External Objects and Controls – PB Docs 2022

RichTextEdit (read
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Select the Built-in TX Text Control
ActiveX (32-bit and 64-bit) which is used as the rich
text editor for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications; otherwise, the
obsolete Microsoft RichEdit Control will be used as the 64-bit rich
text editor, which is very different from the 32-bit TX
TextControl.

The built-in TX Text Control ActiveX is also used to support
RichText-based DataWindows.

To select Built-in TX Text Control
ActiveX, follow the instructions here.

External (OLE’s, OCX, WinAPI,
etc…) (read
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You can use OLE and ActiveX components in your applications,
but you must use the 32-bit
versions in the PowerBuilder IDE. At runtime you must have the correct 64-bit ActveX
components installed.

PBNI (read
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You can use PBNI in your applications, but you must use the 32-bit extensions in the
PowerBuilder IDE. At runtime you must
have the correct 64-bit extensions installed. The file
names of your 64-bit extension should match the 32-bit file names,
since the application references it by file name.

MAPI (read
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PowerBuilder supports MAPI (messaging application program
interface), so you can enable your applications to send and receive
messages using any MAPI-compliant electronic mail system. However,
you need to keep in mind the following considerations when using
MAPI with a deployed 64-bit application: 64-bit PowerBuilder mail
applications can only work with 64-bit Windows MAPI. 32-bit
PowerBuilder applications can only work with 32-bit Windows MAPI.
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Environment Object (read
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The Environment object is a system structure used to hold
information about the computing platform the PowerBuilder
application is running on. You populate the Environment object using
the GetEnvironment function. (read
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This feature becomes very useful when deploying, running and
testing applications compiled as 64-bit because you can determine
the bitness of your application using the
ProcessBitness property. (read
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PFC

If you are using the PFC framework (in part or whole) then you
need to make sure you are using the latest version. The PFC
framework should only require a few Window API calls to be modified
in order to work properly in a 64-bit environment. The following are
the particular API calls that PFC makes, and the only real
difference is that you need to change the value of the size of
structures attribute passed in on the call.