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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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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
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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
How to make a phone call with callto:
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Roy Bungert replied 6 months ago
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Hello If I enter "callto:0123456" as an URL in my browser, I can make a phone call via my IP-based phone system.  How can I manage this with Powerbuilder? I tried HyperlinkToUrl() and I tried SendRequest() with the HTTPClient without success. Any i...
Roy Bungert Roy Bungert
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder on the all new Microsoft Copilot+ ARM based Windows machine
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 6 months ago
4 replies
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Hi Appeon   Will PowerBuilder work on the new Microsoft Copilot+ ARM based Windows machines ? And if yes will it be using the x86 emulator or natively? If only the emulator will Appeon support Windows ARM based computers or only on legacy x86 ? ...
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Steen Jakobsen Steen Jakobsen
  1. PowerBuilder
tabbedview checkbox missing
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 6 months ago
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Three days ago, Runtime 22.0.0.1900 was installed and the instructions for “Tabbedview” show that on a “mdi” or “mdihelp” window the checkbox for “tabbedview” is available. However, when I open my “mdihelp” window the checkbox is not there. Can anyon...
Cliff Gregory Cliff Gregory
  1. PowerBuilder
can't get my git repository connected
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
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I am trying to install the PB 2017 and connect to my git repository. The issue i am having is that we moved our git repository to the cloud (bitbucket.org) and use Windows credentials to log into the repository.   When I try setting up the git for...
Floyd Edwards Floyd Edwards
  1. PowerBuilder
How to set display format in DW to show actual (non zero) digits of number?
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 months ago
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Hello Everyone, working on extending existing PB application to support crypto, thus need to adopt application to work with DEC(27,18). PB support such datatype without a problem, but what about display formats? is there something similar to C#'s {0...
Dionizas Antipenkovas Dionizas Antipenkovas
  1. PowerBuilder
YugaBytesDB connection
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 6 months ago
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We going to migrate Sybase to YugaBytesDB , how do connect YugaBytesDB  from PowerBuilder? 
Chen Mey Lee Chen Mey Lee
  1. PowerBuilder
Webview2 Currency, Dates weird
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Brett Weaver replied 6 months ago
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PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356   We are using a PowerBuilder application to call a Blazor application to do some Fee calculation. With some users, the browser shows the currency symbol of a pound sign instead of a dollar and the drop down date fun...
Brett Weaver Brett Weaver
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Postgresql Identity values, how to obtain?
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 months ago
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Anyone using Postgresql - how are you obtaining the @@identity value of the last inserted record? (similar to SCOPE_IDENTITY in SQL Server).  There is an insert statement with the 'RETURNING id' clause but inline SQL in PB doesn't like this syntax. ...
Matt Balent Matt Balent
  1. PowerBuilder
HTTPClient.ReadData: IDE crashes during ReadData processing
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
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Dear Appeon Powerbuilder guys, I'm using PB 2022 (R1) MR 1900 32bit. During processing the response of a HTTP-POST-Request using a loop, PB crashes unexpectedly during concatenation of the incoming Blob-data. This is my code: HTTPClient lrc_DocEn...
Martin Eismann Martin Eismann
  1. PowerBuilder
JSONPackage, loadstring and getvalue failed due to bracket [...]
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Ong Chin Keat replied 6 months ago
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{ "submissionUid": "CNWRXZESJEZ1YQC3E7T8G20J10", "acceptedDocuments": [ { "uuid": "H2YRP9VQXFB4ZFHDE7T8G20J10", "invoiceCodeNumber": "9112450011" } ], "rejectedDocuments": [] } hi all, I'm calling an API and return above resu...
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Ong Chin Keat Ong Chin Keat
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder App 2019 Sometimes Crashes When Running From 2022
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Jeremy Vetter replied 6 months ago
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I have a PowerBuilder app runs fine in production when compiled with 2019.  We are trying to move to 2022 but that app starts but after hitting a button in one of the windows it crashes.  We can resolve this by regenerating one of the objects.  After...
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  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
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Jeremy Vetter Jeremy Vetter
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2019R3 / 2021 application terminates in oleacc.dll for some users on Windows 11
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Neil N replied 6 months ago
7 replies
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Introduction We are facing a PowerBuilder termination in some rare situations and only on a limited set of Windows installations. We do not have full details of the case, so we hope someone has a similar experience that might resolve our issue. Pow...
Jostein Ullestad Jostein Ullestad
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerServer 2021 Datawindow not found
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Louis Arena replied 6 months ago
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Got my PowerServer 2021 POC working, but having an issue with at least 1 datawindow not being found.  Unfortunately it's on the main screen that displays base data.  I've searched through the TroubleShooting documentation and I don't see anything abo...
Kevin Ridley Kevin Ridley
  1. PowerServer
ToolTipMsg( hWndTT, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, ToolInfo ) returning 0
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Pieter Coene replied 6 months ago
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Hi All, we are trying to migrate our application from 32 bit to 64 bit.  Now as per suggestion by migratation document i have chaged the cbsize to 64 , now i am getting error while calling ToolTipMsg( hWndTT, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, ToolInfo ). I am not s...
Subrat patra Subrat patra
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Vertical Navigation
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  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 6 months ago
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I'm trying to build some type of navigation for a 8 page tax form that when they click on a icon or item I will swap out the datawindow object to the correct section/page . The datawindow is shared so just one save needed. But I'm stuck between a rib...
Richard Carrier Richard Carrier
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PowerBuilder 2019 R3 - Insert Error
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
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We are using PowerBuilder 2019 R3 and recently,we have encountered an insert error message in the production environment when the end-user save the changes made. Appendix: Details of root cause The errors stem from, when PowerBuilder composes its SQ...
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ALEXANDER TAPIA ALEXANDER TAPIA
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder Resource file
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 7 months ago
3 replies
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Hi, I really can use quick help. I am Powerbuilder user for so many years but never used Resource file (.pbr). First time I run into issue of using it and not finding luck. Here is the scenario. I have files on network \\domain.com\images\xyz.gif ...
Amit Sharma Amit Sharma
  1. PowerBuilder
Dynamically create a window from a string
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 7 months ago
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I have a window name w_menu_holder I want to create the window from thje string "w_menu_holder" Is it possible to do so? This is what I am trying that doesn't work.   window lw_window // Declare a window variable string ls_window ls_window = 'w...
Robert Sawyer Robert Sawyer
  1. PowerBuilder
Error copying reports
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  1. Last updated 7 months ago
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IM 2022 End user migrated from IM 2019 using an ORCA based tool I wrote. It walks through all libraries in a folder and migrates each one. In IM 2022 they are getting the following error when attempting to Move or Copy a report from one library to ...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. InfoMaker
Get list of Windows Processes
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  1. Last updated 7 years ago
  2.  David Peace replied 7 months ago
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I need to get some information about current Window Processes We used to call VBScript to get that. After we migrate app to 64-bit it is impossible to call VBScript using MSScriptControl.ScriptControl ActiveX.  We are searching for alternatives...
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Yuri Denshchik Yuri Denshchik
  1. PowerBuilder

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