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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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- 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. :)
Sample Amazon S3 code not using Chilkat
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- mike S replied 2 days ago
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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- Last updated 5 days ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 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.
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- Last updated 2 years ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 3 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...
Format the Email body text into JSON string
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- Daryl Foster replied 3 days ago
Hi All,
We are creating an email configuration window in our PB application.
In the email window, we are using RichText window control for composing the email body
Below is the code to copy the email body content to string
ll_numchars = rte_1...
How to enable ASLR DEP SafeSEH on EXE using 2022 R3 PB
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- Krupa Kiran Tadepalli replied 3 days ago
I have PowerBuilder Desktop application. I want to understand how to enable compiler options on executable - ASLR DEP SafeSEH
Power Client Showing On older version -Attached screen shot both
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- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
we are having ERP where our application will be configured as server mode of database in one system then multiple systems will connect through application as client of that database server .so we are having the functionality of sending auto mail thro...
How can I put a paragraph of text into a datawindow?
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- Last updated 3 days ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
I have a datawindow report that includes a full paragraph of text. The text is static and does not come from the database. Right now I just use a series of static text objects. But I have to use 15 of them to get the full paragraph in there. Is there...
I have made changes to a pbl. When I go to save I am receiving the following error: Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Unable to open library e:\letter.pbl
Power Builder IDE 2025 Beta - requires .NET 8 or can be used > .NET 9
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- Advice
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Krupa Kiran Tadepalli replied 4 days ago
Hi Appeon, we have a situation while installing PB IDE 2025 BETA found that requirement is to have Microsoft .NET 8.04.406. Can Power Builder IDE 2025 BETA be installed with higher version of .NET which is greater than Microsoft .NET 9 ? Will it crea...
Open a window in a PB app from another PB app
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- René Ullrich replied 4 days ago
Hello!
I have a PB app (App A) and I need to open another PB app (App B) from App A . I've already managed to open App B so the thing is, if App B is already open, I need to open a certain window from App A and I have no idea how to achieve this, a...
Powerbuilder session locking out frequently
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Tom Jiang @Appeon replied 4 days ago
My powerbuilder session keeps locking out multiple times. Every time the system restart happens due to update or when shutdown it displays the following message when I try to launch the app:
The administrator has to kick out out the session forceful...
Customize Quick Access Toolbar - Save when modified
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Tom Mangano replied 4 days ago
In PB2025 using the option DisplayMenuAsRibbonBar works as expected. (Awesome upgrade!)
At the end of the Ribbon Bar there's a small drop down
When you click it, Customize Quick Access Toolbar appears with other options below it.
If you uncheck...
Getting Y position of MDI sheet relative to screen
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 days ago
- Konstantin Goldobin replied 4 days ago
Hello,
It's a very basic PB question but somehow I haven't been able to find an answer. If it matters, I'm using PB 2019 R3.
I'm trying to move a window to the centre of an MDI sheet both horizontally and vertically. To do this, I need to get the X...
Hi,
I found an issue while selecting a file through the browse button in the dialog box. When the path for the file is updated, the DLL import is not working, and the DLLs are not being loaded.
Heres the code snippet:
lnv_assembly = CreateDotNet...
View the Excel In Powerbuilder Application Using OLE Control
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- YuSeok Kim replied 5 days ago
Dear
I want to open the excel file inside the powerbuilder application same like inside the outside excel file showing the data.
I was try with the following steps but it is not working properly.
draw one ole excel object in the window
...
.NET DLL importer issue
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 5 days ago
Hello, i've successfully imported a .NET DLL with the .NET DLL Importer Tool inside powerbuilder IDE.Successfully deployed and compiled and everything working as expected on my machine. Even on other two windows 11 machines working great.
In some ot...
Active Tab's color problem running in IDE but not when compiled in PB2022
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- How-to
- Last updated 6 days ago
- Mark Goldsmith replied 5 days ago
Hello All,We have just migrated our application from PB2017R3 to PB2022R3.We see that there is an issue with Tabs' colors when running the application in the IDE. The active tab's color is white or transparent which does not reflect the defined color...
Need installer for older version!
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Richard Hartman replied 1 week ago
We have been working with an outdated version (2021 build 1509) partly because we haven't been wanting to deal with attempting to change powerbuilder versions at the same time we are stuck with converting from sybase to ms sql server.
One of our e...
PB 12.5 Deployment reflects no changes
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Michael Palanog replied 1 week ago
Hello, apologies if this is a question about such an old version of PowerBuilder, but had few places to ask this.
Situation is that I am working on a program that I inherited for my job, made some changes on certain reports. Works fine when I run it...
why after power server deployment, its throwing error that data window not found. Mainly dropdown data window....dddw_xxxx.I can see it already in my library list. What could be the issue. We are on PB 2022 R3 3397
Any guidance is highly appreciat...
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