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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.   :) 
            Is a grid datawindow column visible or not?
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
Our application has a feature where which columns are visible or not can be decided by the end user and the settings are stored in the database.
When I loop through the columns to check the Visible property, all the columns return 1 (True). It appea...
            SQL Connection with Domain Account -- SQL User vs AD User
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- John Fauss replied 3 years ago
Hi, Trying to connect to a SQL database with an AD account and not using a trusted connection. Is this possible with PB 2021 or do we need to continue using SQL users?
 
IOW 'adUser' is a domain account that has permissions to dbServer, but we are ...
            New to PS 2021, trying to do a POC to show management.  I'm trying to create a POC on my local machine with Oracle.  In the Project/Database Configuration, it's asking me to specify the location of the Oracle driver.  I clicked browse and found the O...
            PB 2019R2 - Paste from Clipboard into Datawindow Limit?
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- John Fauss replied 3 years ago
In PowerBuilder 2019 R2, we have a datawindow with a column that is 5000 characters.  Users typically paste data into this column (from clipboard).  However, if the data being pasted in is greater than 1024 characters, the column will not allow that ...
            Any issue in opening appeon.com website
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hello,
Any issue in opening the appeon website (appeon.com)?  From yesterday it's not opening.  I tried in 3 - 4 computers, couldn't open in any computer(s).  I get the following error
 
However I could open https://www.appeon.com/developers/get-h...
                    
            datawindow.print() don't freeze parent window
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hello,
When validating a powerbuilder process, by clicking on a save button, we trigger a window event. In this event we do a datawindow.print() and the buffering window appears, the event stops, but curiously we can interact with the window by clic...
            Hello,
Our PowerServer application gets AppeonWAShell message "Session is disconnected. Connect again?"  after the database SQL takes about 2 minutes 30 seconds. We are using PowerServer 2020, Oracle database 19, Dynamic Database Connection and Pool...
            PowerClient Caveat - Deploy without Building - ZIP or EXE Packaging Fails
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
FYI folks...
PowerClient...
- Direct deploy to IIS succeeds as does the installation to the clients from IIS.
- Packaging of Executable installer succeeds.
- Choosing to Package the compiled app fails.
After splitting the PBDs succeeds
From the...
                    
            How to change PowerServer Application Title on Testing License Server
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hello,
We are using Power Server 2020 with test license. How may we change the PowerServer Application title? The Application/Client Features/Application Title is setting as "For Testing Use Only -" on AEM and is not editable.
Thanks,
Jon
            Hi Everyone,
What can be done to avoid DLL hijacking for a Powerbuilder application in a Windows environment.
Files may be signed using Microsoft sign tool but this will not protect from hijacking unless you somehow use verify to check the 
files ...
                    
            Difference in size of the image when displayed in two different ways
- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 years ago
Hello,
PB 2019 R3, PostgreSQL 11
Got blob data in one of our tables where images are stored, which we are showing in two different ways.   The output looks different in the display size.   Why?
Left hand side:   which is a picture column [ Inser...
                    
            What Happens when Specifying Runtime Directory in XML File
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- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- André Monz replied 3 years ago
Trying to use the new [appname].xml file to specify the location of the runtime files but I am wondering what files should I place in there.  I know the PB Runtimes but what about PBX files, Oracle Files, INI Files, etc.? 
I am assuming that this fe...
            I have an old Powerbuilder 12.5 desktop application.  It has been running fine, and I'm in the process of totally rewriting it in another language.
However, I'd like it to continue to work until I can complete that project.
Recently, some windows u...
            About assigning the program icon
- Misc
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 3 years ago
I noticed that PB 2021 is storing the icon file name in the source code of the application object. I am wondering when this was added.
This is something I brought up to Sybase during the PB 10 beta and I brought it up a couple times since. I am very...
            PowerBuilder 2017 Standard Edition No longer available?
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- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Vipin Dwivedi replied 3 years ago
PB Appeon Team,
Our company is holding PB2017 R3 Standard edition license for all PB developers. Now we are looking for more licenses for new developers. What we came to know from Appeon portal that standard versions are no longer for new license an...
            Multi browser plugin stopped working
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- mike S replied 3 years ago
We use Powerserver 2019 Build 2151.00 here. As of Friday 2/4/22 the mulitbrowser plugin has stopped working for our clients and
internally as well since we use Chrome.They get the message:"Appeon Web application has quit successfully. Please refresh...
            Powerbuilder OLE Excel Column validation using List from another column
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- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Mark Goldsmith replied 3 years ago
Hi all,
I am trying to convert Excel macro commands into Powerbuilder script.
The following macro script validates a column against a named list...
Sub SetColumnList()' SetColumnList Macro' Assigns a Named List to a column Range("G3:G65536,G1").Se...
            How can I make WebBrowser control work? (Powerbuilder 2021)
- How-to
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
Hello, I just upgraded from Powerbuilder 10 to Powerbuilder 2021 and I want to use the new WebBrowser object you are providing. I cannot find any good example or tutorial about how to use it. I haven't been able to load a web page so far. I am settin...
                    
            Why am I receiving a useless notification "Awesome! You've caught up with all notifications"? (causing me to NOT have caught up with all of them).
The red thingy on the notification bell icon is clear enough.
Sometimes we just code stuff for the sa...
            64bit ODBC sql server - Invalid character value for cast specification
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- Issue
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 3 years ago
PB2019R3 BUILD 2728
Getting a couple of sql server errors using 64 bit PB and ODBC.  32bit PB no problems.  I didn't get this with PB 2017R3 64 bit.  
 
The first one is caused by running a datawindow with a string argument:
Select Error: SQLSTAT...
            
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