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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
  1. PowerBuilder
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
how do i implement openinterfaces in wildfly 10 ?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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how do i implement openinterfaces in wildfly 10 ?
  1.  PowerServer Web
Juan Alejandro Lam López Juan Alejandro Lam López
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Extracting public key from a CER file
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Alzate replied 2 years ago
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Hi everyone. How to get the public key from a .CER (certificate) file sent by third party? What PowerBuilder function to use? Thanks in advance for your responses!
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerBuilder
Call rest api with post method via restclient or httpclient
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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Hello, I need to pass a Blob to rest api service to save a blob via post call. When I'm calling the postdatastart with the URL I'm getting error -1 (that's mean general error). I installed Postman app to see if there is a problem and monitor the p...
eyal hadad eyal hadad
  1. PowerBuilder
Save Rows As for Both Primary and Nested Reports
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  PowerObject ! replied 2 years ago
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I'd like to have a nested report within a main report and to be able to save all rows - from both the nested and primary report - into Excel. Is there any way to do that? When I try, it saves only the rows from the primary report and does not save th...
  1.  InfoMaker
Paul Weir Paul Weir
  1. InfoMaker
Apache Echarts - SaveAsImage
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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Hi all, [Edited, the link to Echarts was incorrect] I've implemented the Apache E-charts in our application and have a problem with the Toolbox feature SaveAsImage. It shows on the toolbox, but when I click on it, nothing happens and the toolbox d...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
How to connect to PostgreSQL with ODBC x64
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, I try to connect with Powerbuilder 2022 x64 with ODBC to PostgreSQL x64 For 32bits I use the code  ls_dbparm = "ConnectString='Driver=PostgreSQL Unicode;"ls_dbparm += lnv_ini.of_getconnect_database( )ls_dbparm += lnv_ini.of_getconnect_serve...
S Lambert S Lambert
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Webbrowser control losefocus()
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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For the olecustomcontrol there is an event called losefocus()   I am moving away from ole to webbrowser control.   I can't seem to find losefocus() or anything equivalent to that.   Any ideas?
Nish Ag Nish Ag
  1. PowerBuilder
Is there an MDI regain focus event?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Tracy Lamb replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi Friends, I have an MDI app.  In one of MDI sheets, I have a dw object and a tab object.  Both objects have code for the rbuttonup event that pops up a different menu depending on which object or tab is clicked. When the user has the app running ...
  1.  PFC
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Question about organizing of resource files
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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PB 2021 , build 1506, 32 bit From the distant past we have inherited a program structure with exe files and pbd files for all our applications. In the application projects, the exe files and pbd files are assigned pbr files exactly matching the ico...
  1.  32-bit
  2.  Icon
  3.  PBD
Sverre Tvedt Sverre Tvedt
  1. PowerBuilder
ExportJson using Template
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hello Alli need to Export a Datawindow to a Json the issue is that the the items have Upper and Lower case  like :codigoDepartamentoReceptor or fechaHora when i create the datawindow the name are always change to all lowercase i did try to use the...
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Computed columns with SQLite
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 2 years ago
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Hello, Using Powerbuilder 2019 R3, SQLite, ODBC Driver from http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ Need to cast a computed column as date, but PB interprets it as a char column only.  I tried Datawindow's column specification, we get All those compu...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  SQLite
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
SnapObject Project to connect to Sybase ASE
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi all, I'm banging my head against the wall here.  I'm been working with snapdevelop and visual studio to migrate our old client server application [Front end connects to ASE directly]. hoping to evolve to an architecture where front end interact...
  1.  ASE
  2.  C#
  3.  SnapDevelop
  4.  Web API
Maurice Losier Maurice Losier
  1. SnapDevelop
Can I change the dataobject of a datawindowchild dynamically?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
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I have a datawindow with a dropdowndatawindow (datawindowchild). I want to change the dataobject of the dropdowndatawindow base on if their is some data in a table. I try the following but PowerBuilder tells me invalid property. //cch declare the da...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Clarence Chamorro Clarence Chamorro
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
HttpClient using in PowerBuild2021
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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We are using powerbuilder 2021. We migrated from powerbuilder11.5 to powerbuilder2021. We are in middle of converting web calls. We wanted to use HttpClient as recommended by Appeon. I am calling a url which is wdsl has a function requires 3 paramete...
Rajagopal VV Rajagopal VV
  1. PowerBuilder
How to connect to SQL Server with Windows integrated authentication?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Thanks for any hint Peter
Peter Klopfer Peter Klopfer
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder VM not found when starting a service
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
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We have a service which was built in PB 2017.  We have upgraded the service and deployed it to a new Windows Server VM. When we try start the service, we get this error I then checked in Event Viewer and the error is "Powerbuilder VM not found". ...
Tanya Weaver Tanya Weaver
  1. PowerBuilder
Change Datawindow data access to something other than direct DB connection
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Question to the PB Community: We have a monolithic application consisting of a PowerBuilder frontend and C# .NET application server, both of which are tied to a MS SQL Server database. When the application was first written it was strictly PB, but o...
  1.  Database
  2.  DataWindow
  3.  Service
Tim Ford Tim Ford
  1. PowerBuilder
How to run a desktop application on different databases
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi all. We have a desktop application that runs only on Oracle (currently using PowerBuilder 10 but we are already getting 2021). I am looking for tips on better ways to make this application also run on SQLServer. It is based on datawindows but a...
Luiz Ribeiro Luiz Ribeiro
  1. PowerBuilder
HTML editor for creating the body of an email
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
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Hello, My application sends outbound emails and I need my users to be able to edit the body of the email.  Id like them to be able to format the body of the email with the same type of options as if you were in Outlook or another email tool which ...
  1.  Editor
  2.  Email
Mitch Goldstein Mitch Goldstein
  1. PowerBuilder
conn.Useintegratedwindowsauthentication( True) bad runtime function reference runtime on 2 out of 1000 client PCs
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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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Old school PowerBuilder. Using PB 19 R3 Build 2670. Basic client server. Calling a Web service proxy via SOAP. Code sample below: TRY        conn.Useintegratedwindowsauthentication( True)    CATCH (Throwable x)        ls_error = x.GetMessage()     ...
Ed Van Haren Ed Van Haren
  1. PowerBuilder

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