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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
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Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
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PB.INI and ACCESSIBILITY=0
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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PowerBuilder 2019 R3 build 2728, and other older versions. We've started getting more customers with random crashes in the past few months. I suspect many, if not all, are related to the known issue with PowerBuilder and Windows Accessibility, and t...
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Aron Cox Aron Cox
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Probable bug with CloseUserObject and webbrowser
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 3 years ago
2 replies
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PB 2021 - build 1506.   I am posting this issue to QA so others are aware of it but I am also submitting this as a bug. We have been trying to reproduce this issue consistently - it seems to happen frequently within our main application and only occ...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
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PowerBuilder GPF connecting to Visual SourceSafe
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Hi, I've got a new machine, Windows 10 Version 21H2. I installed PowerBuilder 2019 R2 Build 2353. When I try to connect my projects to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, PB crashes with no message. Steps: 1. Open Workspace 2. Open Library Painter 3. R...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
John Raghanti John Raghanti
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In GIT Project regeneration fails.
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Good morning Community. I have a problem. If I connect via 'connect to workspace' to a project stored on dev.azure.com project regeneration fails. see attachment: error.png and log file FileRegenerate.zip. I was able to create the same error with ...
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
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webbrowser control gives white screen (randomly)
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tomas Beran replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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I am using PB2021 build 1311 and have a process that reads a local HTML file using the PB webbrowser control.  This HTML file is an image gallery than can vary in size from 1 image to 7000+ images.  The images are on the local network.   Sometimes, ...
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Matt Kleweno Matt Kleweno
  1. PowerBuilder
Webbrowser navigationstart event
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tomas Beran replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi It looks like NavigationStart event is called when the webbrowser object is created (or drawn etc). Plus it seems to be called asynchronously because: If there's no Navigate() called in Open event of the window then only this 'ghost' NavigationS...
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Tomas Beran Tomas Beran
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Problem passing XML to Web API using HttpClient
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kenneth Hughson replied 3 years ago
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Does anyone have either any successful examples of using HTTPClient to consume a .Net Web API that requires XML to be passed to it? OR know why I’m receiving the error\issues below when trying to pass the XML? I’m using PowerBuilder 2021 Profe...
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  2.  32-bit
  3.  HTTPClient
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  5.  REST
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Kenneth Hughson Kenneth Hughson
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DB trace to 2 files
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tobias Roth replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Hello, all I have a very big application, which connects to multiple DBs via ODBC. I would like to use DBTrace in order to see which selects takes too much time or being repeated more than it needs to. My question is - how can I set up tracing to ...
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  2.  Logging
Arcady Abramov Arcady Abramov
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Acceleration of Editmask spin control
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Hi Everyone, Is there any way to control the acceleration of an editmask spin control??  If user keeps up/down arrow pressed of an editmask spin control it changes the display value at a certain rate. Is there any way to increase or decrease this a...
Subhabrata Das Subhabrata Das
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Host Client, api and database in different servers
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Have develop Powerserver2021 application, i wanted to ask if it's advisable to host Client, API and database in different servers.
mathews rutto mathews rutto
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rowfocuschanging newrow incorrect
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
5 replies
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Hi, I have a trouble with event rowfocuchanging.  I have a window with 4 tabpage. In the last tabpage, there are 3 datawindow. the 3 datawindow contains a list and for each row of the list, it is a dropdowndatawindow. When i open the window, the ...
Nathalie Meurant Nathalie Meurant
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PowerBuilder 2021 build 1506 (same runtime) MSSCCI TFS giving error
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
11 replies
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Hi, We are Migrating to PB2021. For source control, we have TFS and we use MSSCCI to connect to PB. Now when I check in for the first time, one example mentioned below: PBL had 50-60 object. Clicked Add to Source Control. Put in comments and the p...
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ZARIR KAPADIA ZARIR KAPADIA
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Search/Find in workspace?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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Just upgraded from PB 11.5 (circa 2008) to PB 2021. PB 11.5 never had the ability to search all source code of a workspace or target.  In the TWELVE years they had to improve the IDE, they never implemented search all?  Wow.  Just wow.My old solutio...
Mark Calder Mark Calder
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Paste Cell From Excel into Datawindow Single Line Edit fails
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Peter Thiem replied 3 years ago
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Hi Community, In this application, the users have a problem cutting and pasting from Excel. The paste operation is failing to paste data into "Datawindow Single Line Edit" fields. Afaict, it is because the clipboard of the Excel cell contains a CR...
Peter Thiem Peter Thiem
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PowerBuilder Application Performance issue
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
7 replies
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Hi All,   We are upgraded our PB version from PB 6.5 to PB2017 version. Application are working fine in all the functionality. But we are facing performance issue while we searching any records in any of the screen it takes more than 4 min. But app...
Narayanamoorthy Thangavel Narayanamoorthy Thangavel
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2D Barcode Issues in Powerbuilder 2017 R3
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  André Monz replied 3 years ago
4 replies
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 Hi,           Our application is in PB2017 R3, we are using 2D Barcode scanner (Model: DS2208) to scan the barcode and display the scanner output on Datawindow – Edit (Style Type) column, To get the barcode scanner data, Placing the cursor on Dataw...
sachidhanantham ramalingam sachidhanantham ramalingam
  1. PowerBuilder
请问下怎样可以把手机上的dw中的数据保存为excel或者pdf 文件保存在手机上面，方便把数据转发给他人
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 3 years ago
6 replies
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你好： 请问下怎样可以把手机上的dw中的数据保存为excel或者pdf 文件保存在手机上面，方便把数据转发给他人 谢谢
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Theme's problem
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 3 years ago
8 replies
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When I apply a Theme, windows can be resized by clicking on the border, even when the window's resizable property is disabled. Any ideas ? in the first image when I click on the border (painted yellow) it can make the window smaller as seen in image...
Marcelo Gil Marcelo Gil
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Migration from PB2017 to PB2021 - coolmenu.dll not compatible.
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 3 years ago
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Greetings We are currently migrating from PB2017 to PB2021 and we have a software in production with multiple clients that stood with us for several years, it is critical to keep the library coolmenu.dll until we get enough time to refactorize it to...
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Esteban STD Esteban STD
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"ShareData" on DATA tabpage of a datawindow. What's it good for?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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Hi, Does anyone know what this "ShareData" is for on the Data tab of a dw? Is it just an indicator to programmers that this dw shares data with another? Not much happens when you click on it, except for toggling the check on the contextual menu ......
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
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