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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
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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
PB2019 Standalone license be used at work & home?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Because of the mandated work from home..  I access my work desktop w/ a remote session.  Compared to other software..  PB2019 has extremely slow refresh/response time.  I've set the remote session screen resolution down and unchecked other functional...
Kenneth Davis Kenneth Davis
  1. PowerBuilder
State of New Hampshire Job Opening for PowerBuilder coder
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Yakov Werde replied 4 years ago
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The State of New Hampshire, Department of Information Technology has an opening for a PowerBuilder programmer working in an "essential job" in Concord NH. Good pay, great benefits, pension... We need you. Let me know if you are interested.  
Randy Severance Randy Severance
  1. PowerBuilder
FileEncoding() UTF8 file returns ANSI.
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 4 years ago
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Hi,   We need to read text files in linemode with fileopen() and filereadex() We use fileencoding() before fileopen() in order to find out the encoding argument (EncodingANSI!, EncodingUTF8!, ...)   We have an issue with UTF8 files. FileEncodin...
Thierry Del Fiore Thierry Del Fiore
  1. PowerBuilder
SnapDevelop class library for Powerbuilder 2019
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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If I create a SnapDevelop Class Library Project, can I use that dll library in PowerBuilder 2019 (or does it have to be the old style dll)?  
Richard Torcasio Richard Torcasio
  1. SnapDevelop
GarbageCollectSetTimeLimit ( 0 ) - Purpose?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
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Hi All, I discovered this code snippet in old code someone else wrote ages ago. GarbageCollectSetTimeLimit( 0 ) GarbageCollect( ) Why set minimum time limit to zero?Is there a behind-the-scenes effect I cannot read from F1-Help? Did it have spec...
Michael Kramer Michael Kramer
  1. PowerBuilder
PBVM190.dll is not designed to run on Windows
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Kenneth Davis replied 4 years ago
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Installed PB 2019 on a Windows 10 machine. Migrated my apps from 12.6.  Compiled in 32 bit. Runs fine on that Windows 10 machine.  Running from Windows 7 complained of missing DLLs.  Got all the dlls listed in Help "runtime files" as being Core runti...
Jay Hastings Jay Hastings
  1. PowerBuilder
getting 02005 error during deploying to remote webserver
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi there i'm having an issue trying to deploy my app to a remote webserver.everything working fine on my local web server but when i try to deploy to a remote one i'm getting error 02005Ftp working fine since i'm connecting without problems using fil...
Simone Olianti Simone Olianti
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Source Control with TFS (Team Foundation Server)
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hello together, is it possible at all, to use TFS as source control for PowerBuilder 2019.I didn´t find useful instructions at all.First I tried to install the Team Server 2013. This failed due to compatibility problem.So, this is not that bad, i ca...
Robert Schwer Robert Schwer
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder 2019 filemove on windows 2012 server
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
6 replies
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We have recently migrated to PB 2019 from PB 10. We migrated several applications, half a dozen, and one in particular has an issue when trying to use filemove. We are getting -2 "Error writing targetfile". the file does not exist on the target. We a...
Steve DeWitt Steve DeWitt
  1. PowerBuilder
Sound on Android
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hey PowerSphere Can you play a sound on an Android Device (at least it works on IOS) of_play() in the workarounds pbl  eon_mobile_audioex leon_mobile_audioexleon_mobile_audioex = Create eon_mobile_audioex leon_mobile_audioex .of_play( "beep-02.wav...
Georgios Papageorgiou Georgios Papageorgiou
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
How to increase font size of function/event headers within Script Painter?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hello, could not find the place in the PB IDE where font size of functionevent headers within Script editor could be increased. Using latest PB 2019 R2 2328.  
  1.  IDE
  2.  PowerScript IDE
Dionizas Antipenkovas Dionizas Antipenkovas
  1. PowerBuilder
Error Updating PBv12.0 to 12.1 - Error: pbgactool.PB_gac_install
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Update:   06-MAY-2020I realized that what defines a version of PB are the DLLs. Since I already have a copy of PBv12.1, and I want to update the PBv12.0 app I have on my Win10 VM, all I need to do is to copy the \SHARED\PowerBuilder folder from my Wi...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder web Enabling
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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HI, Can somebody help me please. I want to take my applications to the web. This is my first time. Do I just use normal Powerbuilder or must I install something else.   REgards ML
Marie Bisschoff Marie Bisschoff
  1. PowerBuilder
Maximize a window in 2017 R2
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Rajkumar K S replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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Hello I would like to know if it is possible to maximize a window, maximizing the objects that it contains proportionally in the version PB 2017 R2. Thank you.
Diego Buschittari Diego Buschittari
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder2017-GitHub Support
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Ganesan Rajan replied 4 years ago
4 replies
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Hi Experts, I like to know the ways to migrate the Source control from VSS to Github. We are using Powerbuilder 2017 R2. Can you kindly let me know whether Github is supported in PB2017? Is it possible to migrate from VSS to Github? We are going ...
  1.  Git
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Ganesan Rajan Ganesan Rajan
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindows and themes ...
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi everyone, using PB2019 build 2170 how do you keep consistency in datawindows when using themes and custom code for background color ? See this example : how to make that F2 look like F1 ? Thanks for suggestions. Philippe.
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  Theme
Philippe PILAT Philippe PILAT
  1. PowerBuilder
catalog tables could not be created and are not available for use - Conexion ODBC SQLITE
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Buenas Tardes  Al tratar de hacer un perfil de conexion OBDC en power builder , recibo la advertencia " catalog tables could not be created and are not available for use" y luego me sale conexión exitosa. La conexión ODBC es de una base de datos SQ...
  1.  ODBC
  2.  SQLite
Y P Y P
  1. PowerBuilder
What is the best to use IIS or APACHE?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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HI,   What is the best to use IIS or APACHE?   Regards ML
Marie Bisschoff Marie Bisschoff
  1. PowerBuilder
Database account is locked
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Jon Tzeng replied 4 years ago
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We have a PowerBuilder Web application deployed to PowerServer. Data Source setting in AEM is using Dynamic Database Connection: and Pooling is checked. Maximum Connection Pool Size =1, Minimum Connection Pool Size =1. We have a issue that user datab...
Jon Tzeng Jon Tzeng
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Replacement for SelectToStore method in SnapDevelop 2.0
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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The SelectToStore method has been deprecated in SnapDevelop 2.0.  We used this extensively in v1.0.  What is the replacement for this this?  How should our code be modified? We used this to get values from SELECT statements like so: var result = _d...
  1.  SqlExecutor
  2.  SnapDevelop
Thomas Rolseth Thomas Rolseth
  1. SnapDevelop

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