Francois Degrelle's blog
about some Oracle technologies 
The new Forms Look and Feel Project 1.5.3 version is out with a few new enhanced text features. You can, now, scale the text on a given width and height, force the text to fit a given bounding box, and justify the text to a given width. Get it now
Here is a Java Bean from Jesus Vallejo that displays a calculator. It cannot run with JInitiator and needs the Sun Java plug-in. Read the article
The new Forms Look and Feel Project 1.6 version is out. You can create items at runtime, like Push Buttons, Text Items, Check boxes and Images. At design time, the canvas contains absolutly nothing! (except one Bean Area, of course). Get it now
For those who want to better know what you can do with the Oracle Forms Look and Feel Project, I have recorded a few live demos. You can reach them from the Photos/Live demos tab of the Forms Look and Feel site. Feel free to watch them ;-) Francois
Here is a PJC that includes a menu in a Text Item. Get it now
It was several times that I missed her visit to Paris, but I finally managed to see her ! For those who love jazz in general, and especially Hammond organ. If you want to laugh, wait until the end of the movie ;-) (the waiter is so moved that he breaks...
In the OTN Forms forum, a chance is given to you to tell what new features you would like to have in Oracle Forms. Enter your luck, it does not happen every day Come on and make your proposals
The Google Chrome Web Browser is, now another alternative to run a Forms Application
The new Forms Look and Feel Project 1.3.9 version is out with new features about the LOVs and the Alert Boxes. They have,now, the same Look than the other elements. Get it now
Everything comes to an end. The great Australian trip is done. Here is a few photos of the unforgetable travel. See a few photos of the unforgetable travel Francois
Here is a Java Bean that allows sending back to the Forms application each key pressed in any Text Item. Read the article
If you are interested in knowing what the Forms Look and Feel project can do for you, Here is a live presentation recorded as an Oracle Webcast Advisor Programme. It needs Internet Explorer to consult and lasts approximatively 40 minutes. See the presentation...
Here is a Pluggable Java Component that allows to manage a FTP connection. Read the article
Main new feature : Scrolling Image Viewer Allowing you to display your images in a scrolling panel. Ideal for a photo album or a commercial catalog. In this version, the images can also be read from a BLOB database column. Get the new version
The last 1.3.4 version of the Forms L&F is available
Here is the third version of the Swing JTable Forms' Java Bean. In this last version, the Forms dialog is able to read images from database Blob's columns and send them to the JTable without any JDBC connexion. See this last version .
After a long research, I finally managed to get it ! In its third version, this Java Bean does not need any extra JDBC connexion to handle images from/to the database , but a single PL/SQL database package. See the last version
Here is a Java Bean that allows to get some client machine information. Read the article
What a good surprise to see, in my stats, that Frank Zappa has had more visit than other Oracle blog entry. Even if Oracle takes a good part in my professional life, Frank was correct on the following (and on so many other things) : Music is the best...
Here is my present for X-MAS, a Java bean that allows to choose a date from a Java swing calendar. The Java calendar itself is from Kai Toedter - Released under GNU Lesser General Public License - www.toedter.com See the article .
With the current toolbar, you can add, remove, show, hide, enable, disabled any popup or menu option, even those of the Forms internal standard menus (Default - Default&Smartbar) Get the new version
This is a Javabean component that allows to retrieve the Forms applet parameters. Read the article Francois
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
The 1.3.1 Forms Look and Feel version is out. It is a consolidation of the 1.3 new features that can be stored through new tags in the CSS file. It allows coloring tabs and comes with a few new features (see the doc) Get the new version
What is really that Java everybody speaks about all around the world ?Who knows what all the Java Platform Standard Edition components are? Have a look at the Java SE overview.You can click on any part of image provided on this link to get information...
