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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
6 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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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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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
MessageBox() function taking lot of time
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Michael Kramer replied 4 years ago
6 replies
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Hi, I was checking our system for performance issue and found out that messagebox() takes relatively longer time. I am not sure what is causing this to take more time. Does anyone have any idea about it? Is there an alternative to messagebox?   T...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Eti Tiwari Eti Tiwari
  1. PowerBuilder
Changing IE Browser Tab Text for PowerServer web application
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Donald Clayton replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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I followed the instructions in the URL below to change the IE browser tab text and add an icon.  It worked great.  Howerver, the next time I deployed a change to PowerServer the custom tab text and icon I added got overwritten by a default (i.e. 'App...
  1.  PowerServer Web
Thomas Rolseth Thomas Rolseth
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
PowerBuilder 2019 and SVN source control
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
0 replies
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I'm using PowerBuilder 2019 R2 and Tortoise SVN 1.9.7 for a while and they work fine. Unfortunately, since few days I'm not able to view the connection settings of the SVN source control when right-clicking the workspace in the System Tree and selec...
Bernard Tchuente Bernard Tchuente
  1. PowerBuilder
Ribbon Bar XML in PowerServer
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi all; I am using PB 2019 R2 B2323 with either an Oracle 12g or 18 back end (we support both). I am trying to deploy the new ribbon bar in PowerServer (2019 Build 2170.00 64bit), using the XML file format. I am trying to figure out how to include t...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  PowerServer Web
Bryant Burnard Bryant Burnard
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
oracle materialized view & Powerbuilder
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Gimmy Susan replied 4 years ago
5 replies
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Hello. I created in Oracle DB one materialized view When developing the datawindows and selecting those View PB2017R2 responds to me: ORA-00936 Missing expression. I tried to browse from the db painter too. The system can not recover the c...
  1.  Oracle
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder PULL ( git )
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Gimmy Susan replied 4 years ago
3 replies
1976 views
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Good morning I have a strangeness in PB. Lets build the case: 1) The folder submitted to git in a clean state. I type git status. the system answers me: "nothing to commit, working tree clean" Very well. 2) I open PB and do a pull...
  1.  Git
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
RichText Edit control - Detect or Reset undo
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
I have a RTE and I am trying to prevent user from using the key board "cntrl-z" so that it does not clear out the RTE.  Scenario: Retrieve data from DataBase and paste it to the RTE control, that original paste I am guessing is being added to UNDO s...
David Vasconcelos David Vasconcelos
  1. PowerBuilder
Error in creating DB Profile in Powerbuilder 2019 by SQL Anywhere 12.
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Sir/Medom How are you? I am developing desktop applications in Powerbuilder since last 15 years. and Last I am working in PowerBuilder 10.5 and working smoothly and enjoying well. But now I was happy to hear about PowerBuilder 2019 by Appeon.  I ...
Muhammad Riaz Muhammad Riaz
  1. PowerBuilder
Powerbuilder , git & branch
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
4 replies
3014 views
0 votes
Good morning. I have a quirk with GIT / Kraken / VSTS Configuration: Program = Powerbuilder 2017R2 Client = GitKraken Repository = Visual Studio Team Service n ° Branch 2 = master, am60 Operation 1) I position myself on the Master bra...
  1.  Git
Gimmy Susan Gimmy Susan
  1. PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder for 2 versions of PowerServer
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
1512 views
0 votes
Hello All, I have a customer with PB2019 with a running mobile app with a PowerServer PB edition. now they decide to move part of the client server app to PowerServer WEB they have bought the PowerServer Web  it is posible to have the same PowerB...
Andres Slachevsky Andres Slachevsky
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Decompiler?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Is there something available from Appeon along the lines on a decompiler that can be used to extract PBW/PBL files from a previously compiled EXE?  We are needing to migrate some of our very old programs (Powerbuilder 7-9) to Powerbuilder 2019.  Is t...
Bryan Emerson Bryan Emerson
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 Execute SQL Server Stored Procedure with OUTPUT parameter
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Arnd Schmidt replied 4 years ago
6 replies
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I'm in the process of migrating our PB 12.5.2 applications to PB19. I'm using the SQLNCLI11 provider. Have just run into the following error upon executing a stored procedure. SQLDBCode 179SQLErrText:SQLSTATE = 42000Microsoft SQL Server Native Clien...
  1.  Output
  2.  PB Classic
  3.  SQL Server
  4.  Stored Procedure
Linda Kelty (Dudzic) Linda Kelty (Dudzic)
  1. PowerBuilder
Beware - test well before migration to 2019 R2 - I'll be back on this
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
3 replies
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1 vote
(edited) (edited again) Meanwhile in Didcot, UK .... Trying to test this great new feature of being able to call a .Net Dll the "easy way" with 2019 R2. It works great !!! But hey ... What happened to my windows no longer saving their resized size...
Miguel Leeuwe Miguel Leeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
Error when generated PBD in PB2019
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello everyone, I am trying to generate the PBD in PowerBuilder 2019 and the system shows me the error that is in the attached image.I have tried changing the name of the exe and the directory but it always shows me the same error.Am I doing somethin...
Fernando Leal Fernando Leal
  1. PowerBuilder
Slow performances of large string, possible workarounds ?
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hi   I have a log functionnality that reads data from a datawindow and concatenate it into a string. When the string gets fairly large the performance plumets. On my test case with 3600 lines in the DW ls_string += ls_added_data = 25 minutes ls...
François Rossignol François Rossignol
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 12.5 and the quarantine!
  1. Resolved
  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hi all! So we have been quarantined for a little over a month, no employee is allowed to access the physical work building for any reason. We have been given VPN access and RDP to our machines so that we can work from home. In the last couple days,...
John Raghanti John Raghanti
  1. PowerBuilder
Cannot UPGRADE PBv12/0 to 12.1 in Win10
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
Windows 10. 64 bit platformCitrix hosted VMMonday, 13-APR-2020Thanks to Armeen's suggestion onm y last question I was able to successfully install baseline PBv12.0, open up a workspace, connect to a database, and successfully run the application! Tha...
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Set rectangle visible = 1 in DataWindow dependent on row
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Marc James replied 4 years ago
2 replies
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Hello, I am having a bit of trouble setting a rectangle on a particular row visible = 1 , i will then need to set it visible = 0 after the mouse has moved off that row. The event that triggers this is is called mousemove (pbm_dwnmousemove). You can...
Marc James Marc James
  1. PowerBuilder
FileWrite 2019 R2
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
Hi..   I migrated an old application from 2017 , via 2019 to 2019 R2. None of the XML files we have will generate now using FileOpen(name,TextMode!,Write!). FileWrite all of a sudden returns -1. I works fine when changing to FileWriteEx. If the ...
  1.  File Access
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Bjarne Anker Bjarne Anker
  1. PowerBuilder
SQLOLEDB to MSOLEDBSQL datetime parameter issue
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 4 years ago
4 replies
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0 votes
PB 19 Build 2082 SQL SERVER 2017   Upgrading our driver from SQLOLEDB to MSOLEDBSQL and now get issues w/ SQL's DBPARAMBINDINFO.     PROBLEM: MSOLEDBSQL conflicts w/ the Now() function in that the driver only wants 3 milliseconds instead of No...
  1.  Database Driver
  2.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  3.  SQL Server
Darren Longenecker Darren Longenecker
  1. PowerBuilder

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