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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
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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
  1. PowerBuilder
Can the flat appearance in the PB development environment be changed?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Ricardo Jasso replied 4 years ago
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We are using PB2017 R3 Build 1858 running on Windows 10 to develop in-house client-server desktop applications.  Our applications all use 3D borders on the various buttons and controls which are rendered perfectly in the applications once compiled, b...
Andrew Barnes Andrew Barnes
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Suppress ODBC Login Screen for Connect to ASE
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
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Hi  I am currently using PowerBuilder 2017 R3 and wanted to connect to our Sybase ASE 16 databases using ODBC.  My applications provide a login page so I wanted to suppress the ODBC login page and use the application's one.  I hope I can use DbParm ...
Charlie Cummins Charlie Cummins
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NativePDF print after regular print uses same page range
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Brad Mettee replied 4 years ago
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A user has just reported that if they display a report, then print only a range of pages from it to their real printer, selected using the Print dialog, displayed because the print was done as dw.Print(TRUE, TRUE), then do a save to PDF (which uses N...
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
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PBVM190.DLL is missing from your Computer
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
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Hi  i am working on the deployment my project on windows 2016 VM i am getting "PBVM190.DLL is missing from your Computer" error when i am using Dll build from Appeon 2019, even the depolyment kit on the server is 2019 on (C:\Software\Appeon\Shared)...
Sourabh Sharma Sourabh Sharma
  1. PowerBuilder
[pbc autocompiler] the .pbr resource file icons not showing
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 4 years ago
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I have several pbl in my project that are associated to separated resource files (.pbr) I've noticed that the resource icons listed in the pbr failing to be included when i use the autocompiler. Is there a specific command line option that i need to...
Simone Olianti Simone Olianti
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Outlook OLE SentOnBehalfOfName Property
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
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Hi I need to send emails from PB (2017 R3, build 1915) by Outlook OLE I am able to send any email but I would like to, and sort of have to, change the From to a DoNotReply@emailaddress.com instead of my own.   I have researched and come across ma...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2019 R2 / New WebBrowser / HTML editor ?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Daniel Vivier replied 4 years ago
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Hi With PowerBuilder 2019 R2, can we transform the new web browser control into an HTML editor (like Internet Explorer?) Regards Thierry
  1.  Editor
  2.  HTML/5
Thierry Garrigues Thierry Garrigues
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Get value for custom request header
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Thomas Rolseth replied 4 years ago
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I have setup JWT Authentication in our SnapDevelop Web API using this as a guide: https://docs.appeon.com/appeon_online_help/snapdevelop2019/Secure_a_Web_API_with_JWT_Token/index.html It seems to be working well so far and I am getting a token back...
  1.  Authentication
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  SnapDevelop
  4.  Web API
Thomas Rolseth Thomas Rolseth
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Updating greek letters into the database
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Vinay Batra replied 4 years ago
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Hi all, I need to save greek letters input by the user into the SQL Server database.  Table columns are of type nvarchar Datawindow Update does not work as it saves ??? instead of the letters I tried to create the update SQL statement with update...
Vinay Batra Vinay Batra
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Create new function failed
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Rudolf Fürst replied 4 years ago
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Hi there, Powerbuilder 2019 Build 2082 Suddenly I can't create a new function or duplicate a function. I tested in different windows and different projects. What do we have to do?
Rudolf Fürst Rudolf Fürst
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datawindow change type
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Philippe PILAT replied 4 years ago
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Hi, Bit of a long shot - is there a way to change a datawindow from grid - to free form or tabular , maybe by editing the source ? Because i have had a few instances recently where i have a grid datawindow and wanted to use the same data but presen...
  1.  DataWindow
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
PBNI Tutorial, Examples, Wizard for newer versions of Visual Studio
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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Does anyone have any advice, tips, C++ source for creating simple PBNI examples they are willing to share with the community? The "pbadd" non-visual object example in the PowerBuilder Native Interface Programmers Guide and Reference publication comp...
John Fauss John Fauss
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Displaying Spanish characters in a datawindow
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
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Good evening, We have application using the default character set going against an Oracle 12c back-end. We have to occasionally enter customers with Spanish names. We are in the process of updating the affected table column definitions from VARCHAR2...
Steven Turner Steven Turner
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Menu issue crashes .EXE
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  David Flory replied 4 years ago
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I have a very small application that builds and runs in the IDE with no issues.  The .exe crashes with "unresolvable external (window name) ..." when I call the window from clicked event of menu.  One or two menu items work but most fail with this me...
  1.  .EXE
  2.  Menu
David Flory David Flory
  1. PowerBuilder
.EXE crashes with no message.
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  David Flory replied 4 years ago
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Have a small app that builds and runs in the IDE without issues or errors.  The .exe doesn't even open anything and there are no messages of any kind.  Using PB 2019 Trial and starting to get concerned.  Just sent out a question about menu errors tha...
  1.  .EXE
David Flory David Flory
  1. PowerBuilder
Turn off themes
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Once I've applied a theme is there any way to turn off themes? I tried applyTheme("") but that didn't work
Richard Brooks Richard Brooks
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Appeon powerBuilder 2017 R3 has stopped working
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  harison william replied 4 years ago
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PowerBuilder Version 2017 R3 Build 1880   I’m getting the below error while opening my workspace Appeon powerBuilder 2017 R3 has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you...
Aaron Anbu Johan Abraham Aaron Anbu Johan Abraham
  1. PowerBuilder
Cannot access an array of a specific Object from .NET C# via COM
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
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Hi all, I am facing a strange issue while fetching an array of a specific object type from .NET C# to PB 11.2 (classic) via COM. My C# code is as follows: namespace RestHandler { [ComVisible(true)] [Guid("3CF8AB49-5E7D-4719-B277-5047C6A...
achuta twameva achuta twameva
  1. PowerBuilder
SnapDevelop - C# static function in DWCompute / Evaluate(expression)
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi - I was converting some DataWindows to a C# modal that has some Computed Fields that use a custom global function written in PowerBuilder.  How can I add a C# static function written to do the same when evaluating expressions (DWCompute) on these ...
Tony Fahlberg Tony Fahlberg
  1. SnapDevelop
PowerServer 2020 with PB2019R2 - is this beta? production?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 4 years ago
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PB 2019R2 beta includes PS 2020.  Is this considered a production copy of PS 2020, or is this considered beta version of PS2020?
mike S mike S
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