Francois Degrelle's blog

A Java/Swing (very) interesting blog

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

You are interested by Java and you love Swing, so you have to put the Romain Guy's blog in your bookmark ! Two particular links from any others: http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx/?anc...ery_cool_swing http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx/?anc...tions_answer...

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Javaone 2006 presentation slides

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Get the presentation slides here To get the pdf presentations, the user and password are indicated at the top of the page.

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A Forms Debugging Message Tool

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Steve Cosner have created an Oracle Forms tool that allows to debug all messages raised in a Forms application (even database messages provided by the DBMS_OUTPUT package). This is a quote of his presentation: "ZDebug is a form to help you easily create...

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A Forms hierarchical tree menu with database roles

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is an article that shows how to handle a hierarchical tree in an Oracle Forms application with the database role functionality enabled. read the paper Francois

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Using a collection to sort a string

Oracle PL-SQL

Par Francois Degrelle

This a small function that allows to sort the content of a string (ASCII sort).It use a collection or records to do the job: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sort_string(pc$string IN VARCHAR2) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS TYPE typ_rec IS RECORD(lettre VARCHAR2(10), nbre...

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Handle a CLOB column with Forms 6i and 9i

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

I notice sometimes questions about how to handle CLOB columns in a Forms 6i / 9i application. It seems to be very difficult to use CLOB variables within Forms to handle correctly the whole datum. For the purpose of creating a file on disk with the content...

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Oracle Forms : dynamic translation tool

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

The purpose of this tool is to allow dynamic translation of the Oracle Forms modules. The translations are stored in Oracle tables and read on loading of each dialog. A dialog is provided to manage the translations (TRANSLATE.FMB). The lists allow to...

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Colorize/uncolorize items for Enter-query/Execute-query actions

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

It is a good idea, in an Oracle Forms application, to put a particular color on items when the user toggle to the Enter-Query mode. Here are 2 PL/SQL generic procedures you can put into your own PL/SQL library to do the job. You only need to create two...

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Oracle Forms JavaBean : A HTML map JavaBean

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

This is a JavaBean that allows to handle a "HTML Map" in a Forms application. Read the article

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The Frank Zappa's music played all around the Europe

Other

Par Francois Degrelle

The Frank Zappa's sons in a big tour in europe to play their fathers' music ! http://www.zappa.com/cheezoid/whatsnew/zpz/index.html

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