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Pushing the L&F concept one more step: The Menu bar/option, Window caption and Status bar are gettting the current selected scheme colors. What do you think ?
There are some standard objects in Forms that you cannot handle at runtime. Frames are one of them. Here is a Java Bean that allows handling frames at runtime. Almost everything about frames can ...
Here is another great contribution from Casey Bowden. A Forms Java Bean to get the status of a long report and to cancel it if needed. Read the article
Here is a Java bean to dynamically handle menu options at runtime. You can dynamically add, remove, enable, disable, show and hide menus and menu options. Read the article
The 1.2 version of the Look and Feel project is available. It comes with a new feature that allows decorating some unusual elements like menu bar, menu option, window caption or status bar. You ...
Here is a Java Bean from Casey Bowden to get back print features lost in Oracle Reports converting to web environment. A bean to directly print any file on the local printer. Read the article
Here is a Java bean that allows decorating the Forms application elements. It becomes very easy to change all the fonts of a Forms application at runtime. As you can see, it is possible to change ...
For a checking out purpose, I would be able to display the HTML content of a Text Item in the default Internet Browser window. My first thought was to create a HTML file on the local machine then ...
I have just updated the LAF source to correct a bug that happens when you use the LAF tool on Forms modules with another coordinate system than Pixel.Get the corrected version here.
If you are interested in Web Services and want to discover how easy it is to integrate them within a Forms application, Jump to this Grant Ronald blog entry
Wilfred van der Deijl has just published a white paper about how to integrate Oracle Forms in a web application.This is the most important concept I have ever seen about the Oracle Forms ...
I have received requests from people who do not want to install the full "Summit" Oracle Forms application to test the Look and Feel tool, or simply have still the old 9i version.I have upgraded ...
These last weeks, I have worked for the French Presidential elections, at the 3rd channel French television (France 3).Here is a picture from the studio the results were presented yesterday.I have ...
Here is the version 1.1 that comes with 2 new features. You can play any pre-loaded sounds and also display any single or multi-line message anywhere in the window during the number of ...
The Oracle Forms Look and Feel project is published on the forms-pjc-bean site.It is considered as an open source project, so everyone who feels interested in participating to the project could ...
A new White Paper has just been published on OTN. It presents a new tool that allows to give a new Look and Feel to the Forms applications.I would be pleased to "open " the code to the community, ...
Grant Ronald has just published a "How to" that demonstrates how easy it is to use any external Web Service into an Oracle Forms 10g Application. Read the article
Chet Haase and Romain Guy have just published a book about "Developing animated and graphical effects for Java applications".I have not read it yet, but, knowing the reputation of these guys, I am ...
Could you imagine an article that discuss about serious Java IDEs that does not take into account the Oracle JDeveloper tool ?No, this article is not serious!See the Frank Nimphius comment If you ...
Here is a Java bean that allows the Drag 'n Drop within a Swing JTree item.This bean is proposed by Minas Lyrakis from Greece. This bean uses itself the DispatchingBean of Tom Cleymans. (so it ...
Here is a package that allows the dispatching of events from Java Beans to Forms on Beans that extend VBean, beans that use the FBean package and also PJCs !No, you are not dreaming and there is ...
I have provided several PJC/Beans that use the Java gradient to colorize some objects.Someone asked to me if it could be possible to apply this gradient feature to the whole Forms canevas.So here ...
Here is a Swing JButton that overloads a standard PJC's button. It allows to have a standard Forms button with some nice decoration features.You can apply a gradient color, set rounded borders, ...
I was asked to build a JSP page within our Portal application to show some employee's characteristics.It is easy to get all the common attributes with the search() method, but I never found ...
Another great Oracle blog site with plenty of articles about Forms,J2EE and other Oracle stuff.The site is owned by Wilfred van der Deijl.It is worth reading !Francois
This is the first anniversary of the forms-pjc-bean site, and I wanted to use this special event to present my "hot fusion" participation, or how to etablish a bilateral communication between a ...
It is exactly one year since the forms-pjc-bean site was launched.It was created to offer a public place where everyone could share their Forms' Java bean samples. It is now time to make an ...
A Javascript integration example to have a nice scrolling text within Forms. This bean uses the enhanced HTML browser.Writing a JavaBean able to scroll a text in a panel is quite a big job.Doing ...
Here is a text item's PJC that can be used in multi-records Forms tables. It allows to have a coherent behaviour in a multi-record table for items that record number are greater than the number of ...
Here is a Java bean that allows to Drag 'n Drop between Forms items. You can Drag 'n Drop between mono and multi-line text fields and between images.Read the article
Here is a PJC for textfields that allows to have a blinking behaviour. This behaviour could be easily applied to other kind of items, like Command buttons for instance.Read the article
I Often see threads on forums about how to apply massive changes to a large number of forms.One solution is to use the JDAPI tool provided by Oracle (download the JDAPI Documentation). It is a ...
Here is a collection of PJCs that allow to have multi-line labels and tooltips. The tooltips can have a nice decoration like Java gradients and be displayed anywhere on the screen. All the ...
Here is a very simple PJC code that allow to have multi-line tooltips within Forms:Here is the Java code:package oracle.forms.fd; import java.util.StringTokenizer;import ...
Here are links to the Oracle Forms 10g Services documentation for those who are looking for some tuning information:Oracle® Application Server Forms Services Deployment Guide10g Release 2 ...