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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks ago
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...
            Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) 
            Rotating PDFText in PDFobject
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hi all
I'm tying to write a codebar in the left border of a multy-page PDF file using PowerBuilder 2022 R3.
 
I Want to create a new PDFText object with an codebar font ("Free 3 of 9") and add this new object to an PDF object (test.pdf) where prev...
            Hello,
We have PowerServer 2020 web application and have web server and 2 cluster app server setup. Some of our users are getting Error 11030 "Failed to handle the request because the Appeon Cluster configuration file is not configured properly in t...
            AppCrash event from PowerBuilder 2022r3 IDE (Microsoft Edge Webview2)
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 year ago
I'm noticed that PowerBuilder IDE is logging "Windows Error Reporting" events for APPCRASH  PB220.exe 22.2.0.3289 KERNELBASE.dll 10.0.17763.5328
The funny thing is that PB is not running, and it's still logging errors.    It's logging several items ...
                    
            Hi,
My starting point is that I  have created a .DLL which I call from the application, running x64-bit mode.
In my development PC (Win11) everything works fine, when running the application either from the PB IDE or standalone from a separate fold...
                    
            Failed using Mscomm32 with 64 bits powerbuilder application
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hello community,
 
Do you think it's possible to use mscomm32.ocx when compiling Powerbuilder executable in 64 bits ?
For me it works fine when I compile in 32 bits but not in 64 bits. I get "error accessing external object properties" with the sa...
                    
            Webbrowser control is not loading PDF file when application is ran via exe
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hi All,
I am using PB 2022 build 1878.
In our application we are using webbrowser control to view PDF files (local). When we run application via IDE, everything works fine (pdf file is loaded and displayed. but when I run the application via exe, p...
            how to prevent a messagebox from displaying when i don't need it in some cases
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
in my powerbuilder 19 project, it's all about article management. when i click on "new" button, it displays a dwc_article(freeform) empty and i have to insert all the article details(reference, name ...) and in itemfocuschanged event of dwc_article. ...
                    
            Successful deploy to IIS but need to deploy to Docker/Kubernetes
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 1 year ago
I have deployed a project to IIS on a server and its working fine, but now need to deploy to Docker container.  I'm not sure the best route to go since this is new to me.  Should I try to deploy the demo application first or go ahead and deploy my ap...
            How safe is the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag for 32-bit PowerBuilder applications
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- Last updated 1 year ago
Our application is currently built on 32-bit PowerBuilder 2019 R3, with migration to 64-bit in the distant future. We've hit some problems now and then with our application taking up to 2 GB of memory, and was wondering if any testing has been done w...
                    
            Environment. Converting Powerbuilder 2017 to Powerbuilder 2022
Is there any way to bypass the C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 22.2.0.3289 access/process and be able to use an in house directory for processing the DLLs, both...
            Sequence syntax from Oracle to SqlServer
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Mark Goldsmith replied 1 year ago
I'm converting my DB from Oracle to SqlServer.  Everything is working but I'm needing to convert Oracle Sequences to SqlServer.  I have the sequence created in the database and it works when I issue this command. 
SELECT NEXT VALUE  FOR trans_id_seq...
            Is it legitimate to activate PowerServer license inside trial PowerBuilder Cloud Pro?
Will PowerServer work after trial period of PowerBuilder Cloud Pro is over?
            How to copy data from subreport on a nested dw
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Berka Frenfert replied 1 year ago
I have a nested dw (dw_data) which has a subreport dw_1. I want to copy all the data from the nested dw (dw_1) to another datawindow (dw_fake) since I cannot do a saveas on anything but the parent. I tried to loop thru parent and use rowscopy but tha...
            I have an application that uses a large amount of memory. Using GarbageCollect doesn't release memory back to the operating system that I can tell.
Is there an undocumented function to tell PowerBuilder's internal memory manager that it should relea...
            Hi,
We are using PB 2019 R3 and SQLCA.DBMS = "MSOLEDBSQL SQL Server" (i.e. Microsoft OLEDB Driver for SQL Server, Version: 18.6.0007.0) to connect the SQL Server.Recently we have received an email related to "Security Bulletin: Microsoft.Data.SqlCli...
            Anyone get WinSCP Working using COM or .Net DLL Importer?
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
I have read a lot of posts regarding getting WinSCP working in PB but nothing about how someone was able to do it (Sue Brown did say she got it working but didn't post how).  We are needing SFTP to do file transfers and this product seems to be the w...
            Windows 2012 R2 and PB 2022 R3?
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
I am looking to deploy our application on 2022 R3 but we still have many customers running Windows 2012 R2.  The help has a statement “No longer supports installing runtime to Windows Server 2012 R2”.  It is also flagged as 'Discontinued' which means...
            Opened Transaction on SQLSERVER without DML commands
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Aquitetura Corporativa Unicred replied 1 year ago
Hello all,
 
We are using Powerbuilder 2019 with SqlServer 2016 and we noticed that when connect to the database the application is always starting a new transaction (without any insert/delete or update)
if we execute the following select:
select...
            Application crash due to PBSHR.dll
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Team,
we are in PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1900, Windows Server 2019
in some particular cases, we have a system error, while trying to print some PB reports from our PB application.
Event viewer logs are attached.
 
            Sql Server - Row changed between retrieve and update
- Advice
- Last updated 1 year ago
- mike S replied 1 year ago
Sql Server 2019 
PowerBuilder 2019 R3 build 2728
I'm using ODBC connection 
I have a datastore, I change data and then do an update
lds_post_dates.setitem(i, "column_name", ll_value)ll_rv = lds_post_dates.update()
 
The base table for the datas...
                    
            
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