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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  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
  1. PowerBuilder
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
  1. PowerBuilder
REST API and OAuth on older version of PowerBuilder
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Hi,  I have an old client who used the application developed using PowerBuilder 7 really long ago. The client current use this for back up and now rarely use this system, but they recently requested asking if it's possible to do do some enhancement...
  1.  API
  2.  Authentication
  3.  Cloud
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Jay Kim Jay Kim
  1. PowerBuilder
How to include traditional Toolbar in to the in the MDI sheet opened from Ribbonbar control
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
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We are in a process of modernizing our application using Ribbon Bar control and Themes. Need a clarification on using the existing toolbar with the Ribbon Bar control.Currently all the actions are being performed using the items inside the Toolbar, s...
Rohith KS Rohith KS
  1. PowerBuilder
Infomaker PDF generation
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
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Hi, We seem to have an issue with infomaker generated PDFs when we switched in IDE 2022. It seems that safari browser, and IOS phones do not see the font but instead get dots. It seems related to this issue in powerbuilder : https://community.appeo...
John Voukenas John Voukenas
  1. InfoMaker
Application Server Migration HP-UX to RHEL 8 ( Client we are using Appeon Powerbuilders)
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
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Hi, I need suggestion for below case. We are doing application server migration from HP-UX to RHEL. Our application client we used for PowerBuilder 2017 R3 and Server side logic we written in Oracle Tuxedo and Pro*c. So ,now data the communication ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Narayanamoorthy Thangavel Narayanamoorthy Thangavel
  1. PowerBuilder
What you do when TRY CATCH is not stopping PB crash?
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Berka Frenfert replied 9 months ago
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Please read latest crash report posted on Tuesday, 27 February 2024 below in reply section.NOTE: This one is older but almost same kind of TRY CATCHHi, I know referenced DW does not have instance variable i am trying to set so obviously PB will cras...
Berka Frenfert Berka Frenfert
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Generación DLL para consumo en aplicaciones .NET
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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En el Power Builder 2022 R3 como puedo generar una DLL para que sean consumidos en aplicaciones .NET ?  
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  3.  .NET DataStore
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Jean Pierre Chavez Vicente Jean Pierre Chavez Vicente
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Aplicacion PowerClient con acceso a varias DBMS en la misma pc
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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hI, Tenemos una aplicacion PowerClient que necesita conectarse a varias bases de datos, antes de PowerClient teniamos varios directorios con su respectivo file .ini. Ahora si hago una copia del directorio original a otro ubicacion y la ejecuto, sigu...
Milton Jiménez Milton Jiménez
  1. PowerBuilder
Suppress F12 on webbrowser (msedgewebview2)
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, I like to prevent the F12 key from opening devtools in my application. I looked into the acceleratorkeypressed event, which fires when pressing F12 (virtualkey 123). There is, however, no option to stop processing it (as far as I can see). Accor...
Aart Onkenhout Aart Onkenhout
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Datawindow Page Break Print
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hi I am 'recycling' Mike Monette's question I found online (from 1997, long live the internet!!) about placing a page break onto a datawindow. You may find his original post here - https://bit.ly/2UAZpbu I'll copy and paste it here as well just so...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
Dec() vs Double() performance
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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We have a value that is stored as varchar, but it contains numeric data with a decimal to 2 places. It is an ID field, and that's just the way it has evolved over the years. For datawindow sorting, the application wraps the sort column name with doub...
Jim Reese Jim Reese
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Ubuntu 22.0 powerserver Service Issue
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 9 months ago
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WHen we set powerserver module as service and trying start service then we get core dump error but if execute using dotnet then it is staring without issueBelow is the sample config and core dump error from logsample config: Service config file as b...
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  4.  Service
Narayana Bhat P Narayana Bhat P
  1. PowerServer
Smtpclient OnSendFinished Event 2
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 9 months ago
3 replies
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I have problems sending the email asynchronously, the emails send them perfect, but I cannot scratch values in the Osendfinished eventWhile I turn the content in a variables that, at the end of sending several emails, it is never filled with any valu...
damian jimenez damian jimenez
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PBNI Exception Not Handled
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
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I have a C++ exe that calls a function in a PowerBuilder non-visual userobject. I'm getting a valid system error and despite using the HasExceptionThrown and ClearException session methods in the C++ and having code in the systemerror event of the P...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
사진이미지 파일에서 Meta Data 방법 문의합니다.
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
0 replies
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파워빌더 2017 R3 사용중입니다. 사진이미지 파일에서 Meta Data를 추출하고자 합니다. 참고할만한 source 가 필요한데 제공해 주시면 감사하겠습니다.  
moonhee lee moonhee lee
  1. PowerBuilder
Feature Request: setSort() Natural-sort-option
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 9 months ago
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Hello Appeon Team, we've got a feature request regarding the sort-algorithm and the sort arguments. We need it to be possible to set a natural sort in the setSort()-Function, instead of the alphanumerical ascending/descending in string type columns. ...
Felix Kock Felix Kock
  1. PowerBuilder
Failed to load library: PBORC.DLL with PB 2022 R2 utilities
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Alexander Busch replied 9 months ago
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We are experiencing an issue with Orca220 that has arisen since the upgrade from PB 2022 R1 to PB 2022 R2. On our server, we uninstalled the old utilities and installed the new ones with version 22.1.0.2828. Afterwards, we rebooted the system but oth...
Alexander Busch Alexander Busch
  1. PowerBuilder
How to Create pbl from pgb and sr* files ?!
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  iliyan iliev replied 9 months ago
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I try to build with orca script , but only create pbl without souce code. i use script from  Using orca to create and import to pbl libraries from source How to create pbl from sr* and pbg files ?!
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  2.  PBL
  3.  PowerBuilder
iliyan iliev iliyan iliev
  1. PowerBuilder
PB can't use refresh for GIT
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Powerbuilder 2017 R2  Using Git, right-clicking to refresh the PBL gives an error that the object cannot be imported After clicking ok, the import is successful, but the objects are not imported into the PBL. Reinstalled PB, GIt, TortoiseGit，It's ...
  1.  Git
lei sun lei sun
  1. PowerBuilder
A new version of cloud app launcher is available
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Mora Wang @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Getting message for cloud app launcher every time when i am trying to run the launcher screenshot attached. "A new version of cloud app launcher is available, please contact the administrator to upgrade to the latest version. Before the upgrade, the...
Anoop Chaurasia Anoop Chaurasia
  1. PowerServer
PB - irresponsive pb menu
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Hi guys,   I am experiencing a problem in my pb app , PB 2019 R3 but the problem was already there in previous versions. i have a function that closes some pb windows , opens a new window and so on. the first time i run this function (after pb st...
John Vanleeuwe John Vanleeuwe
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