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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
Migrating from PB2017 to PB2019 while still having to support production issues
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 4 years ago
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Good morning,We are close to moving to PB2019 and are looking for the best scenario to do so. Specifically, as it relates to having to simultaneously support the PB2017 that's currently in production. I'm under the impression that as soon as I downlo...
Steven Turner Steven Turner
  1. PowerBuilder
while converting blob to string im getting some symbols
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  backya ayyappan replied 4 years ago
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Hi, Recently i have migrated PB 8 to 19 version. In code im getting symbols while converting blob to string.So i have converted to encodingANSI! format in many places.. it is working fine.but in one place im struggling. please help me. //sItemDIN =...
backya ayyappan backya ayyappan
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PB 2019 R2 .Net Runtime .MSI
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
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Hi everyone, I know .Net Targets are obsolete in PowerBuilder. One of our colleagues wrote a .Net WebService in PowerBuilder 2019 R2, but we didn't find the .Net Runtime under C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\PowerBuilder 19.0\DotNET\pbiu\BootStrapper\...
Stephan Daschek Stephan Daschek
  1. PowerBuilder
DW Retrieve error - 1
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  René Ullrich replied 4 years ago
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PB2019R2, b2328Windows 10, 64 bit platform32 bit application comprised of a single PBLNo PFCSummary:  Why in the world is the retrieval failing?Details:This is the first app we are testing using PB2019R2, so please forgive me if I'm making dumb RTFM ...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Error de Conexión MYSQL cuando se despliega en la WEB
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Kai Zhao @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Buenas Noches  Recientemente estamos trabajando con base de datos en MYSQL y hemos migrado nuestra aplicación a la WEB pero muestra el siguiente mensaje de error, cuando lo probamos en el IDE de PB  con ODBC no tenemos problemas. FUENTE DE DATOS AE...
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  3.  PowerServer Web
  4.  Web Extensions
YTALA EP YTALA EP
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Response Window Problem When Closing The Fram
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Migrating from PB9 to PB2019 The closequery event of my sheet ancestor calls a response window prompting the user to save changes if the datawindow has been modified. This works when I close the sheet. However, when the sheet is open and I close the...
Joe Hess Joe Hess
  1. PowerBuilder
SaveAs XLSX! - error
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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We have recently changed our datawindow savas methods to XLSX! from Excel8! This works fine except for one report. It is an external datawindow and when we save it as XLSX! it then throws an error: We are looking for an answer and haven't been able...
  1.  Excel
Steve DeWitt Steve DeWitt
  1. PowerBuilder
SnapDevelop handling complex return types for call to C#
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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So I have a C# dll I am already calling from PowerBuilder by compiling it as an Active/X control. Most calls return a class containing a number of variables and the PowerBuilder .Net Dll Importer can't handle these, ignoring them completely. So this...
  1.  SnapDevelop
Aron Cox Aron Cox
  1. SnapDevelop
What exactly is the behaviour of /i (incremental) compiler flag?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
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I am trying to streamline our build process and in particular preventing as much as possible full rebuilds. In our CI we use pbc190 compiler to compile from source code. What I observe is that even when I use the /i flag instead of /f, thus expecting...
Arnaud Bailly Arnaud Bailly
  1. PowerBuilder
.net importer tool
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi there Is there any more information available on using the .net importer tool, any example work throughs or anything like that= showing from start to finish importing and using would be awesome Has anyone successfully used it and got an example ...
  1.  .NET Assembly
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
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handling transaction time outs
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi,  I think i am missing something quite simple here so hopefully someone will be able help. What is the best approach to handling the transaction time out on powerserver web I have an application that works perfectly, but if the user enters all ...
  1.  PowerServer Web
Andrew Davis Andrew Davis
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
NativePDF reduces PNG image quality
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Tobias Roth replied 4 years ago
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I've got a logo of my local government organization from www.cab.lt and I want to use in a datawindow print form, however when I try to export it using NativePDF image gets all pixelated and I can not find a way keep the quality.  Initial image: ...
  1.  NativePDF
  2.  PowerBuilder
Valdas Vaitiekaitis Valdas Vaitiekaitis
  1. PowerBuilder
What does pbresmon***.exe do?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Hi, I've been trying to figure out what pbresmon190.exe does exactly. Can anybody point me to where I can find documentation on how to use it? Thank you.
Kirby Cemanes Kirby Cemanes
  1. PowerBuilder
ENTER key stops working properly in datawindow
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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We are seeing intermittent issues with PB 2019 R2 where the Enter key in the datawindow stops working.  Normally hitting Enter will change row for user, but in this example it triggers LoseFocus instead of RowFocusChanging event.  It is intermittent ...
Brian Greiman Brian Greiman
  1. PowerBuilder
book for powerbuilder 2019
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
6 replies
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Hi  This William Yau from Hong Kong, I would like ask where I can buy powerbuilder 2019 book. I cannot find any powerbuilder 2019 book on Amazon site.    best regards   William    
william yau william yau
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Zero-byte file lands on FileServer 'Landing Pad'
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  CJ Lai replied 4 years ago
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Hi I have set a 'landing pad' in the appeonfileserver.xml per this post - https://bit.ly/2VH8Y8W The path is set to a C:\temp\ on the very same server. When my web app is run on the server's browser, the file server downloads a file from a differe...
CJ Lai CJ Lai
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
EnCrypt / DeCrypt
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Jure Gornjak replied 4 years ago
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Dear PB programmers,I have been successfully using data encryption / decryption functions for a long time and entering them into the SQL database.I wanted to do the same thing by writing the encrypted data to the Registry (RegistrySet), but in some c...
Jure Gornjak Jure Gornjak
  1. PowerBuilder
Terminal Service Printing PowerBuilder 2019
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Good Morning!I have a local machine with a thermal printer (Dieboold), printing normally when I am locally, but when the user using the system via TS on a Windows Server 2016, it gives a printing error (communication error).Could you help me solve th...
marco gaspar marco gaspar
  1. PowerBuilder
EL COLOR Y LOS ICONOS DE LOS MENÚS NO APARECEN CUANDO SE DESPLIEGA EN LA WEB
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Govinda Lopez @Appeon replied 4 years ago
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Buenos Días  He desplegado mi aplicación en la web pero veo que los iconos de menús no aparecen ni el color tampoco , cuando lo ejecute con el power IDE no tengo problemas. Se tiene que hacer una configuración adicional?  EJECUTO CON EL POWER IDE ...
  1.  PowerBuilder
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  WebBrowser
YTALA EP YTALA EP
  1. PowerBuilder
When double-clicking PBW, PB dies with "Attempt to open DataWindow failed"
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Matt Kulka replied 4 years ago
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I'm running Powerbuilder 2017 R3 build 1880.  I can open Powerbuilder the standard way, by clicking the icon.  But if I go to Windows Explorer and double-click a PBW, PB starts to open but then gives an error "Attempt to open DataWindow failed."  I a...
Matt Kulka Matt Kulka
  1. PowerBuilder

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