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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 11 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
Rich text editor margin (PB 9)
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Jonatan Lozano replied 1 week ago
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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() ...
Jonatan Lozano Jonatan Lozano
  1. Elevate Discussion
migration of 64bit in powerbuilder
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  kusuma latha replied 1 week ago
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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...
kusuma latha kusuma latha
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RibbonBarMenuItems
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 week ago
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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...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  RibbonBar
Deepti Nimmagadda Deepti Nimmagadda
  1. PowerBuilder
Winsock %S1 error STD Framework
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
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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...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
John Michael Tejano John Michael Tejano
  1. PowerBuilder
Performance issue when PB2022 application is started on a VM
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
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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...
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Guido Hinrichs Guido Hinrichs
  1. PowerBuilder
WebBrowser prevent header and footer with PrintAsPDF?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Dan Cooperstock replied 1 week ago
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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 ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  WebBrowser
Daniel Vivier Daniel Vivier
  1. PowerBuilder
Send mails with Oauth2 authentication
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 week ago
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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
Mariano Lago Mariano Lago
  1. PowerBuilder
Tooltip not getting displayed after switching to PB2022 64 bit for a datawindow column
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 week ago
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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...
  1.  DataWindow
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Dhanya K Dhanya K
  1. PowerBuilder
Handling UTF-8 special characters from Apple devices
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
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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 ...
Lukas Kluge Lukas Kluge
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Connecting to Exchange Server using EWS
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Rick Hiebert replied 2 weeks ago
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This is the code Copilot generated for me: // Declare variablesOLEObject oleMailServiceinteger li_rc // Create OLEObject for EWSoleMailService = CREATE OLEObjectli_rc = oleMailService.ConnectToNewObject("MSExchangeWebServices.ExchangeService") // ...
Rick Hiebert Rick Hiebert
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Native PDF Subreports
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  1. Last updated 1 month ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
  1.  NativePDF
Stephan Schröpel Stephan Schröpel
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Error on dynamic data window with big amount of data
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  1. Last updated 2 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
  1.  DataWindow
Amit De Picciotto Amit De Picciotto
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with Debugging Across Multiple Functions, UserObjects, Parent Objects.
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
Deva Shanmuga Deva Shanmuga
  1. PowerBuilder
Force SaveAs(Text!) to always use dots for decimals
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  David Peace replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder
PB25 title of the GIT branch
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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 :-)
Rafał Blecharz Rafał Blecharz
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PDFDocument returns -49 when importing some PDFs, and is fine for others
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
  1.  PDF
Monica Petersen Monica Petersen
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow.Modify returns error for Print Preview
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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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...
Krishna Mohan Gullap Krishna Mohan Gullap
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PB 2019 R3 IDE won't open
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Tillman replied 2 weeks ago
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Hello, All of a sudden my PB 2019 IDE stopped opening. I click the icon in the Windows menu, the splash window opens, and then PB's icon just sits in the task bar. Nothing happens when I click it, and when I hover the mouse pointer over it, an empty...
  1.  IDE
  2.  PowerBuilder
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder
NativePDF not handling Newspaper Columns correctly
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  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
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PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1892 I have a fairly complex report with 31 nested reports and a similar number of computed fields. The report has these settings: Newspaper Columns = 2 Export = Distill! Paper Orientation = Landscape! The report is used...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
Looking for the runtime path when using built in Kestrel locally.
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
2 replies
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Hi! I'm running PB 2022 R3 build 3397. My question is about the environment when running a local Kestrel server in development. I have deployed files that Kestrel is not finding. Can anyone point me to the runtime path when using this? Thanks!
John Raghanti John Raghanti
  1. PowerServer

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