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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 11 months 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 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
@col use in a datawindow expression
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 hours ago
- John Fauss replied 3 hours ago
Hello,
I was watching an article about @col expression.
Is it possible to use @col, to get the number or name of the column in a datawindow expression?
I was making some tests with describe in with no success.
Thanks and regards...
Find out column name in an expression.
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- Issue
- Last updated 7 years ago
- Jhonns Salas replied 5 hours ago
Hi
Is there any way to have an expression in a Datawindow refer to itself by name (or column number)?
For example if I want to have editable columns be underlined, I could use this code in its border expression.
if( long( describe( .TabSequenc...
External application DB connection with Powerserver
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 7 hours ago
I have a Calendar application which needs to connect to same database as powerserver application.
Is there a way to connect external application to database through powerserver?
Hi all,
This shall be the last beta before Version 2025 GA release. There are three bug fixes in this beta:
https://docs.appeon.com/pb/release_bulletin_for_pb/Build-3674-Bug-Fixes.html
And for all the changes in the past betas, see here: https://d...
Hello Experts!
Need help with using/calling Microsoft Graph API in PowerBuilder 2022 version to send Outlook Emails.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks
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GetCookies using Antview's WebView2 ActiveX Control
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Gregory Rusak replied 11 hours ago
Hello,
We've been using AntView's MS Edge Webview2 ActiveX control (.ocx) for a while now with PowerBuilder 2022 R3 and with version 1.1.460.0 they have introduced a method to list all of the cookies for a User's Profile.
The CookieManager is a "pr...
Why save as xlsx cannot work for PB2022 on WIN2016 server
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 14 hours ago
Dear Appeon:
We tried the Powerbuilder 2022 R3, and try to use the datawindow saveas function to save data into excel file. we noticed that xlsx format are also supported in the PB2022, but unfortunately, the compiled application works well ...
Error writing object information
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- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 14 hours ago
We are using PB 2022 R3. We have 10 PBLs, standalone desktop application. Application APP.exe being created as expected and maintained in the same path as where PBLs and DLLs are present after deployment. Recently PowerClient was upgraded in IDE. Tod...
Obfuscation of the various method names, variable names, code
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 19 hours ago
Hi Appeon, Existing code which generated Binary executables using PB 2022 R3 can be disassembled or decompiled using freely available tools, we understood a malicious user can understand the application logic.
Is there any method or process availabl...
Sending files with SFTP
- How-to
- Last updated 5 years ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 22 hours ago
Hi all
I need to send files via SFTP .
It can be done by PB ? maybe without using 3'rd party program ?
Its a client / server application using pb 2017 r3
Thanks
I have a DW where I can perform a maximum zoom of 330%, if the zoom is performed on the centre of the DW or on the left area of the DW it works perfectly.
To do this, the centre is calculated before and after the zoom and then the scroll bar is posi...
Looking for a solution to Save As for a composite Datawindow
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- Last updated 2 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 23 hours ago
Hi there again to all PowerBuilder Gurus - I know I come up with some weird questions every time. Sorry about that :-)
So, here is the thing! I have a composite Datawindow made of sub-DWs that's being run for a report. The client is requesting for a...
Good Practice using Git with PB2022 R3
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 23 hours ago
After reading the PowerBuilder documentation on adding the source code to a Gitlab repository, I wanted to know if it is good or bad practice to add the workspace and target to the repository. I will be one of many users who will work with this code ...
PB 2022R3 - RTE control - insertpicture
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 days ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 23 hours ago
I just migrated our applications from powerbuilder 2019r3 to pb 2022r3. Found that the RTF editor now behaves differently when calling the insertpicture function. Previously it inserted the binary data of the image into the RTF, whereas now it only i...
PB 2025 Beta: Secure Connection Encryptor
- How-to
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi,
I've tested the new secure connection encryptor.
I found out that the properties like servername, log id, ... are empty when secure connection encrption was used.
So there are some disadvantages with this feature:
you can't get and show som...
How to debug datawindow syntax error?
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- New
- How-to
- Last updated 2 days ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi! I'm running PB 2022 R3 Build 3397 with SQL Server 2019 backend.
I'm getting some build errors like this:
C:\source\desktop_admin.pbl|d_provider_type_selection_dd Error: Incorrect syntax near 'identifier'.
This datawindow compiles and works in ...
How to change update.bmp in CloudAppLauncher
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi. I'm running PB 2022R3 Build 3397. We are trying to brand the CloudAppLauncher loading screens.
We created a loading_ica.gif and an update.bmp.
I added both files to the "External files" Files preloaded in uncompressed format in the PowerServer...
i currently use Dropbox for file storage. Thanks for all those that have helped me with that in the past. We want to migrant to using Amazon S3 for data storage. I am having a hard time finding code examples that do not include Chilkat. Sorry for my ...
Will these combo work?
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- Misc
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
Hello,
Can we use PB 2025 for development and still support PB 2022 R3 b 3356 as runtime? OR runtime should also be from the same major version?
Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash
GIT issue with source and pbls out of sync.
- Issue
- Last updated 2 years ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 2 days ago
We've been working with GIT and ADO for a few months now. Today, I did a git pull, followed by refresh. But I got errors about files not compiling after the pull. Also, can't save objects without an error. It seems as though the source and the pbl ar...
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