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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 7 months 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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- How-to
- 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. :)
pbni object creation error
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Charlie Shilling replied 1 month ago
Dear experts,
As my first pbni attempt, created pbni nvo pbadd as given in pbni example. The object was created using win32 option in Visual studio 2019. The object could be imported as pb extension and it displays the function f_add(). If we click ...
Software fails to execute after migration from PB17 to PB19 and PB22
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
Hello everyone,
I manage and maintain two PB applications A and B, A being quite complex and B a tool to manage accesses to A, linked to several Oracle i9 databases.
They are developped in PB2017R3 #1915, which will soon become obsolete so we are ...
Sheetlist in Ribbonbar
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
Is there a way to change the "Sheetlist" name in the Ribbonbar that PB 2025 may create from a menu?
FileDelete function does not delete file on PB2019 R3, PB2022 R3
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi Team,
I am encountering an issue while attempting to delete a .pdf file generated in a temporary folder on my machine. Below are the steps to replicate the problem:
Copy the contents of the file into a blob variable.
Create a .pdf file in the...
Is there any way to secure a pbl so that only certain users can access it? We are looking at the possibility of creating an Infomaker report that contains FERPA data. Since it contains FERPA data, we want to limit the users that can see the report....
UNC resolution in PB2022 R3 64 bit with mapped drive
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- John Fauss replied 1 month ago
We are running PB2022 R3
FUNCTION Long WNetGetUniversalName(String lpLocalPath, Long MustBe1or2, ref Blob lpBuffer, ref Long lpBufSize) Library "mpr.dll" Alias For "WNetGetUniversalNameW"
When you run this in 32 bit it works
When you run thi...
We are migrating an application from PB2017 to PB2022R3.
As part of the documentation for migration it speaks to the following:
RichTextEdit control and RichText DataWindow changes - - Upgrading PowerBuilder Applications (appeon.com)
W...
PowerBuilder Language pack related
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Ganesan Rajan replied 1 month ago
Hi,
Recently we received source code of PB App. But throughout the app, they have used Spanish language i.e comments, variable name, object naming.
Can you please let me know whether it is possible to see all these in English?
Thanks,
Ganesan R
Anyone use 'Microsoft Print to PDF' to Save Documents Automatically?
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Christopher Craft replied 1 month ago
PB 2022
Wondering if anyone has used 'Microsoft Print to PDF' as the DataWindow.Print.Printername while also specifying the DataWindow.Print.Filename in order to save PDF documents automatically so the SaveAs popup does not show. I am trying to find...
QUESTION: With the recent PowerBuilder 2022 R2 update of ADO.NET, is PowerBuilder now enforcing rules that were not previously enforced?
What is described below WAS NOT a problem with PowerBuilder 2022 R1...but with the release of PowerBuilder 2...
AmyUni error from Powerbuilder - Printer not activated error code 30
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 month ago
Hi All,
We are using a Powerbuilder 2022 R3 application and it uses AmyUni tool for PDF conversion and printing. Recently we have upgraded AmyUni from 6.0 to 6.5 version and below changes are done in the application code:
Changes to point to n...
Silent installation of PowerBuilder 2017
- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Gastón Clara replied 1 month ago
Hello,
I'm trying to install Powerbuilder 2017 silently onto Windows 2016, however I can see the pre-requisite is SQLAnywhere2017.
Installing PB manually I can decide NOT to install SQLAnywhere, so wondering what's the reason behind this being requ...
Hello, for two days my Powerbuilder IDE 2022 R3 does not start anymore without displaying any error message.
There is a crash log in the Windows Application Event Viewer:
- Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
...
Unable to get the rows count with SQLCA.sqlnrows with ADO.NET Provider
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- David Xiong @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I am using the configuration below to connect to the database using the ADO.NET provider, and it connects successfully.
// Profile ADOTest
SQLCA.DBMS = "ADO.Net"SQLCA.LogPass = **************SQLCA.LogId = "***"SQLCA.AutoCommit = FalseSQLCA.DBParm ...
FileDelete function does not delete file in PB19 R2 and R3
- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- RITESH KUMAR replied 1 month ago
Hello how are you ?I'm facing difficulties to delete files with PDF extension generated in a temporary folder on my machine.These files are generated using the Datawindow/DataStore SaveAs function.I generate these files and put them in a vector to be...
PB2022 R3 RTF/TextEditor Alignment Issue
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
We have migrated our project from 2021 1506 to 2022 R3(3289). The latest version no longer support that TX Text Control ActiveX 15.0 or 28.0. We have window to create a cover letter where the data getting stored as rtf format . We have 3 columns...
Why are source files from PBL's created during PB Solution migration encoded using UTF-8
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 month ago
In testing PB 2025 Beta2, I've noticed that the object source files that are created during the migration to a PB Solution, as well as the new .pbsln and .pbproj files use UTF-8 encoding, and this greatly surprises me... since PB uses Unicode 16LE en...
Old .ini file for database connection
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I've been away from Infomaker for a few years and recently renewed my license. From previous use I saved a SQL.ini file with all my DB connections (Sybase). Can I just replace the im.ini file with the old SQL.ini file to set up the data connections...
Newspaper datawindow saveaspdf not showing correctly
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
We have a 2-column newspaper datawindow with a heading at the top that goes across the entire page and then the data in the detail band. Everything displays correctly in Print Preview mode in our application. We need to save this as a PDF so we can...
Error while trying to add project references
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi Team,I'm building a class library using .net core 3.1 in which I need to access windows registry keys for validating acrobat installation, I'm trying to use below code but received an errorusing Microsoft.Win32;
Error: "CS1069 The type name 'Re...
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