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PB WebForms and IE11 workaround

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Hi all,

 

As a part of our main product, we have a very small web app developed in PB 11.5 WebForms target. I know that WebForms is an old feature and is depreciated, that's why we are trying to move to Appeon.

 

In the mean time we need a way to keep this app running with IE10, IE11, etc. Setting "compatibility view" works but we can't keep this configuration fixed in IE. For some reason users need to add the site in the compatibility list from time to time.

 

Has anybody found a workaround ?

 

Best regards,

 

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AUS Julián Tagarro

NeoSistemas SRL


What is the best Windows 8.1 "flavor" for running PB 12.6?

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I have the trial PB 12.6 running on a Windows 7Pro laptop with moderate capability.  The Classic IDE runs OK, but there are some performance issues showing up.  This laptop is probably best used for traveling demos of my apps.  I'm going to throw in the towel and go to Windows 8.1 on a new machine, but which variant of that is best?  Home Premium, Professional or something I don't even know about?  Any other advice, like memory or video considerations, is greatly appreciated.  Keep in mind I'm basically a tax accountant and will fall off the technical discussion table pretty quickly...

Appeon - Printing

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Greetings All,


One of the most annoying things about PowerBuilder Webforms was the inability to print. So I always had to send a PDF file in order to allow my users to print something.


Is it possible that with the advent of Appeon there is a way to simply do dw_1.print()?  I tried it and it did not work, but I am working remotely, so it is possible that it did not 'here' but it printed to my local network printer.


Does anyone know if that works?


Thanks!!


Paul

Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference - 2015

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The North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group (ncpbug.org), Appeon Corporation and Novalys are pleased to announce the 2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference to be held on May 6-7-8 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  As with the successful inaugural event in 2014, the focus of the conference is the unparalleled Rapid Application Development tool PowerBuilder

 

As part of the PowerBuilder World Tour, the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference brings the latest news and information on all things Appeon and PowerBuilder. Appeon will have product experts available to present the latest product roadmap and answer questions on current and future plans for the product. This is your opportunity to have your questions answered and see Appeon Mobile first hand.

 

Learn how to quickly modernize and extend your PowerBuilder applications with Web, Mobile, and Cloud technologies from Appeon Corporation. See how to upgrade the look and feel of traditional PB apps with new GUI components and internationalization tools available from Novalys. Attend sessions on current GUI design and application development from industry veterans. Workshops on topics such as stored procedure debugging, getting the most out of your source control system, and the 'how tos' of working with application frameworks are in the mix right now.

 

More than fifty hours of PowerBuilder specific content is planned for the Conference.  You will not find a better PowerBuilder value for your hard earned dollars anywhere in North America.  Pre-registration for the three day event is only $295 - that's 40% off the normal registration price of $495.

 

 

Call for Session Abstracts

 

Now is your chance to 'feed' the PowerBuilder Community by presenting a session at the conference. As a whole we can only get stronger by coming together and sharing ideas, know-how, and experiences. Showcase your achievements in front of your peers - help us all grow through exposure to new thinking updated ideas.

 

Session length may be either 60, 90, or 120 minutes. Demo type presentations should be limited to sixty minutes; in depth technical discussions or detailed analysis/examples would be more appropriate for a 90 or 120 minute slot.

 

Sessions need to be educational and technically focused. Intermediate level topics are encouraged.

 

Speakers must be available to present during the entire span of the conference (May 6-8, 2015). We offer complimentary registration to approved speakers.

 

Deadline for submission is December 1, 2014. Notifications will be sent out by December 8th.

 

 

Go to www.ncpbug.organd submit your session idea today!

powerfilter & appeon

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powerfilter claims to be Appeon compatible.  But it isnt'.

 

Has anyone used it with appeon?  I'm guessing an earlier version may have worked?

outlook question

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Hi all ,

 

I want to save into a table an outlook message as file ( the file's path) , how do i do that quick and easy for the user ?

(my table saves all kind of files ,  path + file name and opens it with the according program )

 

working with pb 12.5 classic with sqlanywhere 11 , MsSql.

 

Thanks

 

Moshe

dw.object.datawindow.data.htmltable in PowerBuilder .Net 12.5

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Hi!

 

Need some help again

 

On previous developments in PB10.5 I used the property dw.object.datawindow.data.html as the content of an email with complete success.

