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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 change window menu name?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  David Sternberg replied 5 years ago
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parent.title    = is_title_initial + ' ' + is_id After changing the window title in script appending an id, the window title under the window menu option doesn't change immediately.  It appears to change once another window is opened but that is a b...
David Sternberg David Sternberg
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PDF editing / search
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Julián Tagarro replied 5 years ago
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Good morning to all, I need to do some proccessing (find some text and extract the selected page into a sigle PDF) on a very large PDF file. I read some time ago in this gruop about some tool that I can integrate with PowerBuilder.  Does anybody kn...
Julián Tagarro Julián Tagarro
  1. PowerBuilder
HTTPClient-Object (Set Proxyserver?)
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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Hello, how can i set the Proxy-Server in the new PB-httpclient-Object (like winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1 obj.setproxy(...) )? thank you in advance
Richard Ruhland Richard Ruhland
  1. PowerBuilder
Limit to how many arguments to pass to nested DW?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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PB 12.1 build 6639 - Win7 I have a legacy datawindow that takes 4 arguments (number, string, string, string) which passes all 4 arguments to a nested datawindow. That works fine. But if I add a 5th argument (string) to each, then when I run PB, the ...
Scott Gorke Scott Gorke
  1. PowerBuilder
Having multiple PB applications in a single git repository
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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We are moving from PVCS to Git and have two applications we would like to put into one repository.The structure would look like this:C:\ACME CORP (Main folder) C:\ACME CORP\PBAPP1 C:\ACME CORP\PBAPP2 C:\ACME CORP\SHARED (this sub-folder contains ....
Steven Turner Steven Turner
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Right click menu
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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Hi, I am in process of learning PB and i am stuck at finding the right click menu options. On the right click of the mouse, i get a bunch of options and i choose the one to run a report. I want to figure out which location this template is picked f...
Nick R Nick R
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Sybase SQL ASE 16 - SQL Timeout
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  David Vasconcelos replied 5 years ago
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We are experiencing timeout issues.  When the DBA does a restore of a database which is on the same server as the one we are using we have noticed during that process datawindows/sql have been timing out.  When a restore occurs the process does consu...
David Vasconcelos David Vasconcelos
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Can we integrate PowerBuilder application with Single Sign On (SSO)
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Christophe Dufourmantelle replied 5 years ago
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Hi All,   We have windows application developed in Power Builder 11.5 and recently, we migrated to Power Builder 2017. New migrated application works good. Now, we want to integrate it with Single Sign On, to achieve our company password policy goa...
Minogue Susan Minogue Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder 2019 C# and MySQL
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hi,  I have just started to have a look at the C# functionality of PB 2019. Does it support MySQL? I cannot generate models for any of my tables. I have created a very simple datawindow on a table without indexes or foreign keys or anything complica...
Gerry Whitmarsh Gerry Whitmarsh
  1. PowerBuilder
Converting database interaction to Rest
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kevin Ridley replied 5 years ago
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Hi, after watching the webinar i have been thinkinhg about how  one could use rest for database interaction as first step to make an application 3 tier. Doing that i have not found a solution on how to do that with embedded sql and datawindow /data...
Ferdinand Fischer Ferdinand Fischer
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Library Manager - Fatal Disk Error
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
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A client of mine, when running an application developed with PowerBuilder and currently compiled with PowerBuilder 2017, is getting an error when going into a particular window.  The error message that pops up is titled "Library Manager" and the mess...
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Jon Stoller Jon Stoller
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PB2019 unable to connect PVCS 8.6.1
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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  we have been using PVCS for decades with PB10, and 12. Recently I have upgraded to PB2019 (Universal edition) on Windows 10 machine. I am trying to connect to my existing source control, It connects fine and then a few seconds later it disconnects...
shoaib siddiqui shoaib siddiqui
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Is it possible to create .net datastore from dwsyntax?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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Hello,  I am evaluating a new .net datatore features with a SnapObjects now. In our projects we have a lot of datawindows stored not in PBL but in database tables. So I don`t see a way to create .net datastore not from PBL but from dwsyntax like it...
serg kuznetsov serg kuznetsov
  1. SnapObjects
What changes in a migration to PB 2019 ?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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I am in the process of migrating several PB applications from PB 12.5 to PB 2019. We are using PowerVCS for source control. Does the migration fundamentally change the underlying objects, such that the repository needs updating? If so, I need to figu...
Lynn A Haynes Lynn A Haynes
  1. PowerBuilder
Glitch with Transparent PNG
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  zulmach . replied 5 years ago
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one picture control on top of everything else to simulate shading. with resizing it to window's width and height. but everytime i maximized or resize the window to almost full screen. it shows the glitch. is it a bug? using PowerBuilder 12.6  
  1.  Picture
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zulmach . zulmach .
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Issue with ws_objects not containing all objects (Git)
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Steven Turner replied 5 years ago
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We are migrating an application from PVCS to Git and have encountered an issue with creating the local repository. Our  directory structure (which I believe to be the issue) is a main folder with 3 sub-folders (PFC, SMT, SHARED).The application objec...
Steven Turner Steven Turner
  1. PowerBuilder
Is possible to extend the Trial period for Power Server Group Edition
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
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My original PowerServer WorkGroup Licensed server crash a bout a month a go. I did download a trial and installed in a temp server (box) to have my users working ok. I have being working to put my Production server on line but for different reason is...
Clarence Chamorro Clarence Chamorro
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Checkin with TFS Source Control
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Gene Kanten replied 5 years ago
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I set up TFS for source control, following instructions here: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/195-using-powerbuilder-2017-with-tfs-source-control and it seems to work well as far as adding eve...
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Van Sederburg Van Sederburg
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UNC path vs. mapped drive
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hi.   Scenario: One of our customers has our applications (PB 2017 R3) in a folder on a fileserver. All shortcuts on the users computers are like this: \\Fileserver\Maritech\App\app.exe Most of our other customers instead maps this share \\Files...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Bjarne Anker Bjarne Anker
  1. PowerBuilder
Bad runtime function reference at line xx in clicked event of object cb_xx of w_xx
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, I am using PB 12.6. I have a application which uses soap connection. When I run the application from source code, it works fine. But when I do a 64 bit build and run it from application exe, I get a error "Bad runtime function reference at line ...
  1.  64-bit
  2.  PowerBuilder
Prajwal Rajanna Prajwal Rajanna
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