Closing a .NET Application from PB 12.6
Good Day! Our current release, which is in development, is the first we are deploying as 64 bit. Our application opens a C#.NET application and, until we tried 64 bit, we could close any open instances...
View ArticlePB-12.5: Print Queue - Determine if print was successful from DW.
Is there a way to determine if what you requested to be printed from a DW, has in fact been printed? For example, we will be printing system generated labels which will we want to send to a local...
View ArticlePowerBuilder App runs slower when called by windows service
Hi there! We have an application that runs normally when called direct from command line or from explorer, but when called from a Windows Service it runs twice slower. When we call the application...
View ArticleConnectToNewObject Error -3
Hello, I have created a .net COM dll using C# which can be called from PB. I have also created a test PB application to test it out. All development work was done on my PC. My test app works great on...
View ArticleIs there any way to open the file which is saved in print manager through...
I don't want to open the print manager to print the file.I want to open the file through code once it is printed.
View ArticleDatawindow with SQL SubSelect? PB 12.5
Greetings All, I have an SQL query that works great. It does an outer join on several tables to allow one of our partners to manage their rates in our Affiliate Portal. As you can see in the attached...
View ArticleCreating pdf files in powerbuilder 12.1 classic on win 7
I'm trying to get the gnu ghostscript working on my win 7 (64-bit) machine.I installed gs860w32 and, tried to saveas a pdf in a couple of different ways dw_report.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.Method =...
View ArticleAppeon Mobile (SQLite): DW does not retrieve identities values after inserts
Hi All, Appeon 2015 Build 0366Local SQLite database I have a DW with a column defined as "Identity column" in the DW Painter. The column is defined in the SQLite DB as "INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY...
View ArticleW10 Open of Dialogs very slow
Hello together, PB 12.6 Build 4088. On one of my clients PC with Win10 all dialogs of my application open very slow.The software is installed local, data is loaded by network (1 GB, test of copying a...
View ArticleA novice question
I have a blob column in a data window, OLEdatabaseBLOB, that enables me to retrieve, update, and store an MS Word doc. If I hard code the key value in the key clause, works fine. If I switch to a...
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Ghostscript DW Saveas Printer V 9.19
Hi Guys ** Good News ** There is a new version of Ghostscript 64bit, version 9.19 http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html We have use this in setting up our PB environment on Windows 10 and it...
View ArticlePowerBuilder - TFS - Server Select
Working with PowerBuilder 12.6 Classic, and installed the MSSCCI provider for TFS, and seemed to work just fine connecting up to a test TFS server. So now I want to connect to the TFS production...
View ArticleAppeon Mobile: SQLite design update
Hi All, Which do you think could be the best form to detect and update the local SQLite database due to changes in tables (they have been added columns to a table, new tables...)? Can I force a new...
View ArticleBe a lazy but brilliant programmer - "Go straight to the point, always !" -...
After, a short introduction we will start to discuss of the first precept my teacher taught us : "Go straight to the point, always !" This of course seems obvious but we all know that it is one of the...
View ArticleBe a lazy but brilliant programmer - "Go straight to the point, always !" -...
In this part we will see how to be straight with our meetings : "Normally a good meeting should only consist of demonstrations to answer definitively pending questions.Therefore, it should be carefully...
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Be a lazy but brilliant programmer - "Be lazy, don't do things twice !"
Let continue with the third precept my teacher taught us :"Be lazy, don't do things twice !"This sentence can be a little ambiguous with the term "lazy" In fact, it means that :- When a specific need...
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Be a lazy but a brilliant programmer - Be the tortoise, not the hare in the...
"Be the tortoise, not the hare in the fable !" Was also one of the favorite precept of my teacher... This parable inspired from the famous Jean de la Fontaine's fable or Disney Classic (depending on...
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try... catch... around everything?
We're having troubles with application crashes, some are probably due to PowerBuilder itself, many are probably due to our code having issues under certain circumstances. So I have the following...
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Be lazy but brilliant programmer - Introduction
- "Be lazy but brilliant programmer !" It was the leitmotiv from one of my best data computing teacher when at was at school twenty five years ago ! You can imagine the surprise that was visible on the...
View Articlepowerbuilder 9 with oracle 11 ?
we currently use a powebuilder 9 application that connects to oracle 10g. i received a question if the same version of powerbuilder will work with oracle 11g - will it ?
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