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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks 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 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) 
            PB2021 causing error in Embedded Stored Procedure Calls. RunTime 19.2.0.2728
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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...
            theme.json tab settings overriding TabTextColor (2019R2)
- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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...
                    
            Saving PDF using NativePDF! creates wrong size pages
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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...
                    
            No resize on response windows when using themes
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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...
            Bad Runtime Function Reference calling pbdom_document in deployed application
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
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 ...
            Having trouble with appsettings.json file, can someone send a sample
            Issue calling a .Net Dll from PowerBuilder 2019
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
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...
            Datawindow fails update on PowerServer
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Can anyone help with this:
I've got a PB application and on a window there is a classic header/detail layout with two datawindows.  You can update details in header and detail and when you save the data is updated using DW Update() function.
This a...
            Ancestor failed to read the DW when passed in ue_broadcast event
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
Hi,
    We have a code where we are passing the data window in ue_broadcast event to get call in different tab page associated within that window to share the dw b/w main dw and datastore.  This is working fine in PB 2019 R3 Build 2703 but after we ...
            PB19 installed - how do I get the examples application
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
I am a consultant and PB 19 has been installed on a server but I dont see the usual PB examples application. I see no workspace or target files at all. How can I get the examples application?
            Upgrading Cloud App Launcher CAL in non-AppData Locale
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- John Strano replied 3 years ago
QUESTION TO ENGINEERING...
When the CAL needs to be upgraded to the next runtime build of PowerBuilder,
does it look to see where it's installed on the Client workstation by 
1) using the Registry to determine the Users' AppData location, OR HOPEF...
                    
            Unresolvable external on a olecontrol
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hello, all
We have a serious issue.
There is a complicated user object, inherited from OLE control, which is used by multiple applications.
We set it up in a separate PBL and compiled it separately.
Library lists of the main desktop applications ...
                    
            Default Printer not Set Correctly (Citrix Environment)
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hi Community,
 
As per https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/pb2019-r2-build-2328-default-printer-setting-issue, there is a problem where the initial selected printer would be set to the "last printer in the printer list".I tri...
            How can i take out the scrollbars of my echarts graphs ?
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 3 years ago
I want take out the scrollbars which are on the picture.
I'm using the Powerbuilder-Graph-Example to reproduce it on my app.
                    
            Using PowerClient to distribute an app which uses ADO.net
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
We have an application we're trying to move from PB 2019 R2 Build 2353 to PB 2021 Build 1506. At the same time, we're also looking to distribute the application using PowerClient. The initial testing looks promising apart from not being able to conne...
            Can't get Monitor Info in order to Restore Frames Position
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Roland Smith replied 3 years ago
I am trying to use the Windows API GetMonitorInfo but my returned structure seems to always be NULL.  I followed this  ( https://rgagnon.com/pbdetails/powerbuilder-display-on-the-second-monitor.html ) as my starting point but it is not working.  The ...
            Windows 11 - Text in a dropdown field continues beneath the dropdown button
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Howdy All,
We are currently on PB 2019 R3, and noticed when running in Windows 11 that the scrollbar on dropdown datawindows is translucent and causes text to show behind it. This makes it look somewhat odd, and outside of hiding the dropdown arrow ...
                    
            No actualiza Runtime en PowerBuilder 2021, aparece el Runtime 19.2.0.2703
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- John Fauss replied 3 years ago
una vez instalado PowerBuilder 2021, al iniciarlo no se actualiza el RunTime:
presenta el Runtime 19.2.0.2703, no toma el Runtime 21.0.0.1506, a que se debe por favor y que debo hacer para solucionarlo, ya que en el project no presenta el objecto Po...
            PS 2021 updating last update user
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
I have a client who is moving forward with a conversion to PowerServer 2021 from PB 2017.  Client is up and running with a test version but has a few things to resolve before they can make a final decision.  The most important is they have many table...
            DW XML Template for repeated tags
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hi all.
I am having a problem when importing an XML to a DW, because I don't know how to make the template for the following case:
The template:
The problem is the repeated tags(derived, code y property). 
I have found a solution to the probl...
            
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