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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 11 months 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 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
Rich text editor margin (PB 9)
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Jonatan Lozano replied 6 days ago
Good afternoon,
I have a rich text editor called rte_document and I want to paste some external text. When I paste it, it doesn't respect the leading margins...
Is there a solution to solve this problem in Powerbuilder 9.0?
Now, I do rte.Paste()
...
migration of 64bit in powerbuilder
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- kusuma latha replied 6 days ago
Hi Team,
During the migration of the PowerBuilder application from 32-bit to 64-bit, I updated most of the Long variables to LongPtr. While the execution works for some parts of the application, such as adding elements to the XML file, the applicati...
Hi
We have a button under which we have a menu under which we have another menu as shown in the following structure
largebutton
menu
item tag = "mnu1"/
item tag = "mnu2"
item tag = "submnu1/
item tag = "submnu1/
it...
Winsock %S1 error STD Framework
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Good day, everyone. I am using the STD Framework by Chris Pollach. Every time I log into the application, and as soon as the form controller opens, this error appears.
At first, I suspected it was a network-related issue, so I disabled my Wind...
Can my Appeon PB 22 license by used on two computers? Both ONLY by me?
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 week ago
I do DEV on my laptop but QA on a Enterprise Cloud PC which I connect to from my laptop. We may be migrating all of the users of this app to the Cloud PCs'At any rate, I'm probably going to have a tough sell to the company to purchase a second licens...
Performance issue when PB2022 application is started on a VM
- Issue
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
I'm using PB2022 R3. The application I built works smoothly with one strange exception:
When I click on a datawindow in a sheet within a mdi frame, the application hangs for 20 seconds up to two minutes showing "not responding". After this period th...
WebBrowser prevent header and footer with PrintAsPDF?
- How-to
- Last updated 2 years ago
- Dan Cooperstock replied 1 week ago
We want to use the WebBrowser control in PB2021 to load HTML files and save them as PDF. We have working code, but it is adding a header and footer to the page. We need to not have those!
Is there a way to force that? Maybe some JavaScript?
I have ...
Send mails with Oauth2 authentication
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 week ago
Hi,
Starting in September, Office 365 will no longer use simple authentication for sending emails. It will use OAuth2 instead. Is there a way to do this in PB2019?
Thanks
Hello Team,
We are currently using PowerBuilder 2022 (Version 1878). In our application, we have a DataWindow column with the tag field set in the following format:TooltipTooltip description/Tooltip. During runtime, the tooltip description was getti...
Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding UTF-8 characters.
For context, I'm working on a PowerBuilder application which uses Chilkat to get mails from an adress to import attached files into our database.
However, we problems when we get mails ...
PFC question that came up with PB 22 conversion from PB 10
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 week ago
Hello, I'm in the early days of converting a medium size Powerbuilder 10 app (runs on SQL Server 19) to PB 22 R3.
This is a legacy app that is mission critical to our business. the app was developed and first used by the company around 1999. I'm sur...
Connecting to Exchange Server using EWS
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Rick Hiebert replied 1 week ago
This is the code Copilot generated for me:
// Declare variablesOLEObject oleMailServiceinteger li_rc
// Create OLEObject for EWSoleMailService = CREATE OLEObjectli_rc = oleMailService.ConnectToNewObject("MSExchangeWebServices.ExchangeService")
// ...
Native PDF Subreports
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hello Powerbuilders,
I build a report with several subreports which runs well all the time. This report has several pages for each customer.
Since last Version R3 3397 I have some scary things happen generating and printing a report:
When I retrie...
Can I opt out from upgrading to PB 25? PB 10 --> PB 22 is not going well...
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace replied 1 week ago
I'm just starting a rather later migration of PB 10 -- PB 22 r3, so far the code runs fine but performance is terrible. the app uses impbedded data windows, which my be the source of the issus.
The PB 10 app is fairly quick. the pb 22 migration is...
Error on dynamic data window with big amount of data
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi all,
On legacy application, I need to create datawindow dynamicly, based on various data, when the data reach specific number of records, the creation of the dynamic data window fail.
In other words, While tring create dynamic data window this w...
Issue with Debugging Across Multiple Functions, UserObjects, Parent Objects.
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Dear Experts
When debugging, I set a breakpoint, and when the code is executed, the cursor correctly stops at the breakpoint. Debugging works fine as long as the entire process occurs within a single page. However, if the code references other funct...
Force SaveAs(Text!) to always use dots for decimals
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- David Peace replied 1 week ago
Hello,
The SaveAs method of a DataWindow or DataStore, when called with SaveAsType Text!, saves decimals using the decimal separator currently set in the Windows regional settings. What would be a good way to ensure that a dot is always used, regard...
In the new version 2025 do you see the location of the title branch-a somewhere on the PB bar? If not, it would be great if it was immediately visible :-)
PDFDocument returns -49 when importing some PDFs, and is fine for others
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 1 week ago
Hi All,
I'm using the PDFDocument object to save a client invoice datawindow as a PDF, and then append supporting documentation to that PDF. The supporting documentation is stored in various records in the same database.
It worked in testing, but i...
Datawindow.Modify returns error for Print Preview
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi There to the PowerBuilder Guru's -
So, I have a window with a DataWindow in it that is run for all the Reports in the application that I work on. The Datawindow (called dw_report) is a composite DW and has a report DW embedded (dw_rpt) that looks...
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