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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 4 months 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 3 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
duplicate error 'DataWindow' attribute
- Advice
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
Hi, my name is David from Sapin.
I have a error when i start the 'run' server. The error is 'duplicate error 'DataWindow' attribute'. I will need help to resolve this. If there anypeople that had the same or similar error.
Thank you.
Hi all,
I have an issue with inkpicture control.
this is the scenario.
I put a inkpicture control over a window.
I will use it to save signature from the user.
the thing is when the window opens as the only window in the mdi frame it's working ...
The new WebBrowser Control and missing runtime dlls
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
Hello,
I'm using the excellent "new" WebBrowser Control introduced in PB2019 R2. (https://docs.appeon.com/pb2019r2/whats_new/ch01s05.html) It works like a charm when I run it in Powerbuilder, but not in our compiled .exe + pbd project.I suspect one ...
Hi Guys
We are using PBNISMTP downloaded from TopWiz (latest version). We are getting an when attempting to send an email. The error is a messagebox from the PBNISMTP code:
Could not send message: Error: 8007007B
Description: The filename, directo...
Hi, I need to call an external function from a dll that user pointers to BSTR datatype as arguments to return results. I haven't found an equivalent datatype so far (PB 11.2, 12.6). Is there any workaround in Appeon PB?
Is PowerBuilder 2022 incompatible with PowerBuilder 2017?
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
We have been stuck with version 2017 of PowerBuilder because every recent version of PowerBuilder has caused random crashes in our application.
During recent testing after migrating our main client application to PowerBuilder 2022 it became evident ...
ApplyTheme always returning -1 in production environment
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Robert Carlson replied 1 year ago
Hello all.
We recently updated our software to use the new PB UI themes. Our customers haven't had any problems with this working in production, except for one group of customers who are using Windows Server 2016 to host , and RDS to connect to the ...
Web api to send email with attachment from client computer.
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Shaji Markose replied 1 year ago
Hi Appeon team,
I am trying to send a file from my powerbuilder client application to the web API (snapdevelop) from where to send an email with the file as an attachment. I would appreciate if any body can help me with example codes. The file for...
How to get a modern version of GetFolder()
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
Hi,
How can I get a modern windows 10/11 version of the getfolder dialog box and not the one from 1999 :-)
Thanks Steen
Save datawindow data as PDF file using NativePDF
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hi,
I am using Powerbuilder 2019 R3. My question is: Does Powerbuilder rely on default printer driver or any printer driver on the local computer to generate the PDF file in the following code ?
dw_1.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.NativePDF.UsePrint...
How to Change Auto Login password and regain access to Pb 2022
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
Running: Pb 2022 on:
Lenovo-Ideapad3Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHzInstalled RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorNo pen or touch input.
Hard disk crashed and was r...
PowerServer 2022 Session Error/Timeout
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Logan Liu @Appeon replied 1 year ago
We recently migrated a PB 2019 application to 2022 and also deployed it to PowerServer. It's been working very well. However, one user reported an issue recently. The user stated that the app was started and used without issue for a while. It was...
PB 2017 - GitHub is cloning the old non-updated PBL - this is understandable but . . . It doesn't seem to let me "UPLOAD PBL" to get a fresher copy to the GitHub server. I' can "Upload PBL" but I don't see it updated on GitHub.
PB 2019 lets us "Refr...
Re: ImportJSONByKey fails on compiled project
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Matt Balent replied 1 year ago
Hello,
PB 2022 B 1892
In one of my projects, ImportJSONByKey fails to import data when run from exe. The same JSON string imports successfully when run from the IDE. The command used to import JSON is
li_rc = ids_setup.ImportJSONByKey(ls_ret_jso...
What is the default height of toolbars?
Can they be changed?
PowerBuilder 2021 build 1506
Windows 10 Enterprise.
Creating objects by string
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
I know that there is the OpenUserObject function that allows creating a userobject variable where the object name is in a string.
I want to do it with non-visual userobjects and OpenUserObject only works with dragobject (visual) and the parent must ...
Hi. I'm having an issue with an edit that we've added to a pb window.
The window has 2 datawindows. We've added code to itemchanged to validate, but this code only fires if I tab off the field, or click on another field on THAT datawindow. If we...
Multiple emails are sent using WEB API
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- LeVerne Johnson replied 1 year ago
We are using a WEB API to send email out to recipients with attachments. But, the recipients are getting the same email several times. The application loops through a table to extract the email addresses.
Any suggestions or help?
GetAdaptersAddresses - anyone have this coded for powerscript?
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- John Fauss replied 1 year ago
Roland (topwizprogramming.com) has sample code for the older version (for windows versions prior to XP) which is: GetAdaptersInfo
that older version does not have all the information available that GetAdaptersAddresses has (ipV6 in particular)
Ge...
I was attempting to follow the tutorial in PB2022 for PowerServer, using the Sales Demo app. The PowerServer project painter apparently only recognizes Sql Anywhere (ODBC) data source names if they are set up with the 64 bit ODBC Data Source Administ...
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