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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- 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
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- Last updated 3 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. :)
Hi All,
After building and deploying for months I started getting this odd error that doesn't let me deploy anymore and I have no idea why. Below is the PowerBuilder "default" output log.
Executing the "dotnet publish" command...1Project "C:\Users\...
How to shrink an array?
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- Last updated 5 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 21 seconds ago
A dynamic byte array needs to be shrunk before being converted to a blob. Copying byte by byte is not efficient since the array size is very large.
read data from a json array
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 40 seconds ago
Good morning, gentlemen. I hope someone can help me with this issue. I have this JSON file, and I need to read the email data. As such, this field can contain one or more emails.To read the object's data, I use the importJSON function to a datawind...
PB2025 Autoscript ignores my global functions
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- Last updated 5 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 minutes ago
I have a lot of global functions named gf_*. If I start typing gf_ at the beginning of a line, nothing pops up. Is that what's expected? If so, why? Global variables pop up.
This is in a PB2025 solution, that has been deployed.
Webbrowser does not navigate in Window Response when...
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- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 minutes ago
Webbrowser does not navigate in a Window Response type window. When the response window containing the webbrowser object is opened from a custom ue_clicked event from another webbrowser object.
I am testing my application with powerbuilder versio...
Insert a blob variable into a table
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- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 8 minutes ago
INSERT INTO certificate_en(en) VALUES(:b_blob);
The code does not work, there were no rows in the table before.
The b_blob variable size is 16, and the blob column en in the table only has 2 bytes after inserting.
Does anyone know the reason or ha...
Export to Excel of data window using Native Excel coming out with merged cells which is creating a big problem for end user it is getting missed with computation field also ,so please any one help to export excel in a proper format without cell mergi...
How can I reset my password when workflow keeps taking me to change password screen?
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 minutes ago
How can I reset my password? Powerbuilder is asking for my login and password, but when I click on reset password, it opens a change password screen. I'm getting problems with PB2022, but I am also running with PB2017 and PB2025 where I am logged in ...
PBM_DWCLOSEDROPDOWN event not firing
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- Issue
- Last updated 22 hours ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 12 minutes ago
The PBM_DWCLOSEDROPDOWN event does not fire when the drop down list box closes. The PBM_DWNDROPDOWN is working fine as it fires when the drop down is opened. Please advise.
Thank you
Are there alternatives to SHA1 and PKCS1 for CrypterObject.AssymetricSign with an RSA keypair?
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- Last updated 37 minutes ago
After a bunch of experimentation I see thatCrypterObject.AsymmetricSign Uses a SHA1 hash algorithm and PKCS1 padding.SHA1 is considered a "compromised algorithm" (see hashicorp vault's documentation), and PSS is the considered the preferred padding o...
no puedo imprimir cadena ZPL Zebra desde la APP cliente ligero
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- Last updated 54 minutes ago
Buen da , estoy trabajando en PB 2022 R2 , hicimos un desarrollo para leer codigo ZPL (de zebra) localmente desde los fuentes con una impresora conectado al USB funciona bien.
Compilo desde el server , tengo cliente ligero, al ejecutar el cliente li...
PB 2025 - Compile of Solution fails with no error message
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- Last updated 20 hours ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
Hi All,
Trying to convert our application from workspace to solution. I copied our application to a new folder and opened it into PB 2025. It imported with no errors. I then copied that folder to a new folder and converted the workspace to a solutio...
ConnectToNewObject("Excel.Application") without MS
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 hour ago
Hello everyone,
Is it possible to process or create Excel XLSX files without using Microsoft Excel or any other Microsoft Office applications?
We are looking to stop installing or using Microsoft products on our PCs. However, our existing code snip...
Hi,
Im wondering if there are any plans for DataWindow to support PDF/UA tagging in reports we create in PowerBuilder, so that they comply with ISO 14289. In Europe, accessibility requirements for PDF documents from banks will come into effect betwe...
Multiple MDI windows - shortcuts
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- Last updated 2 days ago
- Tomáš Podzimek replied 4 hours ago
Hi all,
We have a MDI application. Our users would like to use it on multiple screensso they can see more forms at once, etc.
I was able to move a form to a new MDI window - so far so good.
But there's a problem with shortcuts. Every MDI window ha...
We have recently migrated from PowerBuilder 2022 R3 to PowerBuilder 2025 Build 3683. Additionally, our applications have been migrated to the new "Solution" structure. Since the migration, we are experiencing critical stability issues: PowerBuilder c...
PowerServer deployment with .exe "license has not started error"
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 11 hours ago
Hello,
I am trying to install a PowerServer deployment with an executable. The launch page shows up fine but when I try to launch I get the following error.
This error is not mentioned on any of Appeons troubleshooting documents. All other depl...
Inquiry Regarding External DataWindow Column Limit
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Shubham Dhameliya replied 13 hours ago
Dear Team,I am currently working with an external-type DataWindow in PowerBuilder and have encountered a limitation. External-type DataWindows are restricted to a maximum of 1000 columns, and I am facing an issue as my DataWindow exceeds this limit w...
how to set retrieval arguments values in data window without calling retrieving function (in PowerBuilder 2017 R3)
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- Last updated 18 hours ago
in PowerBuilder 2017 RS
how to set retrieval arguments values in data window without calling retrieving function.Ex: I am importing the data into data window and need to set specific value in the Datawind after importing the values
When I scroll the data window, the column other than the one under the cursor scrolls.
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- Last updated 5 days ago
- John Fauss replied 22 hours ago
I'm using a translation to ask the question, so I apologize if the meaning is incorrect.
Hello, I'm using powerbuilder 2017 R3 for development, but I'm having trouble with the following phenomenon.
About window and data window settings
The windo...
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