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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 4 months 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
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 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
PB development on a Mac using a VM host
  1. Advice
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Glenn Barber replied 1 year ago
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Do anyone know of any PB developers using macs with a VM host like Parallels? I've been trying it with no issues so far. I'm tired of carrying around two machines.
william french william french
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EXE is crashing while editing text in text control in PB2022
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
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Hello there, While editing text for any activity my application is crashing (EXE) whereas launching application from IDE is working good. my word processor is text control and created this EXE recently from PB2022 Build 1878. Thanks Vijay Jha
Vijay Jha Vijay Jha
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Trying powerserver from powerbuilder 2022
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  mike S replied 1 year ago
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Hi, I have managed to successfully execute the entire process to migrate my application to Powerverser with PB2022. From the client, I verified that it executes the first instructions but it generates the following error when connecting to the datab...
Menna Pablo Javier Menna Pablo Javier
  1. PowerServer
Any plan to introduce digital signing of PDF file(s) created
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  2. Misc
  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Andreas Mykonios replied 1 year ago
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Hello, Need to sign the pdf file created through PowerBuilder.   Is there any plan to introduce this feature in current/future versions of PowerBuilder?   If not, any suggested alternate ways to sign the document? Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash ...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
  1. PowerBuilder
How to enable TLS 1.2 in PowerBuilder 2019 R3
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 1 year ago
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Hi, We are using the PB2019 R3 with MSOLEDBSQL Driver. We are going to enable TLS 1.2. Do we need to make any code changes in PowerScript? or there is also Encrypt=1 in DBParm; is that okay for enabling TLS 1.2? Could you let us know how exactly w...
Rajesh Kannan Natesan Rajesh Kannan Natesan
  1. PowerBuilder
httpclient
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
3 replies
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Trying to replace inet with httpclient   What is the equivalent to GetURL()     ---   Is it SEndRequest('GET',...) HyperlinkToURL   Thank You
Sufyan Maghur Sufyan Maghur
  1. PowerBuilder
Help with C# Datatype / Function Call
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 year ago
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Hi Community,we use a third party OLE-Control to sign PDF-Documents, what basically works well.I have trouble using a particular method of the control, i can't find the correct datatype in Powerscript for the argument searchresult/pstruct .Every call...
André Monz André Monz
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Missing Insert Object menu
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  SHAMEEM KAKKAD replied 1 year ago
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Why this menu disable ?
SHAMEEM KAKKAD SHAMEEM KAKKAD
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LoadWithDotNetCore Error -19 in production
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  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  David Peace (Powersoft) replied 1 year ago
2 replies
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Hi Guys I'm getting an erro -19 trying to load a Dot Net DLL using LoadWithDotNetCore. The customer has installed Dot Net 3.1 See below: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600](c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.C:\Users\david.peacedot...
  1.  .NET Core 3.1
David Peace (Powersoft) David Peace (Powersoft)
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2021 wants to add pbdom.pbd etc. using subversion (svn)
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
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when i perform an SVN Commit on a target, PB 2021 always wants to add (!) the sybase pbd's included in the project. Even though they are included in subversion already.
Olaf Bönning Olaf Bönning
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pbvm80.dll ERROR
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 1 year ago
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Migrating an application from PowerBuilder 8 and getting an error message about accessing an EXTERNAL function pfc_printdlg (pbvm80.dll) even though the .dll is in the directory
Sufyan Maghur Sufyan Maghur
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JWE
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 1 year ago
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Hi, there! Does anybody know how to implement JWE (JSON Web Encryption) with Powerbuilder? Hope it can be done!
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerBuilder
How to read and interpret .dmp files created by a PowerBuilder app crash?
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Igor Perisic replied 1 year ago
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Hi,  I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for help regarding .dmp files. I have one app in production that crashes once in a blue moon and I can't reproduce it because I don't know what causes this type of crash. Which is what lead me to r...
  1.  Crash
  2.  PowerBuilder
Igor Perisic Igor Perisic
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Validate Email
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Mark Goldsmith replied 1 year ago
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Hello, I have need help on how to validate the email entered by the user. Am using free form. with kind regards,
mathews rutto mathews rutto
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Oracle question
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
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Hi,  I'm trying to do this in Oracle: SELECT T.emm  FROM (select '​abc' as emm from dual) T where T.emm = 'abc' ORDER BY T.emm;   I get no rows.  When I leave out the WHERE phrase it works. Anyone any idea on why? I've also tried the same th...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
rich text data window
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 1 year ago
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i need to make text from right to left at rich text data window at pb12.6 at the picture you see half of words only and others out of range
mahmoud mahmoud mahmoud mahmoud
  1. PowerBuilder
How to implement WS Security with httpclient
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
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Hello, I searched the forum but only found several years old topics, so I ask again :-) ! How to implement WS-SECURITY in PB 2019 (or 2021/2022), to invoke a webservice using SOAP WS-Security Authentication ? Thank you ! Pierre
Pierre Couvreur Pierre Couvreur
  1. PowerBuilder
Why the image is not shown on the report when I run the report on Famous?
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Joizeth Waldmann replied 1 year ago
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Hello you all! I want to show the logo on a report, however it is shown only when I run the report from my computer. When other user tries to run the report the logo is not shown on the report. This are the steps I am following on Infomaker, 1. In...
  1.  InfoMaker
Joizeth Waldmann Joizeth Waldmann
  1. InfoMaker
Application is not moving around the screen
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
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When the application (MDI) is run it is docked to the upper left corner of the screen and cannot be moved around. How do I allow users to move it around screen (floating instead of docked)? Also Word based spell check popup comes behind the open appl...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
galina buslovich galina buslovich
  1. PowerBuilder
Fatal Disk Error. possible code solution?
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
3 replies
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We have the standard Fatal Disk Error in some of our client sites. Not all experience this, and it is from previous posts related entirely to disk share loading. If we change the code so that at start-up it created global variables from objects in ...
kevin kevin rowe kevin kevin rowe
  1. PowerBuilder

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