Does anyone know of an alternative IDE for Sybase Powerbuilder? It feels pretty clunky, after working with VS2008 and Eclipse. If not, has anyone successfully worked with this language outside the...

I am evaluating various version/source control options for our legacy Powerbuilder application (in PB11 now, will be migrating to legacy 12 soon). To this point, all the version control with very...

Help, our team upgraded/changed our Laptops from Windows XP to Windows 7 64 Bit, that came with the laptop itself. its therefore licensed and cannot be downgraded. When using a datawindow and addi...

Does anyone have any advice for migrating a PowerBuilder 10 business application to .NET? My company is considering migrating a legacy PB application to .NET (C#) and I am just wondering if anyon...

I am using EZTWAIN from a powerbuilder application to acquire images from an HP scanner. Recently I tried a Kodak model (i1120) and it seems that it is not supported. Specifically the application f...

I am getting an error when updating a DataWindow which says "Row changed between retrieve and update". What is the solution?

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...

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...

I'm recently working in a company where we use PowerBuilder extensively. The only documentation or resources we have access to is some basic course saying things like "Do A, then B and you'll...

I have a grid datawindow with a picture in it's background (with dimensions of an A4 page) and I would like to export both data and the picture as a (single page) PDF file. I used several combinati...

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...

What recommendations do you have for a Subversion client that supports Microsofts standard SCC API? So far, I've found two possibilities: TortoiseSVN SCC. Seems neither mature, active nor suppor...

What is the best version control system to implement with PowerBuilder 11.5? If you have examples of how you have did branching/trunk/tags that would be awesome. We have tried to wrap our heads a...

Is there a way to handle the dynamic change of a dropdown for a single row in a grid-based datawindow? Example: NAME LIKABILITY PURCHASED IN COLOUR (Text) (DropDown*) (Text) (Text) Bananas [Good]...

string array[] long lBound, uBound lBound = LowerBound(array[]) // = 1, empty array value uBound = UpperBound(array[]) // = 0, empty array value array[1] = 'Item 1' array[2] = 'Item 2' array[3] =...

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 ...

I'm trying to write a tool which lets me inspect the state of a PowerBuilder-based application. What I'm thinking of is something like Spy++ (or, even nicer, 'Snoop' as it exists for .NET applicati...

I know this is a general question, but I'd like to hear other people's opinion about our case: I work in a small company. Our main development tool is PowerBuilder, which is a very limited I...