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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 1 week 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.   :) 
            Good morning, everyone,
We are facing the following issue:Our application keeps crashing repeatedly due to the following DLL:
PBSHR.dllVersion: 22.2.0.3356Exception Code: 0xc0000005Error Offset: 0x00147234
We were able to the issue as follows:
Th...
            tab on the parent, it is not visible?
- Issue
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Rafał Blecharz replied 11 months ago
Do you have a similar problem that if we add a tab to the parent, it is not visible in the inherited window? PB 22r3 3356
            Hi,
 
In my company we were running PB 2022 R2 since it was released. We have a large structure of PBLs interconnected one with the others. We have the Core, Framework and application specific PBLs. Furthermore, we are using PBAutobuild in order to...
                    
            datawindow date issue ps 2022
- Issue
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 11 months ago
Hello,
 
We are migrating from ps 2019 to ps 2022 r3.  Whenever I pass a date into a datawindow, I get this error
Client enters a date range in a datawindow, I extract that date into a date variable and then pass it into the datawindow date argu...
            Auto scroll large DataWindow to set column show
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Hi,
I have defined a DataWindow that exceeds the screen size and form. It is too long. During its validation, when there is an error, I want to position myself in a row that is outside the visible range. I'm using the SetColumn function. Unfortunate...
            Using ChatGPT to generate PB Code
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- Misc
- Last updated 2 years ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 11 months ago
For what it's worth, I've asked ChatGPT to write PowerBuilder code for a few relatively simple functions.  The results were good, often giving me better ways to approach a problem.  Amazing stuff this AI.
                    
            PowerBuilder and AI (Copilot+ and others)
- Advice
- Last updated 1 year ago
- David Peace (Powersoft) replied 11 months ago
Hi Appeon,
 
Will PowerBuilder have the ability to interact directly with Copilot+ or other AI services ?
 
Thanks
Steen
 
ps. Please add an "AI"  TAG to the tags list in this community.
                    
            Hi Support,
We are facing issue in setting the Bar Value as Below as shown in below pic. 
 
Please advice
Chakrapani S
                    
            TCP IP Socket connection - Enable TLS
- Advice
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Simon Jutzi replied 11 months ago
We are using TCP/IP Socket Winsock function 'connect' to the server on IP\PORT. Application is not web enabled [ No HTTP\HTTPS]. Is there anyway we can make TCP/IP socket connection using Winsock functionality SSL [TLS 1.2] enabled to make connection...
            How to troubleshoot build issue when PBAutoBuild220.exe not giving error log and IDE crashes too
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- Issue
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Hi:
In PowerBuilder 2022 R3, we are experiencing an issue with the PBAutoBuild220.exe. The build is failing and we get a build log, but it does not write to the build error log.  Here is the command:
PBAutoBuild220.exe /f "App.json" /l BuildLog.log...
            Migrate PFC 6 to PFC 2025
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Can someone detail the steps to migrate from PFC 6 to PFC 2025?
Olan had posted something similar a while back as an answer to this type of question, but most of the links are deprecated.
Also, suggestions on how to handle custom/business logic cod...
                    
            How to count Lines of Code in Powerbuilder
- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Christophe Dufourmantelle replied 11 months ago
Hi All,
How to count Lines of Code in Powerbuilder (inclusive of dw, uo, menus, windows etc)? Is there any way in doing that in powerbuilder
Thanks  Rgds,
Mani.S
 
            Use of Generic Text Printer Driver
- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Brad Mettee replied 11 months ago
PB 2022 Build 1892.
We have customers who use a product called Softdocs.
What it does is:
The PB app or InfoMaker prints a report to the Softdocs printer driver.
The Softdocs printer driver forwards the data to a physical printer of your choice.
...
            Chnage the exsitng menue of PB 12.5 to Appeon 2022 R3
- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Hi Team,
Actually, we have migrated our Applications from Pb 12.5 to Appeon 2022 R3.As there are many new features related to UI in Appeon 2022.  I want to enhance the menus of my application with new features of Appeon 2022 without putting too much...
            Issue with PB2025 Beta2
- Issue
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Hi , i am trying to migrate a powerbuilder project to the PB 2025 Beta2 but this is not working. The initial migration is succesfull . After that i migrate the workspace to solution , also this is successful and the solution file is created .The issu...
            Connect to Sybase12 from Java
- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 11 months ago
I know it has nothing to do with the current Powerbuilder, but since we come from where we come from we have a problem that we don't know how to solve.
We need to connect from Java through a jar connector to a database in Sybase12.
We are trying al...
            Connect to Workspace fails using GIT
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Maurice Losier replied 11 months ago
I'm posting this more for information to Appeon. I was pulling down one of the branches of code into PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Build 3356 using Connect to Workspace. I was connecting via GIT with Basic Authentication. The runtime version is set to 22.0.0....
                    
            powerbuilder 7.0 word saveas to pdb
- Advice
- Last updated 11 months ago
- René Ullrich replied 11 months ago
Dear Guru,
I have a question. I have an application built with PowerBuilder 7.0 that contains a script similar to the one below. There is a function that opens, edits, and saves a document as a PDF. This function was working fine before, but last we...
            Using Git Tag in powerbuilder.
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- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Rafał Blecharz replied 11 months ago
Hi.
I know that creating tags isn't directly supported within PB's IDE. But I wonder if we are safe to use Tags (annotated or lightweight) in our PB projects. We investigate usage of those features using TortoiseGit. Does anyone has used - tested th...
                    
            hi,
 
Our Windows application server (2022) keeps going down with below error message. We have our PB 2022 R2 application hosted on this server..
Windows Management Instrumentation has stopped WMIPRVSE.EXE because a quota reached a warning value. ...
            
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