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Forms Look and Feel : new screenshots

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is another example of what "beautiful" Oracle Forms screens you can design if a talented Designer like José you are . Notice the "fineness" of the toolbar, composed by LAF Buttons on a gradient colored toolbar canvas Watch them in full size on the...

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel last version

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

The LAF project tool (1.6.7) has been recently updated, so if you got it before the 21st of July 2011 and would ensure you have the more updated version, download it again from the LAF site. Francois

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Oracle Forms : A "Card" Item Style PJC

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Pluggable Java Component from Andreas Weiden, to have a "Card" item style within a single Text Item. Read the article

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Oracle Forms 10g Tuning tips

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a good article by Michel Schildmeijer about how to tune your Forms installation It is a worth reading for every Forms team that want to try optimizing their applications.

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Forms : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: oracle.forms.handler.IHandler.getApplet()

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

When you migrate to the latest Forms version (10.1.2.3 or 11) and try using a JavaBean created with an older Forms version, you can get the following error, at runtime, in the Java Console: Exception in thread "thread applet-oracle.forms.engine.Main-1"...

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.6.7

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

This new version comes with the JDBC asynchronous calls, that allow the developer to execute asynchronous database procedures and functions, via the JDBC driver, without "freezing" the Forms screen during the long time processes. Those executions are...

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An "Expand/Collapse" - Canvas Forms Java-Bean

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Pluggable Java Component from Andreas Weiden, to have expandable/collapsable canvas. It allows a simple Push Button Item to expand/collapse the whole content of a canvas like a Tree item. Get it now

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.6.6

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

- The LAF_XP_TextArea PJC can display some HTML (3.2) content: - Un-selected background color of TABs on TAB canvas can, now be colored. Get the new version

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Oracle Forms Look and Feel 1.6.5

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

This version has a new SET_WINDOW_PROPERTY() method added to the DrawLAF Java Bean to allow/prevent the user to do the following on the Forms window: move close maximize minimize resize disable show You can also change the MDI window state maximize state...

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Forms Magnifier : The Flop

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Forms Magnifier is a tool that permits to display an Oracle Forms application exactly the same whatever the screen resolution is. Every component - Items but also Graphics - is moved/resized at runtime to fit the new screen size. Because I have developed...

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