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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 8 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. :)
Is saving a window in PB 2022 R3 slow?
- Issue
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hello,
PB 2022 R3 Build 3289
We here feel that saving a window in PB 2022 R3 [IDE] is slow compared to PB 2019 R3. Do others feel the same? We have developed only a part of another project.
Every time we save a window, after making any changes ...
Cast Datawindow to DataStore
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- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Paweł Kasperek replied 10 months ago
Hi,
I have got a question about the possibility of casting an instance of Datawindows to DataStore or vice-versa. I wrote multiple functions with the same body (functionality) but different argument types Datawindow and DataStore. I didn't duplicate...
PB2022 R2 TabbedView controllable features?
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
I like the tabbedview interface feature in PB2022R2. We've been using the TabbedDocument style of Dockable windows for a couple years now (with OpenSheetAsDocument, rather than the plain old OpenSheet commands). It worked relatively well but was a ...
PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1892. Ghostscript 10.01.2.
Many of our customers are now running our application via Remote Apps. We have a report with a .png file of the IRS W-2 form in the background with data controls being placed over the appropriate bo...
runandwait/createprocess waiting for user input
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Ruth Spradlin replied 10 months ago
Hi, I am trying to modify some code to run automatically without user input, so it can be run like a batch process. The code creates a sql file, then uses run and wait and createprocess to execute the sql code and output the results to a file. When...
Example of adding checkbox and text control in a PDF
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Vassilis Filippopoulos replied 10 months ago
Hi PB developers.
Is there an example for adding checkboxes and fillable text in PB 2022R3 ?
Thank you.
Rotating PDFText in PDFobject
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hi all
I'm tying to write a codebar in the left border of a multy-page PDF file using PowerBuilder 2022 R3.
I Want to create a new PDFText object with an codebar font ("Free 3 of 9") and add this new object to an PDF object (test.pdf) where prev...
Appeon Cluster configuration file
- Issue
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hello,
We have PowerServer 2020 web application and have web server and 2 cluster app server setup. Some of our users are getting Error 11030 "Failed to handle the request because the Appeon Cluster configuration file is not configured properly in t...
AppCrash event from PowerBuilder 2022r3 IDE (Microsoft Edge Webview2)
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- Issue
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 10 months ago
I'm noticed that PowerBuilder IDE is logging "Windows Error Reporting" events for APPCRASH PB220.exe 22.2.0.3289 KERNELBASE.dll 10.0.17763.5328
The funny thing is that PB is not running, and it's still logging errors. It's logging several items ...
Hi,
My starting point is that I have created a .DLL which I call from the application, running x64-bit mode.
In my development PC (Win11) everything works fine, when running the application either from the PB IDE or standalone from a separate fold...
Failed using Mscomm32 with 64 bits powerbuilder application
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hello community,
Do you think it's possible to use mscomm32.ocx when compiling Powerbuilder executable in 64 bits ?
For me it works fine when I compile in 32 bits but not in 64 bits. I get "error accessing external object properties" with the sa...
Webbrowser control is not loading PDF file when application is ran via exe
- Advice
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hi All,
I am using PB 2022 build 1878.
In our application we are using webbrowser control to view PDF files (local). When we run application via IDE, everything works fine (pdf file is loaded and displayed. but when I run the application via exe, p...
how to prevent a messagebox from displaying when i don't need it in some cases
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 10 months ago
in my powerbuilder 19 project, it's all about article management. when i click on "new" button, it displays a dwc_article(freeform) empty and i have to insert all the article details(reference, name ...) and in itemfocuschanged event of dwc_article. ...
Successful deploy to IIS but need to deploy to Docker/Kubernetes
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 10 months ago
I have deployed a project to IIS on a server and its working fine, but now need to deploy to Docker container. I'm not sure the best route to go since this is new to me. Should I try to deploy the demo application first or go ahead and deploy my ap...
How safe is the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag for 32-bit PowerBuilder applications
- Advice
- Last updated 10 months ago
Our application is currently built on 32-bit PowerBuilder 2019 R3, with migration to 64-bit in the distant future. We've hit some problems now and then with our application taking up to 2 GB of memory, and was wondering if any testing has been done w...
Environment. Converting Powerbuilder 2017 to Powerbuilder 2022
Is there any way to bypass the C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 22.2.0.3289 access/process and be able to use an in house directory for processing the DLLs, both...
Sequence syntax from Oracle to SqlServer
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- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Mark Goldsmith replied 10 months ago
I'm converting my DB from Oracle to SqlServer. Everything is working but I'm needing to convert Oracle Sequences to SqlServer. I have the sequence created in the database and it works when I issue this command.
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR trans_id_seq...
Is it legitimate to activate PowerServer license inside trial PowerBuilder Cloud Pro?
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 10 months ago
Is it legitimate to activate PowerServer license inside trial PowerBuilder Cloud Pro?
Will PowerServer work after trial period of PowerBuilder Cloud Pro is over?
How to copy data from subreport on a nested dw
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Berka Frenfert replied 10 months ago
I have a nested dw (dw_data) which has a subreport dw_1. I want to copy all the data from the nested dw (dw_1) to another datawindow (dw_fake) since I cannot do a saveas on anything but the parent. I tried to loop thru parent and use rowscopy but tha...
How to release excessive memory
- How-to
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Roland Smith replied 10 months ago
I have an application that uses a large amount of memory. Using GarbageCollect doesn't release memory back to the operating system that I can tell.
Is there an undocumented function to tell PowerBuilder's internal memory manager that it should relea...
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