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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 7 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 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. :)
x64 Option in PowerBuilder 2025 BETA IDE?
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Arthur Hefti replied 4 weeks ago
The PowerBuilder 2025 BETA IDE only has an "x86" option in the "Platform" dropdown in the IDE's "PowerBar1"...is this intentional? I checked the "What's New" and didn't see any mention of x64 being unavailable.
In the past I have needed to set...
Solution Desired: How Can a PB App Recognize it is Running as a Solution?
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Since the LibraryDirectory/LibraryDirectoryEx PowerScript functions have been neutered when an app is executing from the IDE in solution form, how can an app recognize when it is running as a PB solution?
I have a multi-threaded data retrieval examp...
Replace functions cannot work on the PBL folders in PB2025
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi,
I read in the documentation that after migration to PB2025, some functions used in reflection are disabled:
I use follow functions:
FindClassDefinition
FindFunctionDefinition
FindTypeDefinition
How can I replace these funct...
WebView2 WebBrowser Control Memory Usage Growth Problem
- Issue
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi PowerBuilder Community,
We recently upgraded out application to a PowerBuilder 2022r3, and are finding that the application memory growth is larger than before.
We think that one cause may be the WebBrowser control. The upgrade involved moving f...
Hi
Am I the only one who gets this error message (without any further information) when trying to build a large project?
Remakrs
In this case, it's the output from PBAutoBuild250 /pbc
I get the same error if I build/deploy inside the IDE
It'...
PB 2022R3 Build 3397, Powerserver https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json error
- Advice
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi All
We have recently upgraded to PB 2022R3 Build 3397. We are now trying to do the Build and Deploy in Powerbuilder and have encountered the error below.
F:\work\Powerserver\source\repos\nmacsci\UserExtensions\UserExtensions.csproj : error NU130...
Hello,
I am looking for a way to set up a system with preferably one PowerBuilder workspace connected to TFS VC, for work by multiple users.
Where only one user can be logged in to the system at the same time.
Currently, the system is configure...
Show Reports in datawindows data stored as RTF in SQL Server
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi, I am using PowerBuilder 2022 R2 and I currently have reports stored as RTF in a text-type field in a SQL Server 2022 table. I need to display these reports in a datawindow so that the user can print or export them to PDF. These reports can be som...
powerserver --> there is currently no matching version, Lowest Support version:
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 weeks ago
any idea what would cause this in powerserver? We did do an update and prior to that the user ran fine. The runtime did not change with the update, just the application was updated.
This is only for 1 user, all our others are fine. checked the we...
Security issue with CloudLauncher
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi,
We are running PB2022 R2 Build 2828.
We have an issue with running an application that is using PowerClient on Windows 11.
While we are trying to run the application Windows is showing an error message:
The application launcher is unabl...
Error when creating database profile in PB2017R2-1756 to connect to SQL Server
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Daniel Seguin replied 1 month ago
I have a client that is using using PB 2017 R2 - build 1756
I will be migrating it to PB 2022 R3 in the new year 2025.
But before we do that migration, the client wants to migrate from Sybase ASE to SQL Server
In order to test the connectivity bet...
Problem with ADO in runtime after upgrade PB from 2019 to 2022R3
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Tracy Huang @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
connect to a SQL-server DB with ADO doesn't work in runtime environment after upgrading the application from 2019 to 2022R3. In the development environment everything works fine. But when I have distribute the runtime files to the testenvironmen...
IDE: registrationfree use of ActiveX-Controls - Use of Manifest file
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Brian McCarthy replied 1 month ago
Hi,
We currently use some ActiveX controls in Powerbuilder. To be able to use the ActiveX controls without registering them at runtime, we decided to add manifest entries for the corresponding DLL files. The DLLs are deployed by us relative to the E...
Unable to start IDE - Invalid parameter from the client side
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
After using PB2022 R2 for about 6 hours this day, the IDE crashed (no surprises here).Now each time I am trying to start it, I get the following message, so I am unable to use IDE!
I tried restarting the computer (Windows 11 Enterprise 22H2), rein...
PowerClient Install client error
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I am using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356. When trying to install the application using the PowerClient project, it starts downloading files, but the download gets interrupted as shown in the image. Does App Launcher generate any log where we can se...
pbni object creation error
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Charlie Shilling replied 1 month ago
Dear experts,
As my first pbni attempt, created pbni nvo pbadd as given in pbni example. The object was created using win32 option in Visual studio 2019. The object could be imported as pb extension and it displays the function f_add(). If we click ...
Software fails to execute after migration from PB17 to PB19 and PB22
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hello everyone,
I manage and maintain two PB applications A and B, A being quite complex and B a tool to manage accesses to A, linked to several Oracle i9 databases.
They are developped in PB2017R3 #1915, which will soon become obsolete so we are ...
Sheetlist in Ribbonbar
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
Is there a way to change the "Sheetlist" name in the Ribbonbar that PB 2025 may create from a menu?
FileDelete function does not delete file on PB2019 R3, PB2022 R3
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi Team,
I am encountering an issue while attempting to delete a .pdf file generated in a temporary folder on my machine. Below are the steps to replicate the problem:
Copy the contents of the file into a blob variable.
Create a .pdf file in the...
Is there any way to secure a pbl so that only certain users can access it? We are looking at the possibility of creating an Infomaker report that contains FERPA data. Since it contains FERPA data, we want to limit the users that can see the report....
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