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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
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Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
How to get local migrated Powerbuilder 2021 files to GitHub repository
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Tom Jiang @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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I have completed migrating my PowerBuilder source to PowerBuilder 2021 on my local machine.  We use GitHub as a repository.  How do I all my migrated pbl files to GitHub repository?  
Barbara Green Barbara Green
  1. PowerBuilder
Reading XML file
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 4 years ago
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Hello all   I am trying to read an xml file from my app - just using the standard way . fileopen , fileread , pos and mid to get the data . The file contains Hebrew letters which shown on screen as symbols .  I have tried encoding ans so on but n...
  1.  XML
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
Using Standalone Copy of Git w/Tortoise Git/AzDo while using PowerBuilder 2019 R3
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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I'm needing some clarification with an environment configuration. Working with a team that has roughly 34 PowerBuilder licenses.  They are in the process of moving from TFS over to Git. They just sent out a working document on installing and config...
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  2.  Git
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Jeff Gibson Jeff Gibson
  1. PowerBuilder
PB2019 application cannot connect to database.
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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After I migrated the legacy code (Powerbuild 7) to PB2019 successful, and ran application but I got the error message " Unable to initialize client library context" when I clicked OK button on login window.  I did setup the database connection throug...
Kelvin Doan Kelvin Doan
  1. PowerBuilder
Is FTPS instead of FTP possible for PowerClient ?
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  2.  Pierre Couvreur replied 4 years ago
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Hello, My organization prohibits usage of FTP but allows FTPS. Is it possible to use FTPS for direct deployment to the PowerClient server ? Thank you very much ! Pierre  
Pierre Couvreur Pierre Couvreur
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Get runtime version info
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  2.  Aleš Vojáček replied 4 years ago
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Hi, I'm using this snipet to get info about runtime : string ls_versioncontextinformation lcx_keyGetContextService ( "ContextInformation", lcx_key)lcx_key.GetVersionName ( ls_version ) But it returns 19.2.0 Im using PB 2019R3 and runtime 2703. I...
Aleš Vojáček Aleš Vojáček
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Web API change IP
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  2.  Bernhard Giesriegl replied 4 years ago
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Hi all, hope this wasn't asked before: Creating the web api sample project from snap development 2021 I get a service listening on localhost:5000. Connecting with a test program consuming on this address works fine. When I change the IP address in ...
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  2.  Web API
Bernhard Giesriegl Bernhard Giesriegl
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PowerBuilder 2019 - Tab control tab headers larger now?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 4 years ago
10 replies
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So just built our largest application in PowerBuilder 2019 R3 Build 2703 from PowerBuilder 2017 R2 Build 1769 and the tab headers appear to be larger than they used to be, so things no longer line up correctly. Am I just making it up? Is this a know...
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. PowerBuilder
RibbonBar Large Button menu remains open
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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I have created a RibbonBar that contains a LargeButton with a menu in PowerBuilder 2019 R3 Build 2670.  The contents of the menu are dynamically populated at runtime.  When running the application, clicking on the LargeButton opens the menu.  However...
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Timothy Beck Timothy Beck
  1. PowerBuilder
"ORA-01024: invalid datatype in OCI call" oracle 19 Server, PB2019 R2 Build 2353
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 years ago
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Hi, an error occurred while attempting to call PL/SQL Oracle procedure with string array as parameter using Oracle 19 server. Tried to install Oracle 19 client and set PBNewSPInvocation='Yes' in the DBPARM connection parameter with no result. I sa...
  1.  Client
  2.  Oracle
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  Server
Luca Militello Luca Militello
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Window not display
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  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hello, I am using PB 2019 R3 2703 Trail. I am trying to switch an MDI application to the RibbonBar. I start the application and select a window from the Ribbonbar, it is called but it is not visible. With the old menu everything works.The call in t...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Ewald Wallner Ewald Wallner
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.Net Datastore Get column type
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  2.  Francisco Martinez @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi  I`m just starting to work whit SnapDevelop and .net DataStore,   while learning C# as well. I'm trying to get the column type from my Generic type DataStore , has anyone out there have an example on how to do this. So far I can get the column na...
Daniel Richard Daniel Richard
  1. .NET DataStore
Microsoft OLE Browser - Still Using Internet Explorer?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 years ago
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We are using the Microsoft OLE browser object in PB 2017 and PB 2019 (we're migrating over). Does the Microsoft OLE Web Browser object still use Internet Explorer or does it use Edge? We are having issues with the new native web browser since it do...
John Valentin John Valentin
  1. PowerBuilder
List of PB Runtime Error #'s and Text?
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 4 years ago
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Does anyone know where there is a list of all of the PB runtime errors (Rnnnn) and either the text of the accompanying message or a brief description of each error? I'm normally able to locate info like this, but I've struck out. TIA
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
PFC FileServices without PFC
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 4 years ago
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Hello, Know where I can find PFC_n_cst_filesrvWin32 "like" file services extracted and abstracted from the PFC? I need to port PFC visual layer service code to a non-visual service layer. The windows code uses directory and a few other n_cst_filesr...
Yakov Werde Yakov Werde
  1. PowerBuilder
Orca still generate pbg files
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi all, I'm using orca script as part of automated build (PB2019R3) as SC i'm using Github so I have ws_objects directory which contains subdir for each pbl and inside that subdir there are files for each object in pbl.   orca script : start sess...
Aleš Vojáček Aleš Vojáček
  1. PowerBuilder
Numeric Value with 0 Precision Pulling Erroneous Decimals
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Matt Kluzak replied 4 years ago
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Hello,   I have an application that looks at a Sybase ASE 15.7 database with fields of Numeric(18,0). All values in the database are whole numbers. I recently noticed that in one datawindow the field would display properly as 1002000000002399, but ...
Matt Kluzak Matt Kluzak
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The new webbrowser control
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hello all   Can i display mp4 files with the new webbrowser control ? the files  are located on the local pc / network  When  i am trying to navigate to a file , the control opens a black screen and noting happend  as you can see the image attac...
  1.  WebBrowser
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
Seconds Precision
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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The help topic 'standard datatypes' says this about the Time datatype: The time in 24-hour format, including the hour (00 to 23), minute (00 to 59), second (00 to 59), and fraction of second (up to six digits), with a range from 00:00:00 to 23:59:...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
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Why does the subset of PBv12 APP perform like PB2019 version of same app
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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I finally identified the cause of the performance slowdown in both PBv12 and PB2019R3. The problem is the DBPARM option "DisableBind=1". Removing the DISABLEBIND=1 from the DBPARMS resolves the issue in both PBv12.1 and PB2019R3.   Solution: Ch...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
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