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PowerBuilder Troubleshooting Guide
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How to solve the low performance of processing strings
PowerBuilder application crashes when it uses too much memory
The negative impact of Accessibility on application performance
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Installation & license
PowerBuilder/InfoMaker Installer fails to download files
What to do if PowerBuilder/InfoMaker installer is blocked by anti-virus software?
DLLs fail to register when upgraded from PB 2017 R3 Build 1880 to Build 1915
Failed to install the updated Appeon Installer
How to download offline installer
Cannot log in to PowerBuilder, session already logged in
How to install an older version
Failed to create the Appeon PB installation log file
DataWindow
The event GetFocus is not triggered in DataWindows controls if their tab-order is set to 0
Retrieving a DataWindow using stored procedure causing 'String data, right truncation' error
How to add a URL link to a column in a DataWindow
Background Color doesn't display in composite DataWindow if using an expression in the detail band
DataWindow hangs temporarily after retrieve
How to display Date and Time columns using the Windows Regional Settings
Failed to SaveAs Excel 12 when there is any empty row in the DataWindow
Autosize Width of Grid DataWindow columns does not work
DataWindow 'like' filter does not work if it is not placed last in the list of filters or within parenthesis
Accessibility causes slow performance or crash to the application
DataWindow hangs temporarily after retrieve
Row changed between retrieve and update
Rows lost after deletion when HSplitScroll property is enabled
DataWindow recovery from an unexpected transaction disconnect PB
PowerBuilder appears to hang when using older rich-text templates with input fields
DataWindow data are corrupted when original buffer is assigned to current buffer
Adding retrieval argument causes "Column 2 has an invalid name and/or length" error
Stored procedure fails or crashes the application after upgrading to PowerBuilder 2017
Common solution for DataWindow UI error
IDE
PowerBuilder Object Browser is not displaying
PowerBuilder crashing when opening workspace on startup
Initialization file is not writable error when starting PowerBuilder
Breakpoints or QuickWatch variables in the PowerBuilder debugger are not being saved from session to session
Unable to create or open project
How to add a library to the application project
Failed to add files to Git repository
Opening objects in PowerBuilder 2017 R2 is slow
Create authentication credentials for Git on VSTS
Icon not found on executable or window while compiling with OrcaScript or standalone PBC
Connect to an existing local Git/SVN repository with PowerBuilder IDE
PowerBuilder IDE crashes on startup
Source control system missing
Printing PDFs using Acrobat Reader
Failed to add code to the repository of the Bonobo Git Server with Add to Source Control from PowerBuilder IDE
IDE Crash while editing a special DataWindow
PB IDE fails to run and shows error “Initialization file is not writable. Cannot continue.”
Text in PowerBuilder IDE loses high definition when zoomed above 100% Zoom
Connect to Bitbucket using an app password
PowerBuilder Runtime Packager 2017 R3 fails
IDE Crash while full building a newly upgraded application
Could not find resource file
PowerScripts
The Round function with a double argument does not consistently round correctly
PostURL() of the Inet object sometimes returning -6
How to get the X and Y coordinates of a Grid DataWindow row?
The Ascending property on the SORT gets lost
PowerObject array values in a structure being overwritten
PowerClient/PowerServer applications crash when multiple instances are run in PowerBuilder 2021 build 1506
GlobalMemoryStatus returns 0 on 64-bit operating system
The RegistryGet() function doesn't work on Windows 7
Updating contents of blob
PowerBuilder using ADO.NET causing System.InvalidOperationException: This SQLTransaction has completed, it is no longer usable
Calling a Stored Procedure in PowerBuilder results in 'Invalid character value for cast specification' error
The IsNumber function returns the incorrect
SelectedText() returning empty string for DropDownListBox
The result of dividing LongLong data by a number is incorrect
Application containing PFC crashes after being upgraded from Sybase PowerBuilder to PowerBuilder 2017 R3 or later
SelectBlob is truncated when the embedded SQL statement exceeds 512 characters
The external API function returns garbled characters
Printing fails and the application does not respond
Control & UI
RichText control does not see system fonts in the drop down for fonts
Underline not displaying for PowerBuilder menu item hotkeys
ListView control does not show complete words in the generated .exe file
Blurry font text on higher resolution monitors with scaling set greater than 100%
Objects & Controls
Call SOAP Web Service using HTTPClient object
How to use the PBDOM object to build the XML content required for SOAP WebService and parse an XML document
Call WCF Services using HTTPClient or RESTClient objects
How to use HTTPClient or RESTClient to call an API with basic authentication
How to change the maximum URL length supported in the web request sent by HTTPClient/RESTClient
Sending a request through HTTPClient or RESTClient with a special character results in an error
HttpClient is not working on some machine in the same network
PBDOM Element.GetChildElement(name) returns null
Unresolvable external pbdom_document
PBC/ORCA/PBAutoBuild
PowerBuilder crash when building large/complex targets generated by ORCAScript
How to solve the crash when executing the ORCA script
PBAutoBuild execution shows Error: There is no IDE version or Runtime version in the file
PBAutoBuild execution shows Error: Invalid executable file name
Compilation with PBAutoBuild is slower than compilation in IDE
Performance
How to solve the low performance of processing strings
PowerBuilder application crashes when it uses too much memory
The negative impact of Accessibility on application performance
Workarounds & Solutions
What do I need to deploy a 64-bit executable
Window Events trigger in different order if WindowState = Maximized!
