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Re: Just done my first app in Forms!

From: Stephan <test_at_test.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:51:10 GMT
Message-ID: <2whq9.19758$I8.425762@nlnews00.chello.com>


Please repost your question.

"Nick" <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net> wrote in message news:6Cbq9.15050$Sr6.485435_at_ozemail.com.au...
> Stephan & others
>
> Help me on this thread which was posted on 9/10/02:
> How to display a Word document in form?
>
> Thanks
> Nick
>
> "Stephan" <test_at_test.com> wrote in message
> news:Bu_p9.12276$I8.255224_at_nlnews00.chello.com...
> > Forms is NOT difficult. Believe me.
> > But you MUST read and test...
> >
> > I want to mention that Forms connects perfect to Oracle.
> > It is in a way "a perfect couple".
> >
> > Besides that: take all Oracle products, then support would not point to
> "the
> > other product"
> >
> >
> >
> > "Nick" <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net> wrote in message
> > news:WJyp9.14586$Sr6.462746_at_ozemail.com.au...
> > > Hi Daniel
> > >
> > > You got me wrong. I compared Access (with VBA) with Forms (with
PL/SQL)
> as
> > a
> > > front-end developing tool.
> > > There is no way Access can compare with Oracle as a RDBMS
> > >
> > > I admit that as a newbie, my codes are inevitably lengthy and not so
> > > concise. But I also doubt that it can be shrunk to that size of a few
> > > hundred lines.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > >
> > >
> > > "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3DA5C599.4DE12E47_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > > Nick wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just done (yeah, almost, unless some bugs discovered) my first app
> in
> > > Oracle
> > > > > Forms 6i
> > > > > It's a pretty simple system and yet I needed to code around 2,000
> > lines
> > > > >
> > > > > Having used Access for some time, my impression is that Access
wins
> > > hands
> > > > > down in developing front-ends.
> > > > >
> > > > > Forms 6i has a lot of small annoyance, and not as intuitive as
> Access.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can someone give me a reason or two I should still stick with
Forms
> > > then?
> > > > >
> > > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > > My impression is that like most newbies you wrote 1900 lines of
> > > superfluous code
> > > > because you didn't know how to take advantage of built-in
capabilities
> > > like
> > > > inheritance.
> > > >
> > > > I just finished a Forms application for an organization of about
1,800
> > > people
> > > > involving work flow management, time keeping, and billing and doubt
I
> > > wrote more
> > > > than 500. And anytime you can get 1800 people simultaneously working
> > with
> > > your
> > > > Access database ... write a paper about it and have it published.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel Morgan
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 11:51:10 CDT

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