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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
6 replies
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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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
5375 views
12 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Increase column sizes on hundreds of datawindows
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Matt Balent replied 2 years ago
4 replies
2273 views
0 votes
Greetings community,   In the past few months, our company migrated multiple applications from Powerbuilder 9 to Powerbuilder 2019. We did encounter something interesting: for varchar(max) and text column types, on our MSSQL database, all datawind...
  1.  Bug
  2.  DataWindow
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  SQL
  5.  Text
  6.  VARCHAR
  7.  MSOLEDBSQL
P Laceholder P Laceholder
  1. PowerBuilder
Can't launch StaticHyperLink from Clicked event.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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I would like to launch the default browser with a specified URL. I tried using a StaticHyperLink and that works fine when I click on it, but if I try to launch it by triggering the Clicked() event, it doesn't work. The event gets executed but the br...
  1.  WebBrowser
Gene Kanten Gene Kanten
  1. PowerBuilder
Infomaker report file save
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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What is the best method to save a report to Excel ? I keep getting this error.    
Tony Pafumi Tony Pafumi
  1. InfoMaker
Appeon Xcelerator plug-in - firewall av block
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi, I have a customer who is trying to run the appeon xcelerator plug-in - active x - on powerserver 2019 If they turn their firewall / av off it works fine, anyone know what protocol / ports or what they might need to allow through to stop it bein...
  1.  Appeon Xcelerator Plug-in
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Demo apps do not launch!
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello Team, NONE of the demo apps are launching after downloading and installing the Launcher from Appeon - Can you please resolve these?
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerServer
Shekar Reddy Shekar Reddy
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Scheduled release date for PB 2022
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
2014 views
1 vote
Hello, Is any date scheduled for the release of PB 2022?   Email client is the one I need it, if not need to go with some third party tools. Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash  
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
Getting a value from a webpage / internet using OLE and EDGE 12.5
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Using Appeon I was able to get a value from a webpage using:  httpclient, sendrequest (get)  and getresponsebody But I have to do the same thing in PB 12.5    and I am trying to use OLE but it only is connecting to Internet Explorer. I have to conn...
Dawn Browneyes Dawn Browneyes
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer 20201 PB Edition
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Alzate replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello there. Is there a PB Edition for PowerServer 2021? If so, how do I get and install it? If not, what is the alternative for locally deploying and testing PowerServer projects in the PowerBuilder 2021 IDE? Thanks in advance for your answers.
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerServer
c hange DW Report to FORM
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
2 replies
1064 views
0 votes
Dear all, we have an Infomaker datawindow REPORT. As I cannot set the tab order in a report, I need to convert this report into a data windowFORM.As we have several of these datawindow reports, making new FORMS is very cumbersome. Do you know, how ...
Detlef Goldmann Detlef Goldmann
  1. InfoMaker
New WebBrowser control versus using WebView2 directly
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Richard Shakour replied 2 years ago
3 replies
4099 views
3 votes
Given what today's Appeon newsletter says, it appears that we will no longer be able to use the MS WebBrowser ActiveX control after sometime in June. (If anyone knows that that is not correct, please let us know!) We use it for significant mail-merge...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  WebBrowser
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
base64
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
8 replies
1721 views
0 votes
hello i am using powerbuilder 10.5 . can anyone help with encode hex to base64 . 
aymen moawad aymen moawad
  1. PowerBuilder
Anyone use the Filestream API in PB (OpenSqlFilestream)
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi Guys I'm looking at trying to use the Win32 Api to access and open SQL Server Filestream documents. I know that I can read then using SelectBlob and write them to disk localy then open them but was lookign to use the "official" MS method. It woul...
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerBuilder
IE HTML Editor and "Replace Your Web Browser OLE Control"
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi Guys We are using the microsoft IE OLE object in editor mode for one of our applications. This was based upon a HTML editor that Roland created. I'm concirned that this will die when Microsoft will no longer support Internet Explorer on Windows 1...
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerBuilder
PB2021 causing error in Embedded Stored Procedure Calls. RunTime 19.2.0.2728
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi all, I'm developing on a old application that has migrated over the years and is now at RunTime 19.2.0.2728.   we develop with IDE PB2019R3. I have moved to plan with PB2021 with setting for Runtime set to the same as above, 19.2.0.2728. If I...
Maurice Losier Maurice Losier
  1. PowerBuilder
theme.json tab settings overriding TabTextColor (2019R2)
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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I quite like the results of themed tab objects but I have a few tabpages that are highlighted by setting a custom TabTextColor in the painter. This gets overwritten by the theme even when I remove the "text-font":{"color":"#..."} entry from the theme...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  Theme
Benjamin Gaesslein Benjamin Gaesslein
  1. PowerBuilder
Saving PDF using NativePDF! creates wrong size pages
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
I've recently migrated one of my company's applications from PowerBuilder 2017 R3 to PowerBuilder 2021 (Professional Edition) and we want to eliminate the need for having Ghostscript installed to export PDF files. On the PDF Export tab of the Applica...
  1.  PDF
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Daniel Kervabon Daniel Kervabon
  1. PowerBuilder
No resize on response windows when using themes
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
1187 views
0 votes
I everybody, I tried using themes in my application and facing a problem. I use response windows for that I make resizing possible with some calls of external funktions to windows DLLs (user32.dll). This is working well without themes. But when usi...
Markus Kreuzer Markus Kreuzer
  1. PowerBuilder
Bad Runtime Function Reference calling pbdom_document in deployed application
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
We have moved to PowerBuilder 2021 in our dev environment and deploy our application by using InstallShield. The following code now generates an error in the deployed application. pbdom_document    pbdom_doc pbdom_builder  pbdom_bldr pbdom_bldr ...
Dennis Eisler Dennis Eisler
  1. PowerBuilder
salesdemo_restful sqlserver connectionstring sample
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
0 replies
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0 votes
Having trouble with appsettings.json file, can someone send a sample
andy rubey andy rubey
  1. SnapDevelop
Issue calling a .Net Dll from PowerBuilder 2019
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hello, So we migrated to PowerBuilder 2019 and the previous version called a .Net Dll 4.52 framework. I followed all the instructions to import to a NVO that calls the dll and set the assembly to a direct path that everyone has as well as the one th...
Les Kaplan Les Kaplan
  1. PowerBuilder

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