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PowerBuilder Assertion Failure

Posted on October 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm in

Here is a minor head scratcher in PB11.5. IF Len(dw_1.object.column_name[1]) > 50 THEN // and so on This gives you a nifty messagebox: To fix this do something like: IF Len(string(dw_1.object.column_name[1])) > 50 THEN… or string ls ls = dw_1.object.column_name[1] IF Len(ls) > 50 THEN… Since there are two Len methods (one for blob and…

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PowerBuilder – Where is the PB.INI file?

Posted on October 13, 2011 at 3:00 pm in

So I’m looking for the Custom Color settings that I have set up in PB (11.5.1) and think PB.INI? Registry settings? magic? The first two places don’t give me the information so “Google to the Rescue”. Paul Horan had a blog entry (old Sybase site since dead) on this and says it’s kept in the…

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PowerBuilder – Datawindow ‘SuperSpy’ tool

Posted on October 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm in

Not too long ago I came across some information on a free Powerbuilder tool call ‘DWSpy’ written by Michael Zuskin (site is gone now apparently). In certain respects it is similar to my Window Object information service although geared towards datawindows. I decided to expand on the tool a bit by changing it into a…

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