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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- 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.   :) 
            Program in PB 2022 does not open in Windows 10
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- Last updated 2 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I have an application built in Powerbuilder 17 that I can access over Windows 10 without any issues. The same application migrated to PB 2022 does not open for me. The Event Viewer logs an Application Error with Exception Code 0x c000005. My other co...
            Dynamic SQL Type 4 Powerserver 2022 - null SQLDA.OutParmType values
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Jim Nesbitt replied 2 years ago
Our applications use Dynamic SQL Type 4 to execute SQL server select statements and stored procedures which return a single row. 
We use Dynamic SQL Type 4 as we have a user object that executes the SQL and does all the necessary checking. It return...
                    
            Install PB2021-1509 on a new computer
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 2 years ago
I have a customer that has a brand new computer and was trying to install my application.  He keeps getting the following error:
He downloaded all the files from my FTP site. I included the following files in his download:
atl100.dllmsvcp100.dllm...
                    
            Me again!
Today when testing my app, I keep getting a popup asking for a retrieval argument for edit_user.  That's not a field I would ever do a retrieval argument on. Not sure why PB is asking for a retrieval argument.
The window I'm opening has...
                    
            How can I disable the RichTextToolbar?
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- Last updated 2 years ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 2 years ago
Hi all,
I thought I'd play around with the RichText edit style on one of the fields in a datawindow.  I don't want the toolbar to show up every time I click in that field. Rather, I'd like something like the CTRL+ALT+D (or some other shortcut) to po...
                    
            How to trigger both ButtonClicked and Clicked DataWindow events?
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Michael Connell replied 2 years ago
Hi Guys,
Is it possible to trigger both the ButtonClicked and the Clicked DataWindow events when clicking a button in a DW control?
On a window I have a DataWindow control containing a button.
The button's properties are as follows:
SuppressEvent...
            Questions About Multi-Threading
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I have used SharedObject functions to do multi-threading so I am familiar with the concepts. My app doesn't have a user interface. The main thread runs in the background listening for processing requests via Winsock.
The first question is about re-u...
            Hi
II'm trying to download files from Dropbox In  pb app.
I tried to use the rest api, as was demonstrated on Kevin's webinar.
That works well, but the access token used is temporary only... And expires. 
How can I code a script for that, but wit...
            Hi all,
 
We are experimenting on using rich text edits in our program, when we had a question about which data type can rich text edit uses. I tried to search up some articles but did not find a definitive answer and was hoping someone on here as ...
                    
            IIS server PowerBuilder + .net runtime file installation
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Jesus Perez replied 2 years ago
Hi,
We just migrate our PowerBulder SOAP Webesrvices from 12.5 to 2021 (connecting to an Oracle 12 database).
We deployed the MSI file on our IIS server and we moved manualy the content of runtime folder (21.0.0.1509) and DotNet bin folder (located...
            Report Column/Band Autosize Height sometimes too high!
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- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I'm changing the length of some database columns that are on a lot of reports to allow 40 instead of 20 characters. To avoid changing the portrait-mode tabular reports to landscape, I'm leaving the width of the report field the same, and changing bot...
                    
            Any plan for PB 2022 R2 Beta?
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
Hello,
Shall we expect a beta for PB 2022 R2?  Is there any plan for that?
Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash
 
                    
            Hi,
We're having problems with the app not updating at the client when we update it at the server. We're having to delete the app from C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\PBApps\Applications and hit the download link again in order to get the new version. ...
                    
            Defining a PowerServerLabel
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Louis Arena replied 2 years ago
I recently converted my app to PowerServer.  I am starting to do some performance enhancements and would like to use the startmerge / endmerge when making calls to the SQL server.  Whenever I investigate this I repeatedly see the following link.
htt...
            PowerServer app crashing...now no more licenses to continue debugging
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Lerwill replied 2 years ago
I am trying to debug why my PowerServer application is crashing when I click on a field in a datawindow.  In the process, I have had the application crash 5 times today.  Now, when I attempt to debug the application I get the error below (screenshot ...
            PB 17r3 b1880 : SaveAs creates empty file
- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
 
Happy Friday, All -
Looking to see if anyone else has run into a similar, yet very bizarre, issue :
Version : We are using PB 17r3 Build 1880. ( Code was migrated from PB 10 long before I started working for the company )
OS : Windows 10 Enterp...
            Question about scrollbar behavior.
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Troy Cowan replied 2 years ago
My team supports a PowerBuilder application that is quite old. We have noticed that on some windows, the vertical scroll bar does not move the buttons and text boxes and such up and down, but instead seems to select different rows of data to show in ...
            Hi,
I plan to move one of our applications from traditional C/S to using APIs. The application uses query mode extensively. If the datawindow is not connected to a database, GetSQLSelect() does not include the entered criteria in the WHERE clause. 
...
            c# Model Generation for NUMBER DataWindow Column
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- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I am in the process of attempting to convert a client-server application to be delivered by PowerServer.  After I publish the AppModels and run the application I am finding the most common issue is in a c# model generated for a datawindow that has co...
            .NET Runtime error Event 1000
- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
I've been getting behavior where my app some time stops responding. When I look in the server Application event log I'm seeing these in pairs. Not sure if they are actually related to my issue but wondering if anyone can shed some like on how to debu...
            
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