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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 11 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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Issue with PowerBuilder Application Terminating on Opening XML in UI
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Hi Team, I am encountering an issue while running the PowerBuilder application. Specifically, when I attempt to open an XML file in the UI, the application terminates unexpectedly. Upon debugging, I noticed the issue seems to be related to the OLE_...
kusuma latha kusuma latha
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PowerBuilder RUN command...
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Hello all... Seasons greeting...   My question today has to do with the RUN command in PowerBuilder. I am re-writing some logic to print labels.  We are moving away from an ActiveX and Intermec label printer, to using ZPL with Zebra Printers. In ...
Erick Bergsma Erick Bergsma
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List of pbc220.exe return codes
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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What are the return codes ​​for pbc220.exe? I couldn't find a list of this anywhere. If it is 0, it is successful. However, in some warning cases, different codes are returned. Is there a full list? Or does =0 mean that the exe file has been cr...
Murat Yurdakul Murat Yurdakul
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WebBrowser control in DesignMode and pasting with PhraseExpress
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 weeks ago
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I need to build a mini email HTML editor and am considering the new PB2022 WebBrowser control based on WebView2. It's easy to put it into DesignMode (so users can edit) with:wb_1.EvaluateJavascriptSync("document.designMode = 'on'", REF lsResult, REF...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  WebBrowser
Dan Cooperstock Dan Cooperstock
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PowerServer temp file location
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  John Vaughn replied 3 weeks ago
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Is there a way to change the location of the temp files that are created when creating PowerServer files? I am getting this error. Thanks, John Vaughn
John Vaughn John Vaughn
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Logout from application when idle
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 weeks ago
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Hello, Using PB 2022 R3 When the application is idle for few minutes, (no activity), I want my application to logout automatically from the application, without saving (if required). Is that possible? Issue here is when the super user leaves the a...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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Import Json Into Nested Report (Not Composite)
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  2.  Ramón San Félix Ramón replied 3 weeks ago
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I have a JSON file from an API and I want to insert it into a nested report. To retrieve the reference to the nested file, I use the trick of changing the processing to 5 first, then retrieving the reference and setting it up the same way as before....
Ramón San Félix Ramón Ramón San Félix Ramón
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Rich text editor margin (PB 9)
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Jonatan Lozano replied 3 weeks ago
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Good afternoon, I have a rich text editor called rte_document and I want to paste some external text. When I paste it, it doesn't respect the leading margins... Is there a solution to solve this problem in Powerbuilder 9.0? Now, I do rte.Paste() ...
Jonatan Lozano Jonatan Lozano
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migration of 64bit in powerbuilder
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  1. Last updated 4 weeks ago
  2.  kusuma latha replied 3 weeks ago
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Hi Team, During the migration of the PowerBuilder application from 32-bit to 64-bit, I updated most of the Long variables to LongPtr. While the execution works for some parts of the application, such as adding elements to the XML file, the applicati...
kusuma latha kusuma latha
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RibbonBarMenuItems
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Hi We have a button under which we have a menu under which we have another menu as shown in the following structure largebutton menu item tag = "mnu1"/ item tag = "mnu2" item tag = "submnu1/ item tag = "submnu1/ it...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
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Deepti Nimmagadda Deepti Nimmagadda
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Winsock %S1 error STD Framework
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Good day, everyone. I am using the STD Framework by Chris Pollach. Every time I log into the application, and as soon as the form controller opens, this error appears. At first, I suspected it was a network-related issue, so I disabled my Wind...
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John Michael Tejano John Michael Tejano
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Performance issue when PB2022 application is started on a VM
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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I'm using PB2022 R3. The application I built works smoothly with one strange exception: When I click on a datawindow in a sheet within a mdi frame, the application hangs for 20 seconds up to two minutes showing "not responding". After this period th...
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Guido Hinrichs Guido Hinrichs
  1. PowerBuilder
WebBrowser prevent header and footer with PrintAsPDF?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Dan Cooperstock replied 3 weeks ago
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We want to use the WebBrowser control in PB2021 to load HTML files and save them as PDF. We have working code, but it is adding a header and footer to the page. We need to not have those! Is there a way to force that? Maybe some JavaScript? I have ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  WebBrowser
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
Send mails with Oauth2 authentication
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 weeks ago
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Hi, Starting in September, Office 365 will no longer use simple authentication for sending emails. It will use OAuth2 instead. Is there a way to do this in PB2019? Thanks
Mariano Lago Mariano Lago
  1. PowerBuilder
Tooltip not getting displayed after switching to PB2022 64 bit for a datawindow column
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 weeks ago
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Hello Team, We are currently using PowerBuilder 2022 (Version 1878). In our application, we have a DataWindow column with the tag field set in the following format:TooltipTooltip description/Tooltip. During runtime, the tooltip description was getti...
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Dhanya K Dhanya K
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Handling UTF-8 special characters from Apple devices
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
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Hello everyone, I have a question regarding UTF-8 characters. For context, I'm working on a PowerBuilder application which uses Chilkat to get mails from an adress to import attached files into our database. However, we problems when we get mails ...
Lukas Kluge Lukas Kluge
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Connecting to Exchange Server using EWS
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Rick Hiebert replied 3 weeks ago
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This is the code Copilot generated for me: // Declare variablesOLEObject oleMailServiceinteger li_rc // Create OLEObject for EWSoleMailService = CREATE OLEObjectli_rc = oleMailService.ConnectToNewObject("MSExchangeWebServices.ExchangeService") // ...
Rick Hiebert Rick Hiebert
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Native PDF Subreports
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
3 replies
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Hello Powerbuilders, I build a report with several subreports which runs well all the time. This report has several pages for each customer. Since last Version R3 3397 I have some scary things happen generating and printing a report: When I retrie...
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Stephan Schröpel Stephan Schröpel
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Error on dynamic data window with big amount of data
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
4 replies
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Hi all, On legacy application, I need to create datawindow dynamicly, based on various data, when the data reach specific number of records, the creation of the dynamic data window fail. In other words, While tring create dynamic data window this w...
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Amit De Picciotto Amit De Picciotto
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with Debugging Across Multiple Functions, UserObjects, Parent Objects.
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
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Dear Experts When debugging, I set a breakpoint, and when the code is executed, the cursor correctly stops at the breakpoint. Debugging works fine as long as the entire process occurs within a single page. However, if the code references other funct...
Deva Shanmuga Deva Shanmuga
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