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SAP PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications. Outside of StackOverflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon PowerBuilder Community. Also possibly of interest: The International Sybase User Group, PowerBuilder Journal

PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase and prior to that PowerSoft). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications.

As of July 2016, further development of PowerBuilder has been assumed by Appeon Corporation

Outside of Stack Overflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon Community Forum.

Also possibly of interest:

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How to view/open PowerScript file without PowerBuilder

I've got a PowerBuilder project that I want to inspect but I don't have PowerBuilder installed . I tried PB Peeper but it freezes when I try to browse through pbl files. Does anyone know any sort of software that I can open and see the source…
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Mercurial MSSCCAPI Provider?

Does anyone know of an MSSCCAPI provider for Mercurial? I'd like to try out Kiln/Mercurial with PowerBuilder, but the PowerBuilder IDE only recognizes MSSCCAPI providers (which is not the same as MS SCC Package API) and the only one I can find is…
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What does a negative color (-1, -2) mean in PowerBuilder?

The PowerBuilder documentation states that colors are encoded in a long number between -2 and 16777215. I quite understand how RGB encodes colors in a long (b*256/256 + g*256 + r), what I don't understand is the meaning of a negative color: What…
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How to import comma delimited text file into datawindow (powerbuilder 11.5)

Hi good day I'm very new to powerbuilder and I'm using PB 11.5 Can someone know how to import comma delimited text file into datawindow. Example Text file "1234","20141011","Juan, Delacruz","Usa","001992345456"... "12345","20141011","Arc,…
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Full Build, Incremental Build and Deploy within Powerbuilder

What is the difference between a Full Build, an Incremental Build and Deploy within Powerbuilder? The only difference I can see is that Deploy allows you to update the PBDs for, well, deployment.
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Powerbuilder language documentation

Where can I find documentation for the actual PowerBuilder language. I am referring to the kind of code you get when you select "Edit Source" from a right-click menu on the library painter. Not the kind of code you normally write.
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Telling if a transaction has uncommitted updates

In our application, there's a database update that is committed only after a consequent update is being executed (both using the same transaction, of course). However, we've discovered a rare flow in which the user exits the application before the…
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How to get active sheet menu in PowerBuilder?

How to get the active sheet menu in PowerBuilder. If I disable menu, it disables the last open sheet menu rather than the active sheet menu?
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SVN checkout failing with the protocol svn+ssh

I am using PowerBuilder 12.5 with build 2511. I am using Agent SVN to connect to the remote svn server. The server path is like "svn+ssh://user@domain/project/trunk". Here my problem is i am unable to checkout files from server, but i am able to…
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Is there a way to export powerbuilder application to text?

I want to start controlling our inhouse applicatoin using Git. And I thougth that if I can export all the application to text (not exporting object by object) and then using Git in them. And of course I will need a method to import this text files…
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.NET interop in PowerBuilder

I'm looking for a way to do two-way communication between a PB object and a .NET (C#) object. In looking at Brad's .NET version of his GUI controls, I see how to give the .NET object a reference to the PB object. But in that example, it's cast as a…
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Application performance monitoring tool

I need some help to find out if there is any tool that can give below stats for PowerBuilder application running against Oracle and Sybase. Also highlight if I missed any other areas to be monitored. 1) Distribution of entire client event time into…
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PowerBuilder for a Java programmer?

A friend of mine uses in his company an ERP software written in PowerBuilder. Unfortunately the (one and only) developer is going into retirement soon. My friend really likes the software and wants to keep using it for at least ten more years, so my…
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Looking for a simple .Net, 3D drawing API (assembly)

I am looking for a simple 3D drawing API for .net. The shapes I need to draw are: Hollow Cylinders Hollow Spheres Hollow Cubes 3D lines 3D text to annotate the shapes The functionality I am looking for is basic pan, rotate and zoom capabilities. Any…
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Powerbuilder: Positioning of a popup

I have a master-detail datawindow. In the detail window, when user clicks on a row, I am opening another datawindow as a Pop up datawindow which is positioned just below the row on which the user clicked. It works fine as long as there are less that…
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