Upgrade a source-control workspace from PowerBuilder 2017 R2 to PowerBuilder 2017 R3
Columns won't display when using PostGreSQL database to create DataWindow
Opening a RichTextEdit control over terminal services is slow
Solution for appeon_workarounds.pbl not resizing the RibbonBar and WebBrowser controls
How to disable mouse click on checkbox for each treeview item
How to determine a mapped network drive path within a PowerBuilder application
Wrong result when assigning a handle to an any variable
PowerBuilder application execution error (R0108) Not enough memory to execute the operation
Database
Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19.0.0 for SQL Server is not working
How to solve "ERROR: column p.adsrc does not exist" with PostgreSQL
Getting a SQLSTATE=21000 error when running SQL using the OLEDB database driver
SQL Server Text DataType issue with SNC driver
DBMS ASE is not supported in your current installation
PB odbc connecting to mssql maps date and datetime2 to char(10)
ORA-24334: no descriptor for this position
Executing Informix Stored Procedure results in "Numeric value out of range" error message
StripParmNames='Yes' is not working when PBNewSPInvocation='Yes' is used in the DBparm
Oracle Library OCI.DLL could not be loaded
DB2 CHAR to VARCHAR conversion error
PowerBuilder calling a db2 stored procedure results in a sqlstate=38503 SQL1131N error
How to set the isolation level with the SNC native database interface
Deployed PowerBuilder application executable cannot connect to the database
Upgraded to Windows 7 and Oracle tables are not visible in the PowerBuilder database painter
UPDATE failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, ARITHABORT
PowerBuilder pipeline issue connected to Oracle 11g using the O10 Oracle10g (10.1.0) DB interface
Informix Dynamic SQL Format 2 returning -201: A syntax error has occurred
DB2 INSERT to nullable column with default results in Assignment of a NULL value to a NOT NULL column error
PowerBuilder and Informix ODBC connection
PowerBuilder support for ASE 16
UpdateBlob not working on proxy tables
Calling Oracle stored procedures and functions
Adaptive Server Enterprise data truncated using roman8 charset
DB2 CHAR to VARCHAR conversion error
How to change the password of the ASE database when PowerBuilder is running
How to map data pipeline source columns to destination columns
NativePDF
Paper size of PDF exported by NativePDF differs from Ghostscript
How to solve the loss of math symbols in PDF exported using NativePDF
Special Vietnamese characters are not correctly exported using NativePDF
Third-party Software
How to use Visual Studio to debug a C/C++ dynamic library called by a PowerBuilder 2019 application
PFC Print Range selection is disabled
Cannot insert an ActiveX in a tabpage control
PowerBuilder IDE crashes when trying to insert an OLE control
PowerBuilder RichText Control WordWrap property is not working
Cannot change bookmarks in MS Word 2013 document
Error calling external object function of an oleobject
Calls to custom built C++ DLLs results in error inside IDE
PowerClient/PowerServer application is started twice in Chrome/Edge version 98
Microsoft Web Browser OLE control and JavaScript errors
How to solve the error ‘HTTP Error 502.2 - Bad Gateway’ or ‘HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found’ when downloading CloudAppLauncher_Installer.exe
Remove stored commandline arguments from PowerClient/PowerServer application
OLE Control failed to run when compiled as 64-bit application
Third-party tool UFT cannot get the PBName property on an object
Error calling Word OLE
Others
How to examine and fix corrupted machine system files
TabBackColor not working
Unresolvable external nv_message when linking reference
Crash when using large String or Blob
Sheet Menu Print is printing application background
Error 'The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.'
Compilation fails using a PowerBuilder PBR
Pbjvm190.dll failed to register
webservice response contains s:type attributes
Dialogs won't appear after update KB3057839
Black screen in Citrix with PowerBuilder 2017
PBVM190.DLL is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error
PowerBuilder application crashes when its GDI Objects or User Objects exceed the limit
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