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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks 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 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) 
            We've recently moved from VSS to TFS/Git for our source control.  
Everything is working great for development - we've opted to use Atlassian's SourceTree to help visually manage branches and workflow (via Git-Flow).  The ability to use feature bran...
                    
            we have a app that initially had 25 users and now it is used for more than fifty users and later started to receive error messages , we had to restart the iis and the server .I attach messages of error and a log .I expect your rescommendations , gree...
            Hi.
 
We have a small application (PB2017 R3) which reads and interprets small text files, adds rows to 3-4 datastores and the commits to 4 tables in the database. Sometimes it can be as much as 1500 rows, but for the most between 700 and 1000.
Th...
                    
            How to obtain the value of a retrieval argument?
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- Last updated 6 years ago
- Michael Kramer replied 6 years ago
I need to get the value of a retrieval argument by which the datawindow has been retrieved. I use this method:
dw_emp_by_dept.Describe("Evaluate('dept_id', 1)")
But this method doesn't work if the DW has no rows. That makes sense because it Evaluat...
            Change screen resolution using PB2017
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- Last updated 6 years ago
- Shenn Sellers replied 6 years ago
Hello
I'm looking for some code that would allow me to change the screen resolution using PB2017.
I'd like to be to toggle back and forth if possible.
Thank You
Tom
 
 
                    
            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...
            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...
            HTTPClient-Object (Set Proxyserver?)
- How-to
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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
            Limit to how many arguments to pass to nested DW?
- Advice
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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 ...
            Having multiple PB applications in a single git repository
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- How-to
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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 ....
            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...
            Sybase SQL ASE 16 - SQL Timeout
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 years ago
- David Vasconcelos replied 6 years ago
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...
            Can we integrate PowerBuilder application with Single Sign On (SSO)
- Advice
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Christophe Dufourmantelle replied 6 years ago
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...
            Powerbuilder 2019 C# and MySQL
- Advice
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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...
            Converting database interaction to Rest
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- Last updated 6 years ago
- Kevin Ridley replied 6 years ago
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...
            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...
                    
            PB2019 unable to connect PVCS 8.6.1
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- Issue
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
 
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...
            Is it possible to create .net datastore from dwsyntax?
- How-to
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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...
            What changes in a migration to PB 2019 ?
- Misc
- Last updated 6 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 years ago
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...
            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
 
                    
            
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