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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
6 replies
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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
Dynamically change datawindow syntax for nested report
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  mike S replied 8 months ago
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Is it possible to dynamically change the datawindow syntax for a nested report in the group header datawindow?  I have a header and footer on a nested report.  I want to be able to assign the datawindow syntax to the nested report at runtime.  I am ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerServer
Kristin Sisk Kristin Sisk
  1. PowerBuilder
Getting an Outlook Throwable Error during Send
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Christopher Craft replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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PB 2022 1900 We recently changed our Emailing from MAPI to use Outlook OLE instead.  This has been working great but every so often we get a customer calling in reporting a throwable error during the send operation ("Error accessing external object ...
Christopher Craft Christopher Craft
  1. PowerBuilder
WebView Runtime warning popup message
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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Is there anyway to suppress the "WebView runtime not installed" message when opening a window that has the WebBrowser control on it and the WebView2 Runtime does not exist?  We are currently transitioning from using old OLE controls for URL function...
  1.  OLE
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  WebBrowser
Tim Ford Tim Ford
  1. PowerBuilder
Tabpage colors, global look UI architecture
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
3 replies
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PB 17 Q1: How can I change the tabpage tab color? The part where the writing is? I thought it would be TabBackcolor but that doesn't work.   Q2: Is there a 3rd party UI tool that would globally change colors of objects at runtime? For example, ...
Robert Sawyer Robert Sawyer
  1. PowerBuilder
Power Client - Cloud App Launcher - PB 2022 with multiple INI file configuration
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Sathishkumar S replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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Hi All, I am creating a Power Client - Cloud App Launcher - in PB 2022 R3,how to keep the same build which will be deployed with different INI file configurations in the production. Currently I am adding the INI file in External file list, each tim...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerClient
Sathishkumar S Sathishkumar S
  1. PowerBuilder
Pass retrieval argument to dddw
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  mathews rutto replied 8 months ago
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Hi, Please help how to pass retrieval argument to a dddw datawindow? with kind regards.
mathews rutto mathews rutto
  1. PowerBuilder
Capturing multiple instances in Ribbonbar history button
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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I have recently added a ribbonbar to one of our Powerbuilder applications as part of our modernization efforts.  One thing I really like is that the history of opened windows can still be captured and the customer can move between the open windows. ...
Miller Rhodes Miller Rhodes
  1. PowerBuilder
Inquiry on how to resolve banner link error in Work Space
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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Hello?Thanks to your help, our sea refrigerator was able to create both 32-bit and 64-bit Android APK files well, so it was successfully registered in One Store. Thank you again. And I am planning to create Work Space with version 2703 and upload it...
  1.  Appeon Workspace
Shin Jungi Shin Jungi
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
I am trying to log into Info maker and it is telling me that I am logged in already?
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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I am trying to log into Info maker and it is telling me that I am logged in already.     How do I find where I am logged in so I can log out of that session.?Thanks sam Ellis YCCC
Samuel Ellis Samuel Ellis
  1. InfoMaker
SMTP Client error message
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  1. Last updated 10 months ago
  2.  Zhang JX replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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Hi    I am using the new smtpclient to send email from my PB2022R3 application. It worked fine but sometimes or some users keeps getting error code 13 and 14 and we are not sure what the error message means. 13- -- Failed to send network data. 14 ...
Malek Taha Malek Taha
  1. PowerBuilder
Power Builder compiler error
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 8 months ago
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Dear all, On the Compilation of PB 2022 R2, using the stand alone compiler (NON IDE), I'm getting and error: (mCompiler exited with an error code: -1073741819 Follow by: ##[error] PB Build failed, xxx.exe is not created The last accessed object ...
Amit De Picciotto Amit De Picciotto
  1. PowerBuilder
Save the web page from the web browser control to a PNG or TIFF file
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 8 months ago
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Do we have possible steps to save the web page (which is loaded in the web browser control) to a PNG or TIFF file in Appeon PB2019 R3 version?
Kiran Kumar Bodagala Kiran Kumar Bodagala
  1. PowerBuilder
PBX2PBD generate wrong build Version
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Stephan Daschek replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, I've installed PowerBuilder 2022 R2 build 1892 with all features. I had already installed PowerBuilder 2022 build 1878 before. When i convert an pbx2pbd with C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\PowerBuilder 22.0\IDE\pbx2pbd220.exe, the pbd have the w...
Stephan Daschek Stephan Daschek
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2022 R2 version
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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All, I have an executable built using the PowerBuilder 2022 R2 version. When I run this executable on a user's machine, it doesn't start up immediately; it appears as though nothing is running. After leaving the machine idle for some time (say 30 mi...
Brindha Duraisingh Brindha Duraisingh
  1. PowerBuilder
Disable mouse and Keyborad
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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Hi. Can we disable mouse clicks and keyboard clicks in powerbuilder, if yes, How? Want to achieve below scenario: DIABLE MOUSE AND KEYBOARD CLICKS //DO SOME TASK ENABLE IT AGAIN
Dhruv Jain Dhruv Jain
  1. PowerBuilder
Recovering a deleted object
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 8 months ago
3 replies
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My PowerBuilder 2019 workspace is using git as source control system. I just deleted a datawindow object inside a pbl with right click on object -> delete. If I open a cmd on the folder I can see the object is deleted, but the delete is not commite...
  1.  Git
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Simon Santoro Simon Santoro
  1. PowerBuilder
WebBrowser Control setFocus?
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Vinicius Geraldino replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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PB Version 2021 build 1509 Hello.. I have a question, I have a screen (window + webbrowser control fullscreen). When I open the window, I load an HTML page (it could be google.com), but it doesn't have focus (specifically in an input field) If I ...
  1.  WebBrowser
Vinicius Geraldino Vinicius Geraldino
  1. PowerBuilder
No "Invalid DW row/column specified" error for row 0
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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Hello, I started noticing quite some time ago (maybe in PB 12.5, maybe earlier) that PB stopped throwing an error when GetItemX datawindow method is called with row 0. Now, when it happened again in PB2019 R3, I decided to isolate the issue. I creat...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerScript (PS)
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder
Predefined error_message pfc_dwdberror
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  Benjamin Gaesslein replied 8 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi, After installed PB Runtime 22.2.0.3356, i have change the PB application.xml file to point "C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 22.2.0.3356" then launch our application.exe then getting below error,
sachidhanantham ramalingam sachidhanantham ramalingam
  1. PowerBuilder
Data line breaks and importstring datawindow method
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  1. Last updated 8 months ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 8 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, all. I let users enter text data in multiline edit control, allowing them to include line breaks. Then, I need to import this data in a DW with the importstring method (necessarily). How do I have PB not interpet the line breaks in the data as r...
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerBuilder

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