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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
6 replies
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15 votes
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
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
5341 views
12 votes
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Dropdownlistbox items background - theme change
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
1 reply
449 views
0 votes
Hi I am currently using Powerbuilder 2022 R2 where we are adding themes to our application.  We want to add a color to the hover state of a dropdownlistbox. The current color is as shown below.  We want to change the blue in the item list to #c4...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  Theme
Deepti Nimmagadda Deepti Nimmagadda
  1. PowerBuilder
Is there way to set a different color of the selected row for active and inactive datawindow?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi I'd like set different colors of selected row for active and inactive datawindow. Ie. I have 2 grid DW in the window. First is active  - have focus and I preffer blue color of a selected's row. Second is inactive and I preffer here gray color ...
Břetislav Černík Břetislav Černík
  1. PowerBuilder
AppeonMobile Beta Has Expired. Any work around this issue?
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 6 months ago
  2.  Benjamin Daniels replied 3 months ago
3 replies
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Did something change with TestFlight and AWS for iOs with PowerServer 2020? When I installed TestFlight and them I go to the link to start testing AWS for iOs now I get a message "AppeonMobile Beta Has Expired". and the OK option. Any work around t...
  1.  PowerServer Mobile
Clarence Chamorro Clarence Chamorro
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Windows classic style with external manifest
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Tim Rehder replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi, we use several ActiveX components in our application that we have to register during installation. To simplify this process, we are currently looking into Side by Side manifests to access the ActiveX components without the need for registration...
Tim Rehder Tim Rehder
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get, change, then reset the default printer
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi all, In my application, I have a user event for printing to a label printer, triggered from a right mouse menu option. I'm wondering how to get and save the current default printer, call PrintSetup() to allow the user to select the label printer...
  1.  PFC
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Self signed certificate in certificate chain
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Pushparaj V replied 3 months ago
2 replies
577 views
0 votes
Hi    We are trying to add OAuth Authentication in our Application, in my machine where the initial code was developed the authentication works fine, however when I share the code/Exe with team members in their machine it is not working, the first ...
Pushparaj V Pushparaj V
  1. PowerBuilder
Is DataLoad compatible with PowerServer 2020 and PB 2019 R3 ?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
0 replies
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0 votes
Hello Appeon community.    Does anyone of you have experience with the use of DataLoad with PowerServer 2020 and PB 2019 R3? And if yes can you please share us more information? Thanks in advance!
Carmina GARCIA ALONSO Carmina GARCIA ALONSO
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
How to give the height to options window in dropdown?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 3 months ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi Team,    How to fix or give the height to the options windows in dropdown, please refer below image. we are using the Style Type of the dropdown is "DropDownListBox" and we gave the static values in the code table.  
santosh kumar balla santosh kumar balla
  1. PowerBuilder
Certificate for direct migration from PB 12.5 to PB 2022
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi everyone, Just wanted to ask if there is any certification or documentation confirming that it's okay to migrate directly from PB 12.5 to PB 2022. Thank you.
  1.  Migration
  2.  PB Classic
  3.  PowerBuilder
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Avory Rose Pastoral Avory Rose Pastoral
  1. PowerBuilder
Drag and Drop emails from Outlook Web version
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi All,  So far, we have been using a third-party DLL called dddll.dll to drop emails from outlook application to our PowerBuilder application. But it is not working for newer version of Outlook that is we based. Is there a way we can achieve this f...
Ameer Hamza Ameer Hamza
  1. PowerBuilder
RichText field not displaying all information
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Currently having an issue where my RichText field is being cut off and only displays a portion of the field when running the report. The RichText displays correctly in the powerbuilder datawindow in the application however when the report has this is...
Neil Prichard Neil Prichard
  1. InfoMaker
datawindow computed fields
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi, Using PB2019 SQLAnywhere 16 I want to create a computed field on a grid datawindow. I am trying to use isnull() so on the computed field i wrote isnull(amount) I get the following error  SQLSTATE = 37000 [Sybase][ODBC Driver][SQL Anywhere]W...
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
Display WEBP + AVIF Images On Powerbuilder
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Is there a way to display WEBP and AVIF images from a URL in powerbuilder?
  1.  PowerBuilder
Rishi Panthee Rishi Panthee
  1. PowerBuilder
Trying to receive data via serial port
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Anyone had any luck communicating with serial port devices in PB2022?  I asked a similar question a while back, and Chris offered a solution.  I tried implementing that code in my pop-up window, command button cb_read: integer li_FileNum, li_rc str...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Sign a xml file with a certificate (a1, a3...)
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Eduardo Barbeito replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi All! How sign a xml file with a certificate x.509? Here we use many many xml files to exchange information between companies and we need sign with certificate x.509 (A1, A3...) these files to guarantee the security... Is there a resource in PB ...
  1.  Certificate
  2.  Security
  3.  XML
Eduardo Adriano Eduardo Adriano
  1. PowerBuilder
Tosca Application unable to connect PowerBuilder desktop based application
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
We have a PowerBuilder desktop based application build in PB 2017 R3 and we are trying to automate this application using TOSCA version 2023.2.1 X64 but we are facing errors when we try to scan the application and please find the error details below ...
  1.  Automated Testing
  2.  Automation
  3.  PowerBuilder
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
SANTHOSH S SANTHOSH S
  1. PowerBuilder
Get document path
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  mike S replied 3 months ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello everyone, do you know how I can get the path of the Windows user's documents directory, regardless of the language configured in the Operating System (Window)?   Thanks   Luis
Luis Pesaressi Luis Pesaressi
  1. PowerBuilder
Creating a PDF document using multiple ImportDatawindow() calls
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 3 months ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hi, We are trying to create a PDF document using the PDFDocument object and multiple ImportDatawindow() calls, but page breaks are inserted between each datawindow. Is there a way to delete these page breaks in the PDFDocument or do we have to use ...
  1.  NativePDF
  2.  PDF
  3.  PowerBuilder
Luc Railhac Luc Railhac
  1. PowerBuilder
SMTP with ReplyTo option
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 3 months ago
1 reply
435 views
0 votes
So my company has been working with a call center company and they offered their email capabilities to us.  My company wants to use them and we can send Emails via SMTP to their system so their system can do enhancements/formatting and what not. The...
  1.  SMTPClient
John Valentin John Valentin
  1. PowerBuilder
Runtime change requirements with new builds ?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 3 months ago
  2.  Xavier Catteau replied 3 months ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello, We currently have the PB runtime 2022R3 build 3356 deployed in our production environment. I'm glad to see that PB 2022R3 build 3391 addresses the issue of the use of .NET v6 and now uses .NET v8 ! My question is simple then : do I have to ...
  1.  PowerBuilder Runtime
Xavier Catteau Xavier Catteau
  1. PowerBuilder

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