 

Now I'm trying to do exactly the same but with PB .Net and if I use dw.object.datawindow.data.html it doesn't work completely, not all formats (bold text for example), and changes text order, even when on preview everything looks good.   If I tried dw.object.datawindow.data.htmltable I'm getting '?' as return :'( but only on runtime 'cause in the preview everything is pretty.

 

I'm using Lotus Notes as sender (I always have), and the MailMessage class from .Net and its IsBodyHtml property as TRUE.

Generating a setup file for a webservice

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Hi ,

 

Iam just wondering : why always there is no sufficient resources when it comes to Powerbuilder & .Net/Web

 

For my case I've created a simple web service to retrieve some data , it works well on my PC . and now all I need is creating a setup file for it ,so I can deploy it on a server .

when I tried it failed to create setup file , no more errors or details !!!!

 

 

Iam using PB 11.5 . and I search for any similar cases on web but no luck .

 

I hope anyone could help on this .


PB 12.6 64-Bit Windows Applications - Grid Table unsupported

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I was reading this article on deploying 64-Bit applications with PB 12.6 and I was puzzled by one of the items listed in the unsupported features.

 

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_pb126/helpdata/en/2f/8c548ab5781014944b973cfbb2dec1/content.htm?frameset=/en/2f/8c548ab5781014944b973cfbb2dec1/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/2f/16f291b5781014af9ce45f1ca8d7d2/plain.htm&node_id=12

 

Can I get further details on the "Grid table" item listed under unsupported features?

 

Is this regarding the Grid section for grid datawindows?  If so, what exactly isn't supported in 64-Bit?

 

Regards,

Mike

 

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_pb126/helpdata/en/2f/8c548ab5781014944b973cfbb2dec1/content.htm?frameset=/en/2f/8c548ab5781014944b973cfbb2dec1/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/2f/16f291b5781014af9ce45f1ca8d7d2/plain.htm&node_id=12

A datawindow grid question

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Hi all ,

 

I have a grid data window populate with rows .

 

After the user did some sorting , filtering , changed the columns ( I let him choose which columns to be displayed ) , I want to print it ( but not to do a retrieve again , or RowsCopy() after all the choices he made ) , but now I want to add a text label on the top ( the header band ) .

 

I am using  dw.modify()  ( I have copied the exact syntax from the srd file of the object ) , but the text does not appear as I want it to be .

 

Is There any other way to accomplish that ?

 

Thanks ,

 

Moshe

using ftp with a command file as run("ftp -s" + file attachement")

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The executing file stop in the command ascii on

MS Web Browser OLE object error

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Hi,

 

I'm on PB 10.2.1 b9799 and Win 7 64 bits, IE 10. I'm opening an internal site using the MS OLE web browser which works pretty good  except when the data displayed contains aposthrophes. For example "O'Hara". If I navigate using IE manually, I don´t see the error. Has anyone found something similar? Any config required for the OLE object?

 

I must say, this happens when retrieving a table that contains multiple columns and one of them has the apostrophe in it

 

 

Thanks in advance!

PowerBuilder Classic 12.5.2 will not open

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I am a sys admin who was tasked with installing PowerBuilder 12.5.2 on several Windows 7 developer workstations on our network.  The first two went great - I downloaded the 12.5.2 software and installed the purchased standalone license, and everything appears to work beautifully.  On the third workstation, the developer already had PowerBuilder 10.5 installed, and didn't want to take it off because he was still using it for some of his applications.  He said that he read articles that verified that you can install the two versions side by side.  So I went ahead and installed it the same way I did with the first two.  It appeared to be a successful install, but when I or the user clicks on PowerBuilder Classic 12.5, the application does not open.  There is no error message, and nothing in the Event Viewer on the machine.  When we click on PowerBuilder .NET 12.5, the application opens just fine.  Is there something I need to do to make all of the 12.5 applications work side by side with 10.5?

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

 

Tracy Laugle

ORCA crashing, are there things to look for in code?

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Hello,

 

I am automating our build process and I am using Roland Smith's PBORCAPI.dll and PBSCCAPI.dll products (nice job Roland).  Anyhow...  I have PBDs working, but DLLs crash.  I know it isn't the Roland's code libraries nor my build code, because the POWERGEN demo fails at the same PBL/DLL as does Roland's sample app.  I am assuming there is something in the code (the application being build, not the build process code) that is causing the issue.  Are there known issues or things to avoid?  The application is currently running under 9.0.2 7509 and deploys fine to PBDs and DLLs from within PowerBuilder.  Any ideas?

