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Hi,
we are currently using PowerGen 6.0.0.36 for PowerBuilder V10.0 for our application builds and are getting a few bugs in our executable versions which we cannot reproduce in our PowerBuilder environment.
We are currently running the PowerBuilder 10.2.1 Build 9004 which has quite a few bug fixes in it and at the time we applied the latest patch to PowerBuilder I wondered how the bug fixes where going to filter over to PowerGen where we do our application builds, as there was no documentation in the 10.2.1 release as to how these bug fixes can be applied to PowerGen and I found no documentation on the E. Crane website.
After we had a few bugs in our executable which we could not reproduce in PowerBuilder I performed a build of our application in PB 10.2.1 and testing the executable and the bugs had disappeared, which leads me to believe these bugs with PowerBuilder have been fixed in PB 10.2.1 but an update for PowerGen has not been released to cover these bugs.
My question is there a patch coming out for PowerGen that includes the bug fixes for PB 10.2.1 Build 9004? and if not is there any other possible workaround so that we can still use PowerGen to perform our application builds?
I'm sure there are a quite a few other people out there experiencing the same problems.
Also how are updates (non major release) to PowerBuilder normally reflected in PowerGen? Does Sybase need to release the Source for the bugs so PowerGen can be updated or the updated dll's?
Regards,
Greg Schneider
Queensland Department of Justice
Australia
Hi Greg,
Most of the processing in PowerGen is actually done in PowerBuilder DLLs that are called through an API (ORCA) supplied by Sybase. So regenerating an object in PowerGen should produce the exactly same result as doing it in PowerBuilder. (There have been rare exceptions to this, but none recently.)
Can you send your PowerGen project file and an output log from the build? Assuming there are no build errors can you describe the run-time errors you are getting?
Phil
We've also seen some strange things happening with our builds from Powergen.
Specifically, the dropdown event in datawindows was not firing. This occured in the exe produced by powergen and when I ran the app from the IDE using the pbls created by the powergen build. Once I built the app in PB the event fired correctly. This problem occured in all windows not just a specific instance. The event will also start firing correctly if I add some code to the even on the descendant windows, even if it is just a comment.
Please let me know if there is a fix for this problem. If there isn't we will have to stop using Powergen.
Hi Charles,
I responded to this via e-mail too. You need to use the "regenerate the objects after last import phase" option for the Bootstrap Import.
Regards,
Phil