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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. :)
Checking to see if we can change icon
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 hours ago
- John Raghanti replied 1 minute ago
Hi! Running PB 2022 R3 build 3397.
We are looking to see if we can change the icon used in the taskbar when loading the application. It appears when the loading_ica.gif is on the screen, and it blinks while it is active and disappears when our appli...
Which files need to be added to revision control?
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Richard Hartman replied 3 minutes ago
I recently had reason to check in changes on one system, and check them out on another. When I got to the other system the changes I had made were not evident.
First, a couple if definitions:
Source files have extensions like .srd, .sru (and othe...
Multiple MDI windows - shortcuts
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 47 minutes ago
Hi all,
We have a MDI application. Our users would like to use it on multiple screensso they can see more forms at once, etc.
I was able to move a form to a new MDI window - so far so good.
But there's a problem with shortcuts. Every MDI window ha...
PB2025 Autoscript ignores my global functions
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Dan Cooperstock replied 3 hours ago
I have a lot of global functions named gf_*. If I start typing gf_ at the beginning of a line, nothing pops up. Is that what's expected? If so, why? Global variables pop up.
This is in a PB2025 solution, that has been deployed.
PowerBuilder 2025 Crash
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- Issue
- Last updated 5 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 hours ago
We have recently migrated from PowerBuilder 2022 R3 to PowerBuilder 2025 Build 3683. Additionally, our applications have been migrated to the new "Solution" structure. Since the migration, we are experiencing critical stability issues: PowerBuilder c...
Powerbuilder 10.2 exe closes unexpectedly after 5 or 10 minutes of use in Windows 11 PC
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 hours ago
Powerbuilder 10.2 exe closes unexpectedly after 5 or 10 minutes of use in Windows 11 PC. Tried compatibility mode, but did not help. Any suggestion? This do not happen in all Windows 11 PC
Bad performance on Windows Server with PB22R2 app
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- Issue
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Lukas Kluge replied 3 hours ago
Hi there,
I have received reports that our customers have bad performance with our PB22 app on Windows Server 16, 19 and 22.
Bad performance meaning that navigating the app in general takes a lot longer than usual. Apparently this was not a probl...
PB 25 Solution compilation failed
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 hours ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 5 hours ago
Hi!
We've started using PB25 and tried to migrate our code to a solution, but we got an error:
Syntax error: '-'.
Some code details:
....
if (b 0 and g = 0) then r++ b-- end if
...
formula=index-1
....
If i put a space between '-' then...
powerserver app and IIS client certificate authentication
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Miroslav Vajagic replied 7 hours ago
Dear All,
I developed PowerServer app which is hosted on IIS (remote server), SSL is enabled.
Everything works fine, until I implemented IIS client certificate authentication (enabled SSL for the site, and chose Client certificate: Required).
Afte...
A dynamic byte array needs to be shrunk before being converted to a blob. Copying byte by byte is not efficient since the array size is very large.
Is it possible to include the fonts when making PDF Native?
I have problems with PDF viewers on mobiles that do not display the Consolas font correctly.
Before using PDF Native, we used PDFCreator to make our PDF and it included the fonts...
PB2025 beta : opensheet issue
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- John Fauss replied 14 hours ago
Hi,
Opening a main window within an mdi frame with opensheet() doesn't display anything. However, it appears in the opened windows list in the MDI frame's menu.
The same window is displayed when opened with open().
Running on Windows 11 Enterprise...
Webbrowser does not navigate in Window Response when...
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- Issue
- Last updated 21 hours ago
- Argenis Castro replied 14 hours ago
Webbrowser does not navigate in a Window Response type window. When the response window containing the webbrowser object is opened from a custom ue_clicked event from another webbrowser object.
I am testing my application with powerbuilder versio...
Outlook - capture and pass user voting response to oracle database.
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 1 day ago
I would like to use Outlook to approve or reject invoices which will come as pdf attachment.
Email will have voting buttons 'Reject' and 'Approve'.
Need help with read response email, weather client select 'Approve' or 'Reject' button and insert ...
PS ICA up to speed only with Fiddler running??!
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hello,
I have come across what is most likely a network issue that I am unable to identify.
We have a PowerServer application deployed to a public Internet server.
It's working just fine in both IWA mode (PS 2020, still keeping it for commercial r...
Hello,
I've copied this script from Ren Ullrich for generating a GUID: https://community.appeon.com/qna/q-a/generating-a-guid
Running in PB IDE (2022, 2025, whatever), 32bit mode. Working ok.
Running in PB IDE, 64bit mode: "Error calling externa...
Added Visual Studio 2022 to a VS 2017 installation and both PowerBuilder and InfoMaker 2022 R2 (2819) stopped working
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 days ago
Our development machines have Visual Studio 2017 on them as well as PowerBuilder 2022 R2 and InfoMaker 2022 R2 (build 2819). We are finally getting around to updating Visual Studio to 2022. I installed it yesterday and today I discovered that neither...
Hello
We try to install our PowerBuilder Application in version 17 on a labtop with Windows 11 and we have this error:
Lapplication na pas russi dmarrer correctement (0xc000007b)
Please can you give us explanation.
Best regards
Fabienne PER...
SMTPClient error -11 Operation timeout
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- New
- Advice
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
Hello,We're currently using PB2019 and OLE to send emails from our app. However, we'd really like to offer our customers the option of using the new MS Outlook email client instead of the old one, as it is way faster and less resource-demanding on cl...
When I scroll the data window, the column other than the one under the cursor scrolls.
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- Advice
- Last updated 3 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
I'm using a translation to ask the question, so I apologize if the meaning is incorrect.
Hello, I'm using powerbuilder 2017 R3 for development, but I'm having trouble with the following phenomenon.
About window and data window settings
The windo...
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