Re: When I call datawindow.Saveas how do I limit the format?
Take a look at: PBDJ Feature: Custom Common Dialogs Using SetWindowsHookEx
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I am using PowerBuilder 12.5. I am maintaining PowerBuilder programs written years ago.I have a datawindow where the user enters search criteria for queries. Right now we are using a Sybase database...
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Hi Eric; FWIW: I would suggest wrapping that code up in a TRY..CATCH so that at least you can gracefully recover from the I/O error. No idea though what could be causing that. Maybe catching the...
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Hi Christine; This basically a DML conversion exercise between Sybase (T-SQL) and Oracle (PL-SQL). I would suggest consulting an Oracle DBA to see if there is an equivalent expression for the T-SQL...
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Hi Rich; If you are ever planning to use Appeon Web or Appeon Mobile in the future, I would personally recommend writing your own custom user objects to handle this. It will take a little...
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Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. It's not a catchable exception, already tried that. It's one of those faults where you get the microsoft windows yourapplication.exe has stopped working popup and it...
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Just a thought, but that printer name looks suspicious. Try getting rid of the leading \\ on it and see if it works.
View ArticlePowerBuilder 11.5.1 - Large Display Fonts problem (DPI)
We are having some issues with an app we develop when our customers change their Display Font size in Windows 7+ to either Medium 125% or Large 150%. I know this is a known issue around the version of...
View ArticleRe: Case Insensitive Searches: How is the datawindow.table.select string put...
How about using the upper (or lower) functions? E.g., select ....where upper(columname) like '%FARM%' And, of course, your code would uppercase the value entered by the user (invisibly if needed).
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I'm not an Oracle user, but a quick hunt on the net found this. According to the following article, you can turn on/off case sensitivity as you need it. geekzspot: cAsE iNsEnSiTiVe Oracle It says it's...
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The problem is that PowerBuilder supplies everything before the word 'like'. Here is the sequence of events:User types farm into the edit control for the column named name.User clicks out of that...
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Maybe there's a computed field in the DW and that's where you need to check. That maybe where you can access the column name and wrap it with upper() or lower().
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Hi Christine; BTW: the where clause is actually an ASE "mask" ('%[Ff][Aa][Rr][Mm]%') - which is the same basic functionality as the Edit Mask in the DataWindow. I don't think Oracle supports this...
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Hi Christine, The DataWindow.Table.Select contains the SELECT statement used to create the datawindow. It can be dynamically changed, though. You can put code on the SqlPreview event of the datawindow...
View ArticleSaveAs PDF not working
On Windows 7 64bit I am having trouble with SaveAs PDF. It works fine for PB9 but PB10 and higher fail. I have tried Ghostscript 8.71 and 9.00 32bit.
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Hello Roland, we had all sorts of trouble with this and tried several versions of Ghostscript with our PB 12.1. The only one we found that would work was 8.70. HTH, Paul
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That did the trick! They must have changed something in PB 10 that tied it to version 8.70 of Ghostscript.
View ArticleRe: Datawindow creation failure in PB 12.5.2 .net due \ escape character in...
The code samples that come with PB.Net work fine in the "migrated" version. However, that doesn't mean that every possible code path has been tested.
View ArticleRe: SAP PowerBuilder Classic 12.5 - Web application (window size)
WebForms was removed beginning with the 12.5.2 MR. So, where do we go from here (e.g. WebForms)?
View ArticleRe: Datawindow creation failure in PB 12.5.2 .net due \ escape character in...
If you are referring to the PFC examples released with the PB 12 .net PFC, it's not blatantly obvious, but the Window Services/Status bar example does not work.
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