Runtime Errors

The application might not run correctly when you select Design > Run Project in the Project painter, when you run the executable file in the deployment folder, or when a user runs the installed application.

When you or a user runs the executable file, PowerBuilder creates a file called PBTrace.log in the same directory as the executable. This file can help you trace runtime errors. It can be configured by editing the appname.exe.config file, where appname is the name of the executable file:

 <appSettings>
    <!-- The value could be "enabled" or "disabled"-->
    <add key ="PBTrace" value ="enabled"/>
    <!-- The target can be File, EventLog or File|EventLog -->
    <add key ="PBTraceTarget" value="File"/>
    <!-- If the Target is File, PBTraceFileName should also be
         specified.-->
    <add key ="PBTraceFileName" value ="PBTrace.log"/>
    <!-- EventLogId is optional(0 is default), and it only 
         works when EventLog is enabled-->
    <add key ="PBEventLogID" value ="1101"/>

...

The following problems might also occur:

If the application cannot be launched from another computer, make sure the required PowerBuilder runtime files, pbshr125.dll and pbdwm125.dll, and the Microsoft runtime files on which they depend, at71.dll, msvcp100.dll, msvcr100.dll,msvcp71.dll, and msvcr71.dll, are available on the other computer and in the application’s path.

If the executable file is located on a network path, the .NET Framework must be configured to have Full Trust permissions at runtime. See Setting Full Trust Permissions.
If the application cannot connect to a database, make sure that the required PowerBuilder database interface, such as pbodb125.dll, has been added to the Win32 dynamic library files section of the Library Files tab page and that the required client software is available on the target computer. If the application uses a configuration file, such as myapp.ini, select it on the Resource Files tab page. For ODBC connections, make sure that the DSN file is created on the client.
If no data displays in DataWindow objects, select the PBLs that contain them on the Library Files tab page.
If graphics fail to display, select them on the Resource Files tab page.