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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 7 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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
Window width and height don't match between painter and script
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 months ago
3 replies
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I'm observing a problem where if I create a window with a given width and height (in this case, 2002 x 1500), and then put a messagebox in the window's Open event to display those values, they don't match (I get 2039 x 1604). Is it adding in PBUs fo...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  Window
Dan Cooperstock Dan Cooperstock
  1. PowerBuilder
RunWebAPI return error, Exitcode: 0
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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We have trouble to run PowerServer 2022 application. No Build and deploy project error shows but when we run the project it is showing RunWebAPI return error, Exitcode: 0, error id:0 When run from the C# solution, we have the PowerServer starting fa...
Jon Tzeng Jon Tzeng
  1. PowerServer
Deleting objects when using IDE GIT
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 months ago
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One of my customers used one of my utilities to delete objects from a library. In the PB IDE, the GIT interface doesn't see any deletes needing to be committed. With an SCC API based source control system, my utility performs a SccRemove. For GIT, i...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerserver Session Createtime and Lastvisttime are 1 hour out for UK summer time
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 4 months ago
1 reply
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Hi Guys I've just notice that Powerserver is returning session info that is 1 hour out. It looks like it's recording date times in UTC rather than local time, is that correct? If so is there a way to configure Powerserver to log using Local time on ...
  1.  PowerServer
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerServer
nherit from another windows, the special character `
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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  Anyone know when i inherit from another windows, the special character `   edit source coding below type cb_print from w_parent_report_sheet`cb_print within w_test_commoninteger x = 2446integer y = 156integer width = 352integer height = 104inte...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Raymond Cheng Raymond Cheng
  1. PowerBuilder
SilentInstall.bat fails with "Error: code=-2147213312"
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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I am building our PowerBuilder application in a Docker container.  To create the Docker image, we run the PowerBuilder "SilentInstall.bat" file first with opt-PBU and then a second time with opt=PBR.  This works with the previous version, R3 3289.  I...
Phil Gilmore Phil Gilmore
  1. PowerBuilder
Customize paper size at datawindow object properties
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Ong Chin Keat replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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hi all,   I need to set specific paper size 12.50cm x 18.95cm at datawindow object. But I can't find any customization available. Any alternative way to do so ?     regards, Dev Ong
Ong Chin Keat Ong Chin Keat
  1. PowerBuilder
The _indexes.idx is being modified in the deployed version
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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Hi all,  PB 2022R2 build 2828 compiled with PowerClient.  Sometimes, on client machines, we encounter a strange error message like "Unresolvable external n_winsrv when linking reference at line 15 in open event...". This indicates that the applica...
Mihai Apostol Mihai Apostol
  1. PowerBuilder
PB r3 build 3356 only run .net freamework 4.5 dll with .net 6.0 (end of life)
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
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Hi we have an C# DLL in .net framework 4.8 that we have imported via .net DLL importer. We used build PB 2022 1900 and we coud call the dll When we use PB r3 build 3356 we can't load the assembly.   Only if we install windowdesktop runtime 6.0 it...
Torgeir Lund Torgeir Lund
  1. PowerBuilder
The data in datawindow is not retrieved/displayed the label & column value for specific field and gets autoresolved?
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, I am using Powerbuilder 2019 and SQL Server to retrieve the data. Issue: There is a datawindow and it gets rows retrieved from stored procedure. But the label the data both are blank for specific screens in some terminals of customer sites onl...
  1.  Computed Field
  2.  DataWindow
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  PowerBuilder Runtime
Keerthana G Keerthana G
  1. PowerBuilder
PDFLib wmf not looking nice
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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Hi we are creating charts in WMF format, when using a virtuel PDF printer the charts looks great, but when using PDF Lib (PDFNative) it looks really bad quality. Why is this the PDFNative not creating good quality of the images? Se attahced files. ...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PDF
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  DataStore
Torgeir Lund Torgeir Lund
  1. PowerBuilder
how to stop the calculations that a datawindow constantly does on any user action
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 months ago
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I have a report in a data window that calls functions within the application to make calculations when retrieving the report, however each action that a user performs on it the calculation is performed again, weighing the actions performed. I want to...
Elvis Cardenas Elvis Cardenas
  1. PowerBuilder
URL not loading in citrix application through Navigate command
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 months ago
1 reply
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Hi Team, Hope you are doing well. Need your help for a query regarding Microsoft web browser OLE object, used for browsing a URL. When accessing a URL using Navigate command through PB IDE, I am able to launch URL. But same URL(in application) wh...
Ganpati More Ganpati More
  1. PowerBuilder
Instalar app cloud en un server (IIS) desde el ejecutable
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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Buenos días,  hice la migración de una aplicación a cloud, inicialmente hice la prueba en el IIS local y todo esta perfecto  Ahora mi consulta es porque en lugar de correrla directamente en la maquina de desarrollo quise llevarla a otro servidor con...
Guillermo Tamburo Guillermo Tamburo
  1. PowerServer
Crosstab Datasource access
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 months ago
7 replies
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I am having an issue where I cannot seem to access the datasource of my crosstab after i initially create the crosstab. This appears to be a new issue unless i am missing some combination of settings as i was able to re-enter the data source after sa...
Neil Prichard Neil Prichard
  1. InfoMaker
Pdf to Excel
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 4 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, does anyone out there know how to convert a pdf to excel or csv / text programmatically, or using an command line converter. I am using the latest verison of PB on windows 10 I have a requirement to be able to check a pdf document listing tran...
  1.  Excel
  2.  PDF
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
Issue with the webrowser.navigate function
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 months ago
3 replies
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Hello, I am using Powerbuilder 2022R3 - 3356 On my personal development box, the command li_status = wb_navigator.Navigate("www.google.ca") returns 1 (valid url) li_status = wb_navigator.Navigate("something") returns -1 (it's not a valid url) ...
Daniel Seguin Daniel Seguin
  1. PowerBuilder
ErorCode: 5; Result 5
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 4 months ago
3 replies
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Buenos dias, estoy desplegando una aplicacion con el Id PB2022R3 (estamos mgrando desde 2019) en un servidor IIS , la aplicacion ya esta desplegada, pero en algun momento al utilizar la funcion de copiar un pdf (tenemos una funcion de conversion a bl...
Walther Rodirguez Walther Rodirguez
  1. PowerServer
Exception while reading from stream
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  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 months ago
1 reply
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Hi Team, I encountered this pop up window when retrieving the datawindow. I will appreciate your help.   with kind regards.
mathews rutto mathews rutto
  1. PowerBuilder
How application can do code signing certificate for Powerbuilder 2017 or 2022 afterwards
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 months ago
1 reply
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Dear Supporter:          We got a security question to ask your advice,  early this week, our security team has carried out a Penetration test on our application, in which they said that our application need a code signing certificate, I remembered...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Song Tom Song Tom
  1. PowerBuilder

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