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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 2 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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  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
Upgrading Oracle 19c - PB2022 Build 1900
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Aurangzeb Qaimkhani replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hey guys, Our company is in process of upgrading to oracle v19c. is there any known dependencies, conflicts, and resolutions including oracle client Oracle database drivers version needed to upgrade PowerBuilder 2022 Build 1900 applications to orac...
Aurangzeb Qaimkhani Aurangzeb Qaimkhani
  1. PowerBuilder
Virus in application created by PB
  1. Issue
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Sivaprakash BKR replied 9 months ago
4 replies
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Question for Appeon team. I have a very small application developed in Powerbuilder 2022. When I check the exe file 'with "https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload" it detects 3 viruses:  - Gen:NN.ZexaF - Trojav.Genric@A1.89 - Suspicious.Low.Ml...
  1.  .EXE
Maymone Dahan Maymone Dahan
  1. PowerBuilder
ole.InserFile() failing with rc=-9
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
4 replies
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I am trying to add a .pdf file using the ole.InsertFile() function. It is returning a -9 (=Other error) I can open the .pdf file successfully in Adobe Acrobat and in Firefox so the file is valid. The .pdf file is on my C: drive. I can add other f...
Gene Kanten Gene Kanten
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow Saveas to Excel
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Ivan Aase replied 9 months ago
5 replies
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Hi, We are using saveas to excel from datawindow.  While doing so we want to the Datawindows column heading as heading text in Excel. Is there any way to achieve so ? As for now it's always the datatable (sql select) column name that is refered in...
Ivan Aase Ivan Aase
  1. PowerBuilder
PBX in 64 environment
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
6 replies
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0 votes
Hi everyone, i have a pbx library to intercept sap event in my powerbuilder application. I'm making migration my application to powerbuilder 2022 I have compiled my pbx in 32 environment and sdk pbini 2022, imported pbx into my application. If i ...
Riccardo Pasqualetti Riccardo Pasqualetti
  1. PowerBuilder
Obfuscate Code in Snapdevelop
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Which tool or extension is recommended by Appeon to obfuscate source code (Net Assembly) using Snapdevelop?
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  32-bit
  3.  Build
  4.  C#
  5.  Compiler
  6.  .NET 6.0
Fabio Pontel Fabio Pontel
  1. SnapDevelop
TX Text Control: SetFont, SetTab programmatically
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Hello all! I Asked already for years and years and I wonder what will happen with this:   In a rich text edit (TX Text Control) I insert a Text with rte_1.ReplaceText("text")   I would urgent need before inserting text: - a possibility to chang...
Bernhard Giesriegl Bernhard Giesriegl
  1. PowerBuilder
SmtpClient - GMX-Mailserver blocked Mail - Date not correct (RFC-5322)
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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I tried to use the new PB2022 R2 SmtpClient-Object. The Mail is blocked from "GMX Policy Restrictions". They told us, that the date-Format is incorrect (Date: Mo, 11 Dez 2023 19:55:39 +0100).I think it should be: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:55:39 +0100...
  1.  SMTPClient
Kim Gebek Kim Gebek
  1. PowerBuilder
LibraryImport
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Using the LibraryImport powerscript function. The code has worked for over 15 years and we have not made any changes to the code in years. Just upgraded from PB2021 to PB2022. The code continues to work in the IDE, but once compiled it does not work....
Rick Hiebert Rick Hiebert
  1. PowerBuilder
SMTPClient - wrong Creation Time in the header
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 9 months ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi all,Our customer informed us about an issue with SMTPClient. His recipients are receiving emails, which is fine, but they have the wrong creation time. Instead of today's date, it is set to 2023-1-12 and they complain about it. While testing, my...
Tomáš Podzimek Tomáš Podzimek
  1. PowerBuilder
signed PS launcher downloads from web and gets flagged as possible problem
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  mike S replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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We sign the launcher, but we dont' use the super expensive Extended Validation Code due to hardware requirements (must be on a fob or similar).  As a result, edge goes out of its way to try to prevent users from downloading and installing the launche...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
Conversion of UTF8 byte array into characters using EncodingUTF8 in PB2019 failed
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Hello everyone! I failed when using string(blob(lb_arr), EncodingUTF8!) to convert the byte array of "?" symbol into characters. The following is my code // UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x89 0x82 byte lb_arr[] = {240,159,137,130} string ls_1 = strin...
  1.  Encoding
  2.  PowerBuilder
ma jack ma jack
  1. PowerBuilder
Best approach for using merge and Save
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  1. Last updated 11 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
1 reply
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Hi All, We have more than 200 psr files and need to generate pdf based out of them using datastore, Along with this we have a scenario where we need to merge 2 psr’s for each pdf (i.e. 100 pdf files to be created out of 200 psr’s). we are storing t...
Teegala Rajesh Teegala Rajesh
  1. PowerBuilder
datawindow picture control transparentcolor property
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Konstantin Goldobin replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how to use the transparentcolor property of a datawindow picture control. I think it was introduced in 11.5 but was not documented in 12.5 or even 2017. When I set it to a regular calculated RGB value in the pa...
  1.  DataWindow
  2.  Picture
  3.  PowerBuilder
Konstantin Goldobin Konstantin Goldobin
  1. PowerBuilder
Composite: Retrieve Nested Report with a nested report
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Bernhard Giesriegl replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hi all, I have a composite datawindow with a nested report in it. This nested report itself contains another nested report. 1 In Desgner preview everything is fine. But running the program, when I do a retrieve on this datawindow nothing is displa...
Bernhard Giesriegl Bernhard Giesriegl
  1. PowerBuilder
Web Application and Mobile Apps using Power Builder 2019 R3 or Power Builder 2021
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 2 years ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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Hi, I wish to make some Web and Mobile app (Android and iOS) for customers to login and check their balances etc.  Is is possible using Power Builder? I am currently using Power Builder 2019 R3. However, I can upgrade to Power Builder 2021. Your a...
Falguni Patel Falguni Patel
  1. PowerBuilder
PS application ran fine, then suddenly won't run.
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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PS2022R2 build 2828  running on windows 11 HOME computer disable AV, which did not help.   user no longer able to open up files (possibly the directories?) from PS.  ran fine for a week or so, no updates to the application, so it isn't failing on ...
mike S mike S
  1. PowerServer
Differences between 2021 Powerserver project and 2022
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
6 replies
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0 votes
I'm trying to deploy a new project using PB 2022, and the PowerServer project configuration is totally different.  Never used it before and trying to build one by scratch.  Under 2021, I cant find the Client Configuration.  I'm wanting to deploy to m...
billy hugon billy hugon
  1. PowerBuilder
Datawindow retrieve timeout issue in Web API
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  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
3 replies
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Hi, everyone! In client/server, a retrieve on a specific datawindow takes less than 1 second to execute, but in the same PowerServer cloud app it does not finish fetching the information and, after several seconds, a timeout error message displays. ...
Miguel Alzate Miguel Alzate
  1. PowerServer
Old PowerBuilder 12.5 DLL - WebService SOAP
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 9 months ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 9 months ago
2 replies
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I have a DLL file generated in PowerBuilder 12.5 (accesses SOAP webservice) I would like to convert this DLL file to PowerBuilder 2022 R2. It is possible?
Ivan Ramalho Ivan Ramalho
  1. PowerBuilder

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