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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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
PB 2019 OleObject not working?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hello. We are migrating a client/server desktop application from PB 17 to PB 19. Some of our OLEObject functionality appears to have broken, and I'm looking for some help. Here is a snippet of the code in question: String str_run OleObject wsh In...
Cesar Armando Garcia Liñan Cesar Armando Garcia Liñan
  1. PowerBuilder
SQL IM014
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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Hi,   I installed the PowerBuilder trial on a 32bit machine and everything is working fine.  Since our goal is to run it in a 64bit machine I went ahead and installed in a 64bit machine.  However, I am not able to connect to the database.  Instead,...
Lorna Vargas Lorna Vargas
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 R2 B 2353 SaveAs PDF! Returns -1
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Lynn A Haynes replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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li_ret=dw_rpt.SaveAs(ls_filename, PDF!, false) li_ret=dw_rpt.SaveAs(ls_filename, Text!, false)   PDF! returns -1, Text! returns 1. What's up? Is there some NativePDF not set?
  1.  PDF
Lynn A Haynes Lynn A Haynes
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Manufacturer Serial number of (external) hdd
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, This is not the relevant forum for this.  Still thought that someone could guide me in the right direction. I want to read the manufacturer-assigned serial number of an external hard disk, which is (almost) unique and won't change even if it...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
PB application opens PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Standard and move to second monitor
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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Good Afternoon! We are using PB2019 R2 Build 2328. I'm looking for some helps! The request is : open PDF images from the database with Adobe Acrobat Standard 2017 and display the PDF files on the second monitor. The coding that gets PDF images in...
Kieu Parrish Kieu Parrish
  1. PowerBuilder
https onto powerserver web
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, System using - powerserver 2019 iis 8.5 on windows 2012 r2 Can anyone help, this may be my lack of understanding on iis rather than a powerserver problem, i can not remember if there was a setting when i installed powerserver as to whether i wa...
  1.  HTTP/S
  2.  PowerServer Web
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
How to detect a change in the contents of a richtext edit control
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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I have a richtext edit control and I'm trying to figure out if a user has done any changes or not, before closing the window. I've tried the modified event without success. I rarely seems to fire. I've tried the key-event (pbm_rnkey) without succes...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
.netcore dll runtime files?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, I've created a nvo using the .net dll importer tool for .net core. Everything is working fine within my development environment and with the installed application on the development environment(even when changing the appeon directory to rule out...
Gary Eden Gary Eden
  1. PowerBuilder
Modernize Existing Datawindows and Reports
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
This product to make reports, you have to buy it separately .... you are promoting another company or it will come with PB 2019 R3, Ultimate Suite has a special price for those of us who have a PB license   Luis
Luis Pesaressi Luis Pesaressi
  1. Elevate Discussion
PowerServer 2020 Build 2323 64bit and MS 2008 R2
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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Hi, Does anyone know if PowerServer 2020 Build 2323 64 bit still run on a MS 2008 R2 server environment? Thanks Bryant
  1.  PowerServer Web
Bryant Burnard Bryant Burnard
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
HrrpClient.SendRequest is very slow on some PC
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Kiran Patel replied 4 years ago
7 replies
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After Deploy application on client pc, I found on some pc Windows 7, Windows 10 application is very slow to retrieve data from server Develop on Appeon PowerBuilder 2019 R2 Build 2353 Deploy on Windows 7, Windows 10 64Bit On Development PC it take...
Kiran Patel Kiran Patel
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder deployment to PBDs not being written
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
5 replies
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I'm having a problem when trying to deploy our application. For some reason it is not writing the PBD files. I am currently using Appeon PowerBuilder 2019 R2 Build 2353 on Windows 10 Enterprise Version 10 Build 18363. I last deployed the application ...
  1.  Deployment
  2.  PBD
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
John Poitras John Poitras
  1. PowerBuilder
RibbonBar and Sheet with Menu Issue
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Christopher Craft replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Is there a secret to using sheet windows that have a menu with a RibbonBar control on the frame? If I remove the menu from w_sheet then I can get the windows to show but if it has a menu then the first will show and any other window will cause the wh...
Christopher Craft Christopher Craft
  1. PowerBuilder
Richtext DW - Page() function acting weird
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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Hi everyone, I'm having trouble getting the Page() function to behave in a Richtext Datawindow in PB2019 R2 (and earlier until at least PB2017 R3). In some cases, the page() function just plain doesn't work (i.e. always returns the same value no ma...
Markus Eckert Markus Eckert
  1. PowerBuilder
AEM vs INI DB connecion parameters
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi, all. Please, consider the following situation: In my Web app, I programmatically fill SQLCA from an INI file and connect to a specific database. In AEM, for the same app, SQLCA connects to a different database. How does PS resolve this incoher...
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Serializing date time in datawindow to json
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
5 replies
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Hi, We are using PowerBuilder client to connect to Asp.net web API service. But when we export the datawindow to Json, we have issue with serializing date format. In PowerBuilder, the format is yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss. But ISO format is yyyy-mm-ddTHH:mm...
Haihong Yang Haihong Yang
  1. PowerBuilder
Ribbon Control Image Library wanted
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Richard Granquist replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Where is the best place to get an image library of all the new icons from within PowerBuilder 2019 AND from Microsoft so the images are the new flat design?  My goal would be to see a list of images so I could quickly pick the type of image I want.  ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  RibbonBar
  3.  RibbonBar Builder
Richard Granquist Richard Granquist
  1. PowerBuilder
How to default to Excel12 extension using GetFileSaveName()?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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Hello Everyone, I am trying to use the function GetFileSaveName() to open a folder and would like to default the Excel12 extension (*.xlsx).  But I have no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Kevin
Kevin Dinh Kevin Dinh
  1. PowerBuilder
Need Help - Where can I get the PB12.5 Localized Runtime DLLs for Portuguese
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Kevin Dinh replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, Where can I get the PB12.5 Localized Runtime DLLs for Portuguese? We are slowly migrating to PB2019; But our product still using PB12.5. Anyone know where I can download the Localized Runtime DLLs for Portuguese in PB12.5. FYI - We do not hav...
Kevin Dinh Kevin Dinh
  1. PowerBuilder
Summary band native PDF
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Daniel Johnson replied 4 years ago
4 replies
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Hi.   In PB2019R2:   We experience a weird situation when saving a datawindow to PDF using the Native method. The summary band autosizes, even if the checkmark is off and the height is set to 0. We have even extracted the datawindow syntax usin...
  1.  NativePDF
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Bjarne Anker Bjarne Anker
  1. PowerBuilder

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