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Forms : A Bean to start external programmes and get the standard/error output

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Java bean that allows to start programmes on the client machine, then capture the standard/error output. It could be used if you don't want to install or use the Webutil library. Read the article

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Forms and Webutil : Get the standard output of a system command

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Sometimes I see questions about how to get the file list of a local directory. The standard answer is to proceed a Host() command that use the DIR command with a redirection to a file: Host('cmd /c dir /b c:\*.jpg > c:\list_file.txt'); When the file is...

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A Commercial Forms Html Editor Bean

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

If anybody is looking for a Forms HTML editor Java Bean, the Sferyx company have one. http://www.sferyx.com/

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Forms : Mouse events part II

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

In this second chapter, the bean is able to etablish the correspondance between the Java components and the Forms module's items. When the mouse enter an item, the background color is changed, then an event is sent to Forms to indicate which item is concerned....

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Forms : mouse events and Java reflexion

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Java bean that allows to capture the mouse events and display the properties and methods of the clicked component. Read the article

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Java - GUI - Swing

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is two great presentations by Romain Guy about Human interfaces and promises of new swing features. get these presentations

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Forms : send emails with html body and attachments

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Java bean that allows to send emails with html body and local file attachments. Read the article

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Forms : avoid duplicated records in the same block

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

There is another question often asked, concerning how to immediatly avoid duplicated record in the same block. (by immediatly I would say before posting or committing). The technique used to solve this problem comes from the Kevin D Clarke’s calculated...

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Forms : A based block sorted on a non database column

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

I often see questions about how to sort a based block on a non database column. This is a "how-to" that does the trick.

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Chat on Forms

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

A Java bean that allows to chat on a Forms application Here is a first real application that uses the socketserver Java Bean Read the article

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