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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.   :) 
            App window becomes maximized after the screen turns on again
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- Last updated 4 months ago
- William Hong replied 4 months ago
I have set the screen to turn off in 1 minute after there is no operation on my Windows 10. But after the screen turns on again, my PB window will be maximized automatically, anyone knows why?
            Problems with RibbonBar: It consumes too much GDI resources.
- Issue
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 4 months ago
130 GDI handles / per RibbonBar control.
Our program uses Tab controls in many windows, with a large number of tabpages. In each tabpage, RibbonBar is used instead of CommonButton. However, one consequence of this is that the RibbonBar consumes too ...
            Appeon Web Library error: The column type does not match.
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- Last updated 5 months ago
- Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 months ago
Dear PowerBuilders colleagues,
I encountered this issue when using PowerBuilder 2019 R3 on the front end and SQLServer 2018 on the back end.
I deployed my application as a web application, created a package, and then installed it on the client serv...
            PowerBuilder IDE Crashing randomly on open or close of window
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 months ago
- Jeff Gibson replied 4 months ago
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3397Windows 10 Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045, 4651)I have a contract that I'm deep in the middle of that is for a state federal organization that unfortunately can't release the code to Appeon to look for this bug. Either wa...
                    
            Using PB2022R3 when you have a check box whose text spans multiple lines, the box is now centered in the text, where in previous versions it was top aligned on the text.
Is there any way to fix that?
I have attached a word document created that s...
            PB/IM 2022 Build 1892, SQL Server 2019, ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server
Our pbcatcol table has a row for every column in the database. It is used in the PowerBuilder application.
In InfoMaker and PowerBuilder, the graphic view of DataWindow SQL doesn...
            Does ExportJSON / ImportJSON support nested reports?
- How-to
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
PB 2022 Build 1892
Does ExportJSON / ImportJSON support nested reports?
            Hi,
I am migrating one of our applications from PowerBuilder 2022 R3 to PowerBuilder 2025 Solution. When I try to build the newly migrated app I get a warning that it can't find the resource file, specifically a data window.In my .pbr file, the data...
            PowerBuilder crash while saving descendant windows
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Heelah Rozanski replied 4 months ago
I have a child type window that is a base for 14 windows that inherit from it.
the descendant windows are opened from the same window within the parent.
the descendants all have the same: width, height, x. y as the parent they are open form.
the b...
                    
            Compile failure: One or more PowerBuilder objects failed to compile ...
- Issue
- Last updated 5 months ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 4 months ago
After switching branches in git, I get this:
Compile failure
One or more PowerBuilder objects failed to compile in your local PBL(s) after getting the latest revision from the source control server.
One of the other threads with a question about...
                    
            PB25 not starting after initial startup screen
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Peter Morton replied 4 months ago
I performed a windows 11 update and went to start PB25. Initial PB25 popup displays but PB25 does not start.
Attached screenshot when I click on PB25 in the taskbar - Any ideas??
                    
            Any idea how to make a picker wheel on PB?
- How-to
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
Hi, I looking for a way to build a picker wheel on PB, but it seems the most effective and simple way is make a browser component and link to a web page which written by else languages because lots of examples on Github you know , is it really challe...
            Issue when trying to run a bat file to build a powerbuilder 2025 solution
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- Issue
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Daniel Seguin replied 4 months ago
Hello I am trying to implement CI/CD with powerbuilder solution
Here is the bat file to build the solution
rem name: pbbuild.bat
rem Description: This script builds the PowerBuilder project using PBAutoBuild and copies the output files to the UAT ...
            DW SaveAs To Clipboard Removes Leading Zeros
- How-to
- Last updated 5 months ago
- John Fauss replied 4 months ago
Using PB 2022.
Our users don't want to do SaveAs to Excel. They want to use a function that was provided to them which copies the datawindow into Clipboard and then they paste into Excel.
The problem is that it removes the leading zeros.
What is t...
            Hi Team,{
  "data": {    "content": [{        "Name": "test",        "country": "GB",        "Contact info": {          "email": "test@gmail.com",          "businessUnit": "GB01"        }      },      {        "Name": "test1",        "country": "KB"...
            Migration to PowerBuilder 2025 all windows are blank
- Issue
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
After migrating my application from PB 2022 R3, when I run the application from either the PB 2025 GUI or compiled, all windows are showing up completely blank, no objects are being rendered on any of the windows.
Can someone help with this?
Thank ...
            PB 2025 .NET Datastore project for SQL Anywhere - ODBC architecture mismatch
- How-to
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
I'm getting ready to migrate from PB 2019 R3 to PB 2025, and I see significant changes to the process of generating C# Models from PB Datawindows.
First, I notice that SnapDevelop is no longer bundled with PowerBuilder. I understand that SnapDevelop...
                    
            I have an application that needs an LDAP (Active Directory) login. In my previous project I have managed to create an application that has LDAP login. I created it using webservice but I am not quiet happy with its speed. Sometimes, it takes 1 minute...
                    
            Powerserver Http vs Https slow
- Issue
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
Hi,
I have a strange one i have tested my deployed application and when i run it using HTTP (non encrypted ) my App runs more than twice as fast as when it is using HTTPS.
I have tested this by changing the Apprun.json file switching between http...
            Hello,
I have started using PB 2025. My application uses PFC extensively. I am encountering the error "unknow control mditbb_1". I have downloaded the latest PFC libraries and saw that there is line to bypass that control in the security object. I...
            
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