Francois Degrelle's blog
about some Oracle technologies 
I have delivered a new special version of the Forms JTable Java Bean. It is a special version, because it requires the Sun plug-in 1.6. Here are the new features: Totalization line at the table's bottom You can change the Header height Check boxes support...
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Develop your Oracle Forms application for one screen resolution, then run it in full screen with no visual change for any other resolution! This new commercial tool is capable of moving and scaling every Canvas and Item at runtime to fit the new window...
This version allows the developer to display video clips inside or outside the Forms application. The video clip can be loaded from the client, an A.S. virtual directory, an Internet URL and, of course, from a database BLOB column. The movie is played...
I see, more and more often, questions from people that (finally) migrate from C/S to Web Forms versions, and don't know how to display charts (feature that is no longer available in Web version). Of course, the first point is to use the Oracle official...
One of the features of the Look and Feel Project, is the capability to add items at runtime, and more particularly Image items, via the IMG_NEW method. As Google Charts are PNG images, it is easy to use a dynamic image to display them. Only 3 instructions...
New DrawLAF Java Bean "Image Spinner" component. You can display multiple images in the same component like a carousel, add images to the spinner from the client machine (JAR or file system), the Internet, and the database. You can also populate it by...
Table-block record selection and PJCs raising mouse events. You can, now, select/unselect records in a table-block just by clicking them with the mouse. You can trap mouse events (mouse-enter, mouse-exit and mouse-click) on PJCs like Text Items, List...
The DrawLAF Java Bean can, now, start external commands, then get the result back. It allows the developer to start external commands, then after get the result or the error. A new method has been added to the DrawLAF Java Bean : SET_EXT_PROG. Result...
I have just updated the good old Multirecord PJC . It can, now, handle buttons. The only standard way to personalize an object in a multi-record table block is to use the Set_Item_Instance_Property() built-in. Unfortunately, the list of properties you...
Here is another example of what "beautiful" Oracle Forms screens you can design if a talented Designer like José you are . Notice the "fineness" of the toolbar, composed by LAF Buttons on a gradient colored toolbar canvas Watch them in full size on the...
Merry Christmas everybody For the occasion, I have just developed a little change around the Scrolling Panel by adding some methods. SET_SCROLL_PANEL_ESCAPE to allow the end-user to exit the panel box by pressing the Escape key SET_SCROLL_PANEL_FRAME...
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Hello, I have just finished to design the new site to host the Forms Look and Feel Project. I hope you will enjoy it, and think to send me screen-shots of your LAF implementation to feed the new image gallery tab ;o) The URL is still the same. Maybe you...
The Forms Java Bean contest is over, and it is time to publish the result: The winner is Md. Mehbub Islam with his Scanner Bean Congratulation! Others on the podium are Hafed Benteftifa's FRITE and Vijaynath Nair's Autocad Integration Bean (2nd), and...
Hafed Benteftifa has just released his FRITE - Forms Rich Text Editor - alowing the Oracle Forms application to edit HTML content. This is just the kind of Java Bean, developers and end-users were waiting for years ! Don't waste any more time, run and...
I have just added the keyboard navigation function to the Scrolling Image Panel new function. You can, then, navigate through the images using the Left, Right, Home and End arrows on the keyboard. As it is really a minor modification, I decided not to...
To mark the third anniversary of the forms-pjc-bean site, I am pleased to launch a Forms Java Bean contest . To take part, all you need to do is to show a developed Forms application that contains an interesting, innovative, or just plain "cool" use of...
I saw a blog entry, today, about the Google Chart APIs, and it immediatly made me thinking about the enhanced HTML browser or the other enhanced HTML browser Forms Java beans to render simple graphics in the application frame. Of course, you can display...
These days, we received two new Java Beans to add to the forms-pjc-bean library A first one from Mark Striekwold about another solution to display a full Web browser with Flash animation, and documents like Powerpoint, MSWord or MSExcel inside the Forms...
Here is a sample dialog that allows to extract the content of a table-block to an HTML code. You can extract all the rows of the given block or only a range. It uses the package (PKG_HTML_TABLE) to extract the data to the HTML code. The function needs...
This Java Bean allows to process massive updates to the Forms source files (.FMB) through an XML input file. The goal is to hide the complexity of the Java/JDAPI stuff for those people that do not have time/skill to implement this Java API. All the work...
Here is a Java Bean to handle CLOB/NCLOB database columns in a Forms application. It is a more elaborated version of a previous one, which was based on a PJC (VTextArea). Unfortunately, the PJC was no able to handle huge texts, and often "froze" with...
Here is a PJC that allows showing/hiding scrollbars on a multi-line Text Item. Actually, there is no property to show the horizontal scrollbar on a Text Area. Get the JAR file here Get the Forms sample here (9.0.2) The Java code is as simple as the following:...
