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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 3 weeks ago
7 replies
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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
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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10 votes
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 items within RibbonComboBoxItem?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Does RibbonComboBoxItem have a GetItemByIndex( long index ) that is hiding under a different name? I found to inspect current item list for a ComboBox I need to ExportToJSON; then parse that full JSON structure (or similar in XML). I would like to u...
Michael Kramer Michael Kramer
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C# migration tool
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Arcady Abramov replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Feeling like an idiot here.... I downloaded trial of PB 2019 R2 universal edition. I cannot find how to launch PB to C# converter, that everyone here is talking about... Any help?
  1.  PowerBuilder
Arcady Abramov Arcady Abramov
  1. Beta Testing
Unable to use AES256 DB Encryption with Power builder 2017 R3 ?
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Sarath Pappireddy replied 5 years ago
8 replies
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0 votes
Hi Appeon Team, We are trying to Implement the DB Encryption/Decryption in one of the our application using PB 2017 R3 and SQL ANYWHERE 17. To Implement Encryption, we have initialized 3 Vector key values(CV_VCTR,CV_KEKY and CV_CEKY), which will be...
Sarath Pappireddy Sarath Pappireddy
  1. PowerBuilder
DDE - PB to PB
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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Hello, im trying to pass data throw 2 PB Apps already ejecuting. I find DDE functions and im testing this:   PB APP 1 - APP SERVER       StartServerDDE (this,"MyPBApp","System") PB APP 2 - APP CLIENT       long handle       handle=OpenChannel("...
Samuel Sanchez Avila Samuel Sanchez Avila
  1. PowerBuilder
RichTextEdit API Guide
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Neil Garcia replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hi All, I was looking for ways to get the plain text from the RTF control. I think I can get it by doing SelectTextAll, Copy and Clipboard functions but just wondering if there's another more efficient way of doing it. From google I came across a p...
Neil Garcia Neil Garcia
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow will resize horizontally, not vertically
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Libby Engelbret replied 5 years ago
6 replies
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I am attempting to update a legacy PB desktop application that was NOT built with the PFC so that it will resize when maximized.  I retrofitted the PFC resize functions into the ancestor windows and datawindows of my application.  It seems to work fi...
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  2.  Resize
Libby Engelbret Libby Engelbret
  1. PowerBuilder
When does RibbonBar display PanelItem's Picture?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 5 years ago
3 replies
2195 views
1 vote
Does anyone know when the RibbonBar is supposed to display the picture defined for each panel within a category's "tab page"? No matter what I try to do, I can't get the panel to display its own picture. Example:  RibbonBar RibbonItems Cate...
Michael Kramer Michael Kramer
  1. Beta Testing
Creating PB .NET assembly with c# assemblies
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Arcady Abramov replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Hello, team I am looking for a description of application technique which would allow me to distribute my large desktop application into PB .NET assemblies, which can be called from the main PB application. I currently have PB 12.6 NET assemblies, ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Arcady Abramov Arcady Abramov
  1. Beta Testing
Mobile app publishing issue in Google Play
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Hi, I'm getting below message from Google Play which prevents me from publising my mobile app (has to do with Javascript vulnerable libraries). Name    Version  Known issues                          Identified files jquery    1.10.2     SNYK-npm:j...
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerServer Mobile (Obsolete)
How will run cmd commands from PowerBuilder
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Kevin Ridley replied 5 years ago
4 replies
8565 views
0 votes
Hi,     I have configured AWS CLI for copying files from AWS to Local System and It is working from command Prompt (cmd.exe).   I can run cmd.exe from PowerBuilder using Run() function . But how I will run cmd and run the below command in cmd fro...
  1.  Appeon Workspace
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  PowerBuilder (SAP)
Subin Subash Subin Subash
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder 2019 Oracle 18C connectivity support.
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello, I am using Appeon PowerBuilder 20019. I was wondering if you are planning on providing support that allows Oracle to access Oracle Database server version 18C ? Please let us know. Thanks. Cheers, Manny Strachan PowerBuilder 2019 Develop...
  1.  Oracle
Manny Strachan Manny Strachan
  1. PowerBuilder
future webassembly deployment instead of appeon plugin?
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
4 replies
3124 views
1 vote
Hi guys, I am hearing a bit of buzz around browser support for webassembly and wondering if this is something appeon may be looking into for future powerbuilder web deployment. The appeon plug-in is the reason we have not used Appeon Web for any of ...
Michael Kench Michael Kench
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Printing fails after a while on Windows Server 2016 Terminal Server (Default Printer Issue)
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 5 years ago
8 replies
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Hello, a customer of our is running our PowerBuilder application on a Windows Server 2016 Terminal Server and reported that after a while users randomly cannot print anymore. When they restart our application, they can print again. Important: All ...
Alexander Manes Alexander Manes
  1. PowerBuilder
WS and files
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello   I have a ws which one of its functions getting files as  an array of bytes . I convert the array into a blob , and save it as a file in the hard disk The problem is I can't save it out side the iis directory   Does any one have an idea ...
  1.  Web Service
Moshe Tangi Moshe Tangi
  1. PowerBuilder
Theme issues (on MDIDock windows..)
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
I noticed that PB19 themes behave differently between MDI and MDI docked. It’s seems that within an mdi dock application, the background color of a window does not change according to the themes. In the attached files, you will notice the difference...
  1.  Dockable
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  Theme
Yiannis Papadomichelakis Yiannis Papadomichelakis
  1. PowerBuilder
Is Possible to copy AWS s3 bucket folder data to local System without using AWS CLI
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Subin Subash replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Is Possible to copy AWS s3 bucket folder data to local System without using AWS CLI ?   Currently I am using AWS CLI to copy data from AWS s3 bucket to local system.   I am trying to avoid AWS CLI interface . Is it possible from PB 2019 ?   Can...
  1.  Appeon Workspace
  2.  PowerBuilder
  3.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  4.  PowerBuilder (SAP)
Subin Subash Subin Subash
  1. Beta Testing
Visual Studio 2017 stopped targeting .NET Standard 2.0
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Hello, all Immediately after installing PB 2019 R2 Beta, the VS2017 on my machine lost the ability to target .NET standard 2.0 What exactly does the PB 2019 R2 installation changes in the global VS settings? I, myself, suspect Snap Develop, which ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
Arcady Abramov Arcady Abramov
  1. Beta Testing
Application developed using PB 2017 R2 build 1756 is crashed
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Praveen Govindasamy Raju replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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We have developed the application using power builder r2 build 1756 . The application is used for bulk insert/update of summary records ( more than 1 lakh) into tables . The application successfully inserts some 18000 records and then it closes/crash...
Praveen Govindasamy Raju Praveen Govindasamy Raju
  1. PowerBuilder
Appeon 2019 vs 2017 permissions issue
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hello, Prerequisites - Appeon 2017 has been running for years with no issues from Citrix.   We successfully migrated from Appeon 2017 to Appeon 2019 latest version. We replaced all the runtime DLL's in our deployment directory. The app runs perf...
Gary Kagan Gary Kagan
  1. PowerBuilder
C# Class Importer rescales PB IDE to 100%
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
My setup Windows 10.0.18362.10024 PB 2019 R2 #2203 Monitor Scale Factor = 125% When I open C# Class Importer in PB IDE it redraws at 100% while rest of screen remains at 125%. IDE Toolbar also displays at 125% and therefore overlap with menu ...
Michael Kramer Michael Kramer
  1. Beta Testing

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