Does/did the workstation in question have an unusually long PATH statment
that is getting truncated? The path statement length limit for XP was 1024
characters,
2048 in SP2...don't recall for SP3.
Is the full PATH stamtent displayed when you issue "PATH" at a command
prompt?
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"mike" <mg.enigma69@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > On Aug 13, 8:02 am, Wheeley <whee...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:03:01 -0700 (PDT), mike <mg.enigm...@gmail.com>
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> > > >Sorry I skipped Paul question.
> > > >it's from the IDE
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> > > The problem with bitmaps is powerbuilder uses the Windows search path
> > > to find them. The Windows search path is as follows:
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> > > The active directory
> > > The Windows directory
> > > The Windows system directory
> > > All directories in the PATH environment variable
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> > > From WITHIN the ide, the active directory can change depending what
> > > you do. The active directory on ide startup is typically the active
> > > target's directory. But as stated before this can change by simply
> > > doing an object export from a pb, a getfileopenname command while
> > > running your application, plus other things.
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> > > Obvously you don't want to place your bitmaps in the Windows or
> > > Windows system directories so that leaves something on the PATH
> > > variable.
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> > > From my experience, I always place my own bitmaps in the
> > > sybase\shared\powerbuilder directory and it always work for both
> > > development and at runtime from within the ide. Give that a try.
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> > > Hope this helps
> > > Wheeley
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> > Application specific files in sybase's shared folder? Ew...
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> > The search path also contains the folder that the exe was run from.
> > But when running your application from the IDE, this is %ProgramFiles%
> > \Sybase\Powerbuilder <version>. which isn't very useful.
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> > You could also make sure your target's main folder is in your
> > process's own path environment variable when run from the IDE.
> > Something like this should work somewhere in your applications startup
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> > type prototypes
> > function boolean SetEnvironmentVariable(string as_name, string
> > as_value) library "kernel32.dll" alias for "SetEnvironmentVariableW"
> > end prototypes
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> > if handle(getapplication())=0 then
> > contextkeyword lck
> > classdefinition lcd
> > application la
> > string lsa_path_values[], ls_application_folder
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> > la=getapplication()
> > lcd=la.classdefinition
> > ls_application_folder = left(lcd.libraryname,lastpos
> > (lcd.libraryname,'\'))
> > la.GetContextService("ContextKeyword", lck)
> > lck.GetContextKeywords("PATH", lsa_path_values)
> > if pos(lsa_path_values[1], ls_application_folder)<=0 then
> > SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", ls_application_folder+ ";" +
> > lsa_path_values[1])
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> hey guy's ,
> this is great info.
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> But still, it does not explain why on the same window only one image
> button do not work and the others (on the same window) works. We have
> a total of 6 image button and only one of them don't appear (the
> image) at runtime (from the IDE). But again in design it is ok, it
> does appear. Only when we run the app from the IDE then "pow" it is
> gone but the others at ok, we see the images on the others.
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> We even tried replacing his PBL from another developper. Still the
> same problem for that only developper. Other developpers are ok. So it
> might be his PC or glitch somewhere. We don't compile from his machine
> for the EXE :-) so it's not a big deal, but we are sure "intrigue" by
> this.
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> thank you all for the help... allways can count on you guys
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we took your previous recommandation and seems to work. We moved the
image to the directory where the PB.exe is (c:\program files\sybase
\powerbuilder) and worked. So we are onto something.
Michel
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