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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 8 months 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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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 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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Request for partial theme implementation
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
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We have a large mature application with hundreds of windows.   With this next release we are for the first time going to be applying themes but only partially.   We are using them for windows, menus, windows, tab objects, radiobuttons,checkboxes, scr...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
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Non-Editable field - Force to Review
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 2 years ago
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Hi Team, We have a requirement, where user need to visit/click/Tab out each field in the datawindow. but fields are non-editable. Please suggest us any possible solution. Regards Gyaneshwar
Gyaneshwar Kumar Gyaneshwar Kumar
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How to disable PB Themes for some objects
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Thierry Del Fiore replied 2 years ago
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Hi, we're trying PB Themes in PB2019R3. Is there a way to disable the themes for some windows ? I tried to complete the theme.json file, but it doesn't seem to work, the theme is applied :    "w_main2": { "drawing":false }, "w_main2$statictext":...
Thierry Del Fiore Thierry Del Fiore
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请问下安卓在10之后就不能允许访问其它应用安装的文件了
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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请问下安卓在10之后就不能允许访问其它应用安装的文件了，好像只能访问相册，请问怎样可以做到能读写其它应用的文件比如office文件，我看安卓系统里面的设置没有权限开放的
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Using addToLibraryList function in powerserver cloud app
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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Hi, we are using the addToLibraryList() function to dynamically extend the library list of our application, to dynamically use other/new powerbuilder objects like datawindows etc. This seems to be not fully supported anymore when deploying a powerse...
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S&F Datentechnik S&F Datentechnik
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Help! Need runtime DLL for 12.5
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  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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    Hello all!   I am working on a PowerBuilder application for my company and we're trying to upgrade it to the latest version. We currently use PB 9.5 and I was going to begin my conversion from there, however,  I just learned from another deve...
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John Mitrik John Mitrik
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Performance when drawing PNG files in a datawindow
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Brad Mettee replied 2 years ago
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We have a script that dynamically generates a datawindow that has an array of icons showing the state of various data (see image below).  There are up to about 20 different images that could be displayed per icon depending on the data. We are constan...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
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Transparent window radiobutton/checkbox objects when using a theme?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mark Jones replied 2 years ago
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We are starting to use themes however we run into one issue that is very annoying.  I am hoping there is an easy solution!  We have specified in our theme, radiobuttons and checkboxes and have not specified a background color.   When we display a wi...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
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PrintSetup() and choosing MS PDF printer already PRINTS the datastore (not in a valid format)
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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The title of this post is wrong. It's not PrintSetup() but Print(true, true) already writing a PDF file (with 0 bytes and not valid): Hi, As you might have noticed, on https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/need-for-documentation-on-all-exi...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
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SaveAs to Excel 12 from PowerBuilder version 2021
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Clifford Gregory replied 2 years ago
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When saving a datawindow to Excel 12 from PowerBuilder 2021 program crashes. When saving a datawindow to Excel 5 from PowerBuilder 2021 data is saved. Is there a special DLL that the program "exe" needs to save to Excel 12.
Clifford Gregory Clifford Gregory
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ORA-01017 error with proxy user
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  David Xiong @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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Hello, PS 2021 and Oracle 12c. Web APIs - DB configuration results in ORA-01017, as simple as "invalid username/password; connection denied". Same parameters work from PB DB profile. Technically, I have been provided with an Oracle proxy user (htt...
Marco Meoni Marco Meoni
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modification of blob type
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  2.  william yau replied 2 years ago
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Hi Guru    I would like to modify address in sales template which stored blob type in sql server.  would you advise me how to do that   for example ; How to convert blob type to bmp and convert to bmp to blob type      william
william yau william yau
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Page count across nested reports in composite rpt
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Raymond Longoria replied 2 years ago
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I am working with an application in Powerbuilder 2021. I created a composite report with 3 nested reports. Each report has the page count in their header. How can i get the page count in the trailing 2 reports be a continuation of the page count from...
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Raymond Longoria Raymond Longoria
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SalesDemo with Postgresql
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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Today if been trying to get the Sales Demo application to work with Postgresql 13.6. The on the Github suggested database didn't restore (reported as a bug and will be fixed). After being pointed to another working version of the database by Mark L...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
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Can i have my eCharts, google charts or chartsJS inside a datawindow?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach replied 2 years ago
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I notice that i can't put a WebBrowser object inside a datawindow to show my Graphs using JS Libreries as eCharts,.... Do you know other way to add this technologies to my datawindow ?
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Edinson Nongrados Edinson Nongrados
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PB 2019 and 2021 and Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach replied 2 years ago
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Dear all,   do some of you have experiences running PB 2019/2021 against Windows 11? Any big issues/findings? I know that 2021 is still not officially supported for Win 11, but I need to dind good reasons to go for it. Many thanks in advance Th...
Thorsten Kummer Thorsten Kummer
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How can i resize my RibbonCategoryItem ?
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Edinson Nongrados replied 2 years ago
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Good afternoon, I have a RibbonBar for my App, but I want that my RibbonCategoryItems don't look like this:     The RibbonCategoryItems have enough space in the header to be showed but happens what you see in the picture and the full text in som...
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Edinson Nongrados Edinson Nongrados
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Opening a PDF file in a PowerBuilder window
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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Hello,Is it possible to open a PDF document in full screen mode in a powerbuilder version 2019 R3 build 2703 window?Thank you for your help
jean-louis cantin jean-louis cantin
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API methods
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 2 years ago
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Hai All, I have a Lab application which I created in powerbuilder - 2021. I want to send the Lab results with various method. 1. For outside clinic, they need the patient result with Lab Id number from my Database. Database working Lan network. 2....
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
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Disable addins for word document
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
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Need suggestion on disabling add-ins in word document while using OLE.  Tried something like this just before opening the word document, iole.AddIns.Unload(False), but that did not disable it.  Thanks in advance.
Nithya Chandrasekar Nithya Chandrasekar
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