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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 2 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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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  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
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PDFDocument, how to create a line/rectangle
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  1. Last updated 5 hours ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 hours ago
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Hi PDF gurus, is there a way to create lines and rectangles via PDFDocument based functionalities? Thanks in advance, Bernhard
Bernhard Stoeter Bernhard Stoeter
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PBL comparison tool
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  1. Last updated 5 hours ago
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I recently got a new PC at work I can no longer run ProDiff. I've installed it numerous times with several versions of .Net but I can't find any way to make it work anymore. So, does anyone have a suggestion on another tool to use to compare PBLs and...
Lisa Willford Lisa Willford
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DataWindow/DataStore sorting algorithm
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  1. Last updated 5 hours ago
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Hi together, I' like to know which sorting algorithm datawindow/datastore.Sort() is based on. Thanks in advance, Bernhard
Bernhard Stoeter Bernhard Stoeter
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PB 2025 code editor tab width
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  1. Last updated 11 hours ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 6 hours ago
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We just upgraded from PowerBuilder 2022 to 2025, and all our code which was very well aligned in PB 2022 now looks an utter mess.Is there a way to adjust the tab width in the code editor ?Note : The script and editor settings are the same in PB 2022 ...
Stein Hemma Stein Hemma
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Compiler keeps recompiling over and over and over . Cant work with 70+ pbls
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 6 hours ago
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OMG,I'm making cosmetic changes and resizing my application, which has 70+ pbls and takes 3 minutes to compile. Every time I touch anything, change a property, readjust the sizing, OMG it compiles again every time. This is ridiculous and not usable. ...
Richard Carrier Richard Carrier
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fails to run
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  1. Last updated 7 hours ago
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Hi, pb2025 latest version I am having some issues getting the runtime to work on a couple of computers. 2 of which just seem to finish downloading the app launcher and then stop and do not run the application - no error message shows just does not...
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Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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Pretty form of a JSON file
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 12 hours ago
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I would like to show in a pretty form the contain of a JSON file. Is it foreseen to add this option on the JSON Object ?
Gaëtan Peyskens Gaëtan Peyskens
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Single line input events and other event issue.
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  William Hong replied 1 day ago
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Hi everyone, Im trying to build a search filter similar to the Ctrl + F feature in apps like Chrome I created a non-visual object that initializes data such as the DataWindow that i want to search and the parent window.Then, I export the DataWin...
Dim K Dim K
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Intermittent error opening a window
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 2 days ago
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Hi all, I have a customer that reports an intermittent error opening a window. The window is named Status Tracking. It can be opened from several different places. Sometimes parameters are passed in, sometimes they aren't. Customer gets the same err...
Tracy Lamb Tracy Lamb
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Creating Fillable PDF and extracting data after data entry
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Bruce Armstrong replied 2 days ago
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Hello, Currently using PB 2022 R3 with Postgresql database. There is a need 1. To create a fillable PDF, just like a Grid/Tabular datawindow.2. Distribute it. [ to send to their Email, WhatsApp, Manual transfer [eg. pendrive] ]3. Collect it [ Email...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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how to display all linked records display for each other?
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  ahmed tawfik replied 2 days ago
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Hi All I have imported letters say its numbers are (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,.....) they all in window w_imported_letter (I put these in dw_master which data source is table imported_letter(columns are imoported_no,imported_date,to_dept,subject,.......) th ...
ahmed tawfik ahmed tawfik
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export 2 datawindows into 1 PDF
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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Hi everybody, I've got a task to export 2 datawindows into 1 PDF. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks
Ross Wood Ross Wood
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Git switch branch and Solution
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Luc Railhac replied 3 days ago
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Hi, We converted our workspace into a solution and successfully recreated 2 branches in our Git repository, patch and develop (created from patch). Develop has some new objects, some modified and some deleted when compared to patch. In workspace mo...
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Luc Railhac Luc Railhac
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Dropdown synchronization issue
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  ahmed tawfik replied 3 days ago
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Hi All dw_main has two dropdown datawindows (DDDWs). 1st DDDW shows member_name, data column is member_no. 2nd DDDW shows member_file_no, data column also member_no. When you select by member_file_no (which there are many rows...
ahmed tawfik ahmed tawfik
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Which control is suitable for displaying long strings
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  William Hong replied 3 days ago
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A long string without newlineslike machine id, activation code and serial number does not look good in a MultiLineEdit control.
William Hong William Hong
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LoadPicture for InkPicture control causing issues
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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Hello Appeon Group, We're having some odd behaviour in our application using the InkPicture control when it is on a tabpage. In our application case, the inkpicture controls appear to flash and the app becomes unresponsive after trying to load a pic...
Gregory Rusak Gregory Rusak
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Treeview click doesn't give row at top level
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  1. Last updated 5 days ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 3 days ago
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I have a treeview datawindow displaying rows of items that can come from several different suppliers which are displayed in the leaves. When I click or double click on the top level item (root) in a row, the row returned is 0 and I'm unable to retri...
Rich Gibson Rich Gibson
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Deploy Project - way to exclude pbl from .exe/.pbd
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Linda Butler replied 4 days ago
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Is there a way to prevent a pbl within a library list of target from being included in build of .exe/.pbds of an application? In our set up, our developers have a 'working'' pbl where they put objects that they are working on. The project files that ...
Linda Butler Linda Butler
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Changing application icon at run time
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  1. Last updated 1 week ago
  2.  Amit Sharma replied 4 days ago
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We have one code base which is deployed for multiple brands. We are in needs to change application icon so that it's more personalize to the brands. For so long we have achieved that by writing our own deployment code using C# where we gave users bra...
Amit Sharma Amit Sharma
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Job Scheduler
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
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Hi Team, we have a PowerBuilder application.(PBD, exe). It's run as a job scheduler in frequent time period. Is it possible to run the same PowerBuilder application as job scheduler in Azure side with same time frequent? Thanks, Shenbagam Balakuma...
Shenbagam Balakumar Shenbagam Balakumar
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