes
Hello, We are using PowerBuilder 2019 R3 and trying to deploy on Power Server. We have few questions Can multiple developers can access the same deployment and resolve issues? If so how can we achieve it? I am getting zlib.dll error when launch...
Harish Rao Harish Rao
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Consuming ASP.Net web service in Pb 2019
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
2 replies
1787 views
0 votes
Good day Everyone!   I am just a newbie in powerbuilder and I wanted to use PB 2019 on my project which requires webservice. I haven't done or try anything yet because I don't know where to start. I already created my web service using ASP.NET Web ...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  PB Classic
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  Web Service
Avory Rose Pastoral Avory Rose Pastoral
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerclient Testing
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
1 reply
1439 views
0 votes
Hello, I am just testing PowerClient deployment the first time. starting the app on my WebBrowser I get "SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "null" from accessing a cross-origin frame." I doesn't matter, which Browser I use. How can I solve ...
Stephan Schröpel Stephan Schröpel
  1. PowerBuilder

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