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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
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
Is there an MDI regain focus event?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Tracy Lamb replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi Friends, I have an MDI app.  In one of MDI sheets, I have a dw object and a tab object.  Both objects have code for the rbuttonup event that pops up a different menu depending on which object or tab is clicked. When the user has the app running ...
  1.  PFC
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
  1. PowerBuilder
Question about organizing of resource files
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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PB 2021 , build 1506, 32 bit From the distant past we have inherited a program structure with exe files and pbd files for all our applications. In the application projects, the exe files and pbd files are assigned pbr files exactly matching the ico...
  1.  32-bit
  2.  Icon
  3.  PBD
Sverre Tvedt Sverre Tvedt
  1. PowerBuilder
ExportJson using Template
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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Hello Alli need to Export a Datawindow to a Json the issue is that the the items have Upper and Lower case  like :codigoDepartamentoReceptor or fechaHora when i create the datawindow the name are always change to all lowercase i did try to use the...
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerBuilder
Re: Computed columns with SQLite
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 2 years ago
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Hello, Using Powerbuilder 2019 R3, SQLite, ODBC Driver from http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ Need to cast a computed column as date, but PB interprets it as a char column only.  I tried Datawindow's column specification, we get All those compu...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  SQLite
Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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SnapObject Project to connect to Sybase ASE
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi all, I'm banging my head against the wall here.  I'm been working with snapdevelop and visual studio to migrate our old client server application [Front end connects to ASE directly]. hoping to evolve to an architecture where front end interact...
  1.  ASE
  2.  C#
  3.  SnapDevelop
  4.  Web API
Maurice Losier Maurice Losier
  1. SnapDevelop
Can I change the dataobject of a datawindowchild dynamically?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 years ago
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I have a datawindow with a dropdowndatawindow (datawindowchild). I want to change the dataobject of the dropdowndatawindow base on if their is some data in a table. I try the following but PowerBuilder tells me invalid property. //cch declare the da...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Clarence Chamorro Clarence Chamorro
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
HttpClient using in PowerBuild2021
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
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We are using powerbuilder 2021. We migrated from powerbuilder11.5 to powerbuilder2021. We are in middle of converting web calls. We wanted to use HttpClient as recommended by Appeon. I am calling a url which is wdsl has a function requires 3 paramete...
Rajagopal VV Rajagopal VV
  1. PowerBuilder
How to connect to SQL Server with Windows integrated authentication?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Thanks for any hint Peter
Peter Klopfer Peter Klopfer
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder VM not found when starting a service
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
7 replies
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We have a service which was built in PB 2017.  We have upgraded the service and deployed it to a new Windows Server VM. When we try start the service, we get this error I then checked in Event Viewer and the error is "Powerbuilder VM not found". ...
Tanya Weaver Tanya Weaver
  1. PowerBuilder
Change Datawindow data access to something other than direct DB connection
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Question to the PB Community: We have a monolithic application consisting of a PowerBuilder frontend and C# .NET application server, both of which are tied to a MS SQL Server database. When the application was first written it was strictly PB, but o...
  1.  Database
  2.  DataWindow
  3.  Service
Tim Ford Tim Ford
  1. PowerBuilder
How to run a desktop application on different databases
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi all. We have a desktop application that runs only on Oracle (currently using PowerBuilder 10 but we are already getting 2021). I am looking for tips on better ways to make this application also run on SQLServer. It is based on datawindows but a...
Luiz Ribeiro Luiz Ribeiro
  1. PowerBuilder
HTML editor for creating the body of an email
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, My application sends outbound emails and I need my users to be able to edit the body of the email.  Id like them to be able to format the body of the email with the same type of options as if you were in Outlook or another email tool which ...
  1.  Editor
  2.  Email
Mitch Goldstein Mitch Goldstein
  1. PowerBuilder
conn.Useintegratedwindowsauthentication( True) bad runtime function reference runtime on 2 out of 1000 client PCs
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 years ago
4 replies
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Old school PowerBuilder. Using PB 19 R3 Build 2670. Basic client server. Calling a Web service proxy via SOAP. Code sample below: TRY        conn.Useintegratedwindowsauthentication( True)    CATCH (Throwable x)        ls_error = x.GetMessage()     ...
Ed Van Haren Ed Van Haren
  1. PowerBuilder
Accessing MS Access 64 bit ODBC with 32 bit PowerBuilder. Possible?
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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HI  I am using a 32 bit version of PowerBuilder. We have a 64 bit version of MS Access that has the suffix .accdb. I would like to connect PB to that database. Is it possible using PB? I do not seem to able to see any 64 bit drivers in PB.     ...
Tom McArdle Tom McArdle
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerclient
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Dexter Madrinan replied 2 years ago
3 replies
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Hi Guys,   Good Day!   I tried to deploy our application using Powerclient and it successfully working and up. Now, we had an issue when patching updates to our customer side because our application is huge and our source control in on premise on...
  1.  PowerClient
Dexter Madrinan Dexter Madrinan
  1. PowerBuilder
Obtaining the value of an input field from a webbrowser control
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
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I am trying to implement a webbrowser control and inside the webbrowser control I am trying to implement a way to collect value from the input field.   This is a test webpage I have setted up: https://stc.opensyscon.com.au/test.html   The code of...
Nish Ag Nish Ag
  1. PowerBuilder
Notfication about notifications
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi, Just a small thing: Once again, on this site, I'm getting a notification in the bell icon saying something like "Awesome! I've caught up with all of my notifications ...". I think that's pretty useless and quite annoying, can we get rid of it?...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
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Using the for-loop to process data from datawindow become very slow after we migrate from PB7 to PB2021
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 years ago
5 replies
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Dear Sir, We just migrated our system from PB7 to PB2021.However, we found those windows which using "For-Loop" script in datawindow", the processing time become very slow. The PB2021 version is about 50 times slower than the PB7 Version.We use Oracl...
Pierce Liu Pierce Liu
  1. PowerBuilder
Keyboard space key not working in powerbulder ide
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 2 years ago
1 reply
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Hi,   Keyboard space key not working. It use to work then after sometime it stop working. Do i need to uninstall and reinstall the powerbuilder?
mathews rutto mathews rutto
  1. PowerBuilder
PB2021 - Webbrowser control not working
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Gowthaman Rammohan replied 2 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, I am using Powerbuilder 2021  build 1509. I have a webbrowser control in one of my windows. If I open  powerbuilder 2021 as an administrator, webbrowser control works fine. If I open  Powerbuilder 2021 normally (not as administrator), webbrow...
  1.  WebBrowser
Gowthaman Rammohan Gowthaman Rammohan
  1. PowerBuilder

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