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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
  1. Advice
  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
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
Target API level Problem.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello, good day, when trying to upload an apk to the android store, this marks the following warning: Warnings. Currently, the target API level of your application is 26 and must be at least 28 to ensure that it complies with the latest API that of...
Javier Garcia Javier Garcia
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
API 28 (android 9.0)
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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We are uploading a package to Android and we mark the tool that needs a minimum Android API in 28 (Android 9.0) and we currently have an Android API 26, when we will have a solution to this problem ??? Regards!
Arturo Jasso Arturo Jasso
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
UPDATED - DW object, row-level properties access
  1. Resolved
  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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PB v12.1, build 7055Oracle 12c databaseWindows 7, 64 bit platformA simple issue that I canNOT sem to resolve. I need access to the object properties of my DW at the ROW level, NOT at the COLUMNS level. I need to access the Visible, X, Y, and TabSequ...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
ExtractorObject Question
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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I was looking at the new ExtractorObject in PB 2019. I found a use for it extracting a string from a blob that was GZip encoded by another non-PB program. The problem is that I want to do the same in PB 2017. I looked at the Windows Compression API...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 Runtime DLL library generator.
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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In PowerBuilder 2019, where is the executable to generate the Runtime DLLs that need to be distributed with my app?
Ian Wells Ian Wells
  1. PowerBuilder
Arguments for Diff Viewer (SVN)
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Tom Jiang @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hi Appeon, have you published the arguments for the diff viewer, yet? I can't find them. The only thing I found where screenshots in Bruce Armstrongs tutorial SVN Enhancements in PowerBuilder 2017 R3 ( "https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articl...
  1.  SVN
Ludwin Feiten Ludwin Feiten
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerserver multi-browser plug-in in asking for installing more then desired...
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Good day!   We have Powerserver, and for all users in the client part it works closely fine. But there is a single one that when he connects to the application, it ask him for installing the multi-browser plug-in in  about one of three times he try...
  1.  Plugin
  2.  PowerServer
Juan Pedro Sanz Diez Juan Pedro Sanz Diez
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
stand-alone android mobile apk
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hi all,  I'm playing with PowerBuilder ( Universal edition ) trying to build a stand-alone android mobile apk. No server is needed, nor api, nor url. Consequently no PowerServer is needed to be involved. Just a window with commandbotton with "He...
Yosi Bason Yosi Bason
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
Authenticode signing
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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I need to generate the application exe file with code signing (Authenticode = True). I used the project painter but the generated exe is not signed. I looked into the help file and found the following in "Attaching or embedding manifest file" section...
Ashish Kumar Ashish Kumar
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder objects cannot be deleted
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
3087 views
1 vote
Some of the objects in a PBL (PowerBuilder library) cannot be exported, deleted, regenerated. And library itself cannot be optimized. Even those objects cannot be edited and neither their source is opened in editor. I copied the original object from...
  1.  Library
  2.  PowerBuilder
Berka Frenfert Berka Frenfert
  1. PowerBuilder
PB Resource Caching
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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Hi All, Is "physical location" of images loaded using .PBR files cached similar to location of classes and DataWindow objects? First time app needs to loads any class from disk, it searches the library list. When found, loads from disk and caches l...
Michael Kramer Michael Kramer
  1. PowerBuilder
Install a no installed PB Feature
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Andres Slachevsky replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello All, If i have installed PB2017 and did not install some features cause in the time was not neeeded and now we need to install them if i run the setup i will ask to remove and reinstall it from scartch is any way to install only the feature i...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder 12.5 REST API Post file (csv)
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Can someone explaine how send a file (encore UTF-8.) from my PC to a web service. I use MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0 to connect. Thanks
François Thibault François Thibault
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 12.5 web service behaving differently in IDE than in EXE
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Diego Vizia replied 5 years ago
7 replies
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0 votes
Hi. I'm currently developing an application that consumes a Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5. All the methods work perfectly fine inside the PowerBuilder IDE, but after deploying, some methods do not work when run from the EXE file. Some give...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  Deployment
  3.  PowerBuilder (SAP)
  4.  SOAP
Diego Vizia Diego Vizia
  1. PowerBuilder
DW row rule and column rule replace.
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hi! Is it possible change replace row and column rule? The column headers are in left side of DW, and the records are in the columns, the row id or date is on the top of DW. I Can write an SQL which is translate the value, but the column Edit type...
Géza Bartha Géza Bartha
  1. PowerBuilder
Different keyboard language on each datawindow column
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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Currently, each column of a datawindow “remembers” the selected keyboard language, when the user entered data. This means that when the user goes from one field to another (using mouse or tab) the keyboard language changes automatically. This is ver...
  1.  Bug
  2.  DataWindow
  3.  PowerBuilder
Yiannis Papadomichelakis Yiannis Papadomichelakis
  1. PowerBuilder
Closing main windows on a dockable MDI frame app
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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hi! PB app (and IDE) crashes when I attempt to close a window sheet on inside the open event, while running on a MDIDock frame. When it's a simple MDI frame, no problem occurs. I am wondering if it's a bad practice to close windows inside open even...
  1.  Bug
  2.  Dockable
  3.  PB Classic
  4.  Window
Yiannis Papadomichelakis Yiannis Papadomichelakis
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder writes "UTF - 8" encoding to Git commits
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Gordon Leishman replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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Hi all. We are using a Git repository to store our powerbuilder sources and a Teamcity server to build a setup from it.Now, when I commit changes to Git from inside Powerbuilder, this commit contains an "encoding UTF - 8".And that's a problem for Te...
  1.  Encoding
  2.  Git
Rolf Knaden Rolf Knaden
  1. PowerBuilder
Does someone already used GitLab/Kubernete for CI/CD with PB 2017R3 ?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Juan Alejandro Lam López replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello, I'm trying to find some references to do a CI/CD with PB2017R3 and Gitlab/Kubernete. Does someone have already experimented this ?  
patrice domange patrice domange
  1. PowerBuilder
JSON Parser Flavor?
  1. Misc
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Juan Alejandro Lam López replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Upon which JSON parser is PowerBuilder 2019 based? I can then reference which syntax variations are tolerated.   Thank you.
  1.  JSON
  2.  JSONParser
John Strano John Strano
  1. PowerBuilder

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