 

Thanks in Advance,

Christopher

A retrieve question

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Hi all ,

 

I am retrieve which can take about a minute or two .

How do I make my rows show in dw and wait for all of them to be  retrieved from DB ?

I want to make the feel to the user that the retrieve works and he can start see rows

I tried to mark RowsAsNeeded but it does seem to affect what I want to see

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Moshe


Getting the Handle of the DW Edit control to pass to a spell checker

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Hello all,

I'm currently tasked with implementing 'As You Type' spell checking on DataWindow char(xxx) columns.

3rd party ActiveX or DLL spell checkers can implement 'As You Type' checking if you provide them with the handle of an edit control.  I can successfully implement this feature on MultilineEdit controls (not to mention RTEs).  One vendor's tool can even red line misspelled works in a PB MLE and has a neat API that suggests replacements!

 

But implementing for a DWO Edit has so far eluded me. Objects in a DW are not window controls. The DW is basically a bit map with an edit control (or 2) floating over the picture.  There is no API to get the handle of the edit control within the DW.

 

One approach I tried was to sync the DW Edit control with a the text property of registered MLE in the EditChanged event.  Unfortunately the activeX does not see the text changing through an assignment statement as it does when the control has focus and is receiving keyboard input.  (My guess is that the spell checker registers itself as a keyboard event listener on the edit control)

 

Yes I know it is possible to spell check the contents of strings - or to grab the contents of a DWO edit control and pass it to a spell checker dialog - but that is not the desired behavior.

 

Therefor I'm looking for a way to get the handle of the Edit control and register it with the spell checking service.

 

---Anybody?

 

 

In this screen shot you can see that I've successfully implemented for MLE but the spell checker doesn't see the text when it is assigned from the DW

 

 

---I'm open to an alternate approach if anyone can suggest a tried and true method

 

Thanks,

 

Yakov

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Image on MDI Frame

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Anyone else have an issue where putting a picture control on the MDI frame window prevents other windows from showing?  PB 12.5 Classic using the PFC framework.  The picture control does not have to contain a picture, it just has to exist.  Windows are being opened via the menu (I can tell as they're added to the list of open windows) but not being shown.

Not able to create executable

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Hi

 

We are currently working on migration of an application from pb9 to pb12.5.

 

The migration process was successfully completed and we were able to run the application in pb12.5. But when we try to create the executable file for the application, we get an error message 'Creation of Executable failed' . The errors tab listed the following errors: 'Undefined variable' and 'Unknown function name'.

 

We are also unable to open the window which contain these errors. Any help on how to proceed from here and generate exe for this application will be highly appreciated.

 

Attached is the screenshot of the error tab for reference.

 

Thanks in advance

PowerFilter Issues with 12.6

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Has anyone had an issue with PowerFilter not getting the display value from Drop Down columns?  Everything looks correct when it creates the computed columns with the LookUpDisplay() call but when it goes to get the value it returns blank.  I even changed the code to show all the columns it creates and they all display correctly in the DW but the GetItemString still returns blank when it goes to populate the list.  Trying to figure out if it is a 12.6 issue with computes created with a Modify or something else.

 

Also - I am running PB 12.6 on a Windows 8.1 machine...

 

Thanks,

Chris Craft

Powerbuilder 12.5 database connectivity issue

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Hello,

 

We are trying to migrate our application from powerbuilder 9 to 12.5. The migration and compilation of files from the previous version is completed successfully. We have also been able to run the application with the database connnectivity.

 

However, the application does not run in a specific scenario. When we load the workspace first and then make the database connection we are not able to successfully run the migrated application and we face the following error:

"Oracle 10g is not installed or Oracle10g is not Primary Oracle Home on your machine".

On debugging we found that this error is thrown at the following line ' Connect using SQLCA'.

 

On the other hand, if we make the database connection first on opening PB12.5 and then load the workspace and try to run the application, it runs successfully.

 

We thought the error message that appears in the first case does not make much sense as Oracle 10g is installed on the machine and the path is set appropriately and also given the fact that  the application runs when the database connection in performed first.

 

We are pretty much clueless as to why we face this issue. Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

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