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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.7.1.1

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Tiny update of the LAF project. This 1.7.1.1 version sligtly improves the Image Spinner feature by consuming less memory. a new IMAGE_SPINNER_SET_KEEP_SIZE method can be used not to keep the original image size if you don't intend to save them later in...

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Forms: a partially conceal Text Item PJC

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a PJC that hide parts of a text item . It is usefull to hide the begin or the end (or any part actually) of a phone number or a credit card or anything else. Get the PJC

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.7.1

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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...

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.7

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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...

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.6.9

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

New Java Bean (LAF_Map) to handle HTML maps. It allows the developer to render a HTML Map. You can tune the properties like Tooltip colors, border type and filling colors of Map zones. In the CSS file, you can now change the properties for Display Items...

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Oracle Forms : A multi-selection record system

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

For once, this Forms entry is not about Java Beans or PJC, but only 100% Forms standard ! This new article show how you can select/unselect several records in a table-block, without any extra item in the block, but only a PL/SQL collection stored and...

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Using the LAF without the whole LAF stuff

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

I receive sometimes requests by users that are interested by some features of the Forms Look and Feel tool, but don't want to install the whole stuff : .pll, .css, database packages, ... Even though you need the PLL and the CSS to easilly paint the canvases...

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.6.8

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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...

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Forms Multirecord PJC updated

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

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...

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Oracle Forms : the new "Forms Resizer" tool

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

A few months ago, I delivered the Forms Magnifier tool, capable of adjusting the Forms elements size and location at runtime, whatever the screen size is. This tool allows the application to fit any screen resolution in an heterogeneous PC pool. Today,...

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