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Laurent Schneider's Book

Oracle PL-SQL

Par Francois Degrelle

I've just discovered that Laurent Schneider has published a book about "Advanced Oracle SQL Programming". As I already know and have learned from him, I am pretty sure this book would be a gold mine.

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JFileChooser opened on the Windows desktop

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Just seen today on a Java forum, a tips that shows how to open a JFileChooser on the Windows desktop: FileSystemView fsv = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView(); JFileChooser fc = new JFileChooser(fsv.getRoots()[0]); fc.showSaveDialog(this);

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Forms Look and Feel 1.3.3 is out

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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

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Forms : a PJC to show/hide scrollbars on Text Items

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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:...

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Forms : a progress bar to follow stored procedure execution

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a way that allows following the progression of a stored procedure. The following code is used to create a sample stored procedure to test. It uses the dbms_application_info.set_session_longops to insert "tags" that can be read by the Forms application....

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Forms Look and Feel 1.3.2

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

The new 1.3.2 version of the Forms Look and Feel project is out. It allows handling single and multi-line Text Items (Blinking text, Cursor position, Hyperlinks, Regular Expressions,...) Get it here

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Zappa Plays Zappa on tour again!

Other

Par Francois Degrelle

Hello folks, The Zappa Plays Zappa is on tour again with plenty of dates in Europe. If you keep a so great memory of the genious father's (Frank) music, or want to discover a piece of his colossal oeuvre, let come and enjoy listening his music again played...

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Forms : dynamic calculation

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

It is not the first time I see questions on forums about how to calculate a formula that is stored in a string. Here is a Forms sample that demonstrates how to achieve this task. The formula (3rd line in this sample) can contains real values as well as...

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Forms L&F 1.3.1 is out

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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

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Forms L&F : one step further

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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 ?

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