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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks ago
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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 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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10 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Change color of the Title Bar of the frame window
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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Hi All, What is the way to change the color of the title bar of the main window of the application(frame)? please find the attached example Regards, Marina
gili galili gili galili
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PBL Peeper & MSVCR71.dll
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Shawn Davis replied 3 years ago
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Hi All, A bit stumped here and this might be some Windows 11 weirdness. I've got a new machine (very fast, joy, joy) I've installed PBL Peeper on it but get the error about cannot proceed because NSVCR71.dll was not found. So I downloaded the Visua...
Shawn Davis Shawn Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
Drop down datawindow - How to detect when the dropdown is closed
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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Hi,   How can I detect when a row in the drop down datawindow is selected or the dropdown is closed?when the scrolls up and down using the keyboard the the ItemChanged event is triggered so that is not an option Basically I need a way to run come ...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Steen Jakobsen Steen Jakobsen
  1. PowerBuilder
Can you Filter a DataWindow with an array?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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Is it possible to set your filter string to be an array?  I want users to be able to select multiple "keywords" from a list.  Then filter a master list based on whether or not the "keyword" column in the datawindow contains one of the selected keywor...
Rick Domogalik Rick Domogalik
  1. PowerBuilder
How to integrate JDBC With PB2019R3?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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PB2019R3, b2703Window 10, 64 bit platform, VMWhat is the way to integrate JDBC into the Database Painter? We have installed Zulu Java, it's our replacement for Sun Java -- Oracle Java -- no longer free.We have instaledd EBD PostgreSQL as our new data...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
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Handling events on non-visual COM objects
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 3 years ago
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Am I right in thinking that if I have a non-visual COM object, that I can connect to with ConnectToNewObject on an OleObject, there is no way to see or process events that it might throw? I know about using a user object OleObject so I can catch the...
  1.  COM
  2.  Event Handling
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow column tooltip 'tip' text max size?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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Is there a maximum size for the tooltip string text of a datawindow colum?
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Denis Silva Denis Silva
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How do I enable Sorting on Master/Detail window
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tracy Lamb replied 3 years ago
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Hi all, Took me a few days to get the Column sort to work, but it's working great now.  I have a question: I have a few master/detail windows.  When I click on a column label in the master dw to sort by that column, it sorts fine, but the detail dw ...
  1.  PFC
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Two versions of CEF at the same time
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Aron Cox replied 3 years ago
1 reply
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Sorry, second one today. PowerBuidler 2019 R3 build 2728 Windows 10 We have switched all our old Internet Explorer activeX controls to the new PowerBuilder web browser control and everything works great, until our .NET developers changed our login...
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  2.  WebBrowser
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. PowerBuilder
Applying themes to ancestor userobjects inherited from standard visual objects
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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We have two userobjects uo_fms_picturebutton and uo_fms_picturebutton2 which are inherited from the standard picturebutton control.    4 of these are placed on our ancestor window object w_genapp_base, 2 of each type called cb_1,cb_2,cb_3_cb_4.  We w...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
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global variable declare
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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Hi: I am migrating pb6.0 to powerbuilder 2021 but it shows error as below,  gs_uid is global variable, so, Where can I declare powerbuilder 2021 global variables?   ---------- Compiler: Errors (下午 01:18:44)security.pbl(w_login).cb_ok.clicked.6: E...
  1.  Variable
馥穗 莊 馥穗 莊
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Printer Setup from File menu not responding
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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Hello all, I'm using PowerBuilder 2019 R3 on Windows 10 Pro v21H2.  Clicking on File on the main PB menu, then Printer Setup, then choosing one of the printers listed, then clicking the Setup button seems to fail.  Nothing displays.  Seems to hang f...
Ted Fruchtl Ted Fruchtl
  1. PowerBuilder
Windows servers 2019 performance issues
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Frankel David replied 3 years ago
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We have a rather large Powerbuilder application running in many customer servers worldwide. Most customers run the program on windows terminal servers in a computer farm and virtual desktops. We are getting complaints that when upgrading to Windows...
Frankel David Frankel David
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Is there a maximum size for output ParamValue arguments from a stored procedure in SnapObjects
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Daryl Foster replied 3 years ago
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Hi, we've been using SnapObjects for quite a while without too many issues, but today we found that one of our stored procedure calls truncates the output parameter to 4000 characters.  Is that configurable in SnapObjects, or is it a hard limit? We a...
  1.  Stored Procedure
  2.  SnapDevelop
Daryl Foster Daryl Foster
  1. SnapObjects
How to post data to WebBrowser control in PowerBuilder 2021?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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Hello, In VisualBasic application, Internet Explorer browser control implementation was done as below.  Is there any sample for WebBrowser control to post data similar to below implementation?  Thanks. Dim strPostData As String strPostData = "uid=...
Rajaram Palanisamy Rajaram Palanisamy
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pbvm.dll 與window 11不相容。
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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pbvm.dll 與window 11不相容。
  1.  64-bit
Chang chihyuan Chang chihyuan
  1. PowerBuilder
SQLCA.logpass can be catched with process hacker tool
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Pierre DETE replied 3 years ago
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Hello, A customer reports that he was able to retrieve the login password stored in SQLCA.logpass using the process hacker tool. He asks us to secure this. How can we do this? Thank you in advance. Pierre
  1.  PowerBuilder
Pierre DETE Pierre DETE
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Is it possible to update a DataWindow column from a string array
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 3 years ago
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I have a string array that I want to apply to a column so that array item one goes in row one, item two goes in row two, and so on. I could loop through them and do a SetItem but I was hoping for dot notation that would work in this code: DWObject ...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
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PB 19 app generating Error 14 when printing - pbvm80u.dll
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 3 years ago
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We recently migrated a 32 bit PB 8 app to 64 bit PB 19. Everything is looking good except for printing. The app generates "Error Number 14. Error opening DLL library pbvm80u.dll for external function...." I have done a search on the error and it loo...
  1.  DLL
  2.  Error
  3.  Print
  4.  PowerBuilder Runtime
Kelly Amott Kelly Amott
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow column names
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Hello, Recently, when I create a new data window, or modify the select of an existing data window, the name of the column in the datawindow will be a combination of the table and column name. I am using Powerbuilder 2017 R3 build 1915.For example if...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Brady Schmidt Brady Schmidt
  1. PowerBuilder

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