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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 1 year ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Does ExportJSON / ImportJSON support nested reports?
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
PB 2022 Build 1892
Does ExportJSON / ImportJSON support nested reports?
App window becomes maximized after the screen turns on again
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- William Hong replied 4 weeks ago
I have set the screen to turn off in 1 minute after there is no operation on my Windows 10. But after the screen turns on again, my PB window will be maximized automatically, anyone knows why?
PBNI & LUA -- Use PBNI to encapsulate the functions provided by Lua
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- YuSeok Kim replied 4 weeks ago
Can Appeon provide some Lua functional extension libraries encapsulated with PBNI, so that developers can use some functions that PB itself does not have, such as HashTable, and it can also provide another solution for multithreading.global type n_lu...
Hello,
Using PB 2019R3 Build 2803, Runtime: 2703. 32 bit application
Getting the following error, when running the application
Load Library failed: dll name pbvm.dll, runtime path: C:\Appeon\PowerBuilder Runtime Packager\Runtime 19.2.0.2703
Thi...
Inconsistent print behavior
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
My printer was preloaded A4 paper as the default paper and itreports wrong paper size with following code.
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.Paper.Size=256")
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.CustomPage.Length=297")
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Print.CustomPag...
Customize my regional settings in my app
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- John Fauss replied 4 weeks ago
Good morning everyone. Is there any way to customize or define my regional settings for my app?
I have an app that apparently changes the regional settings, so in PowerBuilder I get this example:
June 5, 2025
sometimes it's reversed. 05/06/2...
Run time DLLs to use the PDFDocument object
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- Advice
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Raja Chinnappan replied 4 weeks ago
We are going to use PDFDocument object in our application.
Do we need any run time DLLs to be deployed along with the application to use the PDFDocument?
PowerBuilder creating multiple connections to DB in certain scenario
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
Hi Gurus
We are using PowerBuilder 2023R3, Sybase ASE 6.0 and SQL Server 19.
We have noticed that in certain condition, PB Client is creating a new connect to DB when doing a select to address table to fetch existing data.
Create New Account
...
Hi,
We use a WebBrowser component in the PB 2022R3 MR 3397 application (64bit).
According to the documentation, we only distribute these two files when using it as an Evergreen Runtime:
pbwebbrowser.dll
webbrowserapi.tlb.
However, we are getting...
Im currently using a legacy PowerBuilder application that was originally built as a 32-bit application. We've migrated it to 64-bit, and about 80% of the functionality is working correctly. However, we're encountering issues with some UI elements tha...
Do not change a datawindow column background when using themes.
- How-to
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
Hi,
I'm currently using a custom theme where I have set some particular properties for datawindows. The idea is to be able to use some custom images for radio buttons and checkboxes inside a datawindow, and it works fine.
The problem is that in ord...
DBerror Event SQLERRTEXT getting truncated
- Issue
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 weeks ago
Hi Team,
I am raise error thru SQL server trigger , I am getting the full response when i am fire thru SSMS.At the same time if i am executing in PowerBuilder DB error event automatically truncating the error text is there any limitation.
PowerBuilder won't start with .NET 6.0 removed
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 4 weeks ago
- Jeff Gibson replied 2 weeks ago
We have a situation that we're running into that I believe might be a dependency issue but wanted to check with the community on this first.
I'm working a contract with a group that has multiple developers running PowerBuilder 2022 R3, Build 3356. T...
InfoMaker Page Break before last line
- How-to
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Arnd Schmidt replied 3 weeks ago
Is there a way around the page break always printing the last line of data on a second page even if there is room on the page? I am working with a school and they want a large amount of data to print on the last page by itself. Ive tried doing it in ...
Question regarding obsolete PB features
- Misc
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
Hi all, again!
A question out of pure curiosity:
Why, if an obsolete feature once existed, does Appeon decide to remove it? It would be great to keep it, even if its no longer updated, improved, or supported by Appeon. Why throw away so much work t...
Exposed Oracle connection details in dump from PowerBuilder 2019
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
Hello,
I'm currently developing and deploying applications using PowerBuilder 2019, connecting to an Oracle 19c database.
During a recent security review, I discovered an issue where database connection information is exposed as plain text in a mem...
How can I set the First/Default Panel in RibbonBar auto converted from PB Menu in PB2025
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
I am using PowerBuilder 2025 and auto-convert menus to RibbonBar.
How can I set the default panel when the application loads and RibbonBar is displayed?
Thanks in advance.
Lloyd
Error on compile with PBAutoBuild
- Issue
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 3 weeks ago
Dear all,
I'm facing an error on compile with the PBAutoBuild, version 22.2.0.3391
The application is successfully compile and deploy with the IDE and fail on DEV azure hosted agent
It looks some kind of bug, as previous objects compiled success...
Hi, Appeon Team.
I want to update Windows Server 2016 to KB5040434. Are there any issues?The server is running on PowerServer 2020.I can't find any related issues in the Appeon community.
SQL Server(SNC) and Multiple Plans
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Panos Platanas replied 2 weeks ago
Hi!
We have a big number of queries that have Multiple Plans inside Sql Server.
We are using PowerBuilder 2017 (while we migrate slowly to PB 2025) and SNC driver.
I got the TOP 100 out of them and they are all SELECT clauses from datawindows of o...
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