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newbie oracle forms & .pll problem

From: Andreas Zimmermann <Zimmermann_at_Lippmann-Soldan.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:35:14 +0200
Message-ID: <cahon1$amf$04$1@news.t-online.com>


hi all,

first of all, i'm new to this newsgroup stuff, so if there is anything wrong in style, language or whatever - forgive me pls and help my anyways ... ;)

i'm an intern doing oracle & network administration plus oracle forms & report development atm (i'm ocp dba and have experience in db development too but am a newbie to oracle forms & reports) - just to introduce myself.

recurrencing to my prob, here is the setup i use in office ...

laptop comp: x86 family 6 model 8 stepping 3 with 256 mb ram, OS: Win 2k vers. 5.00.2195, SP 2 including hotfixes

oracle server: 8.1.7.0.0
oracle forms: 6.0.8.23.2

both on same machine for development

i have to make some changes to a running custumer's form including a new menu item and a new form plus db changes & stuff - and here my problem starts:

on form load existing .fmb into forms builder i get following msgs ...

when i try to run the form then, there are some toolbars missing and the positioning of the canvases is totally messed up - but the form itself compiles without errors. seems some triggers and canvases are missing (or invalid) ... :-/

first i looked up oracle docs for error msgs, what obviously did not really help me (guess you know what i mean if you ever looked that up).

then i checked db user and db itself for missing authorisations, errors and stuff ... db is ok (at least the published version of the aplication runs without any probs on it) and the user has all rights on db (including oracle dba as well as application dba).

after examining that i found out that there is a .pll library attached to the form that is called 'reform.pll' so i figured that the initial probs come from it (look at error msgs at the end), might being corrupted or just in wrong path ... after recompiling it (converted it to text and back to binary after checking for obvious errors) and checking registry for path (forms60_path in windows registry is set to directory where it is located) i started the form again and it was still the same (also same on loading fmb again).

now i tried to detach and re-attach that .pll to the form but i always got the following error msg:

Attached Library Name

C:\[path]\reform.pll

contains a non-portable directory specification.

Remove path ?

Yes No

no matter wether i remove it or not (tried out both) - the errors still occur ... i browsed through some msg-boards to find something about that, but didn't get anything but the path thingy i already checked (see above) ... it also does not work if i copy the mentioned pll into the directory where the form itself is located (that's where it is located in runtime environment - checked that out on phone with the customer).

unfortunatley i'm the only one used to oracle on business ... none of the original developers is within reach and the customer wants the changes done - so i decided to post here and ask for help !

does anyone have an idea what to do ?! thx in advance ...

kind regards

Andreas Zimmermann

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Error messages FRM-18108: 

Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: POST-TEXT-ITEM
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: WHEN-MOUSE-CLICK
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: WHEN-MOUSE-DOUBLECLICK
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: WHEN-TIMER-EXPIRED
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: WHEN-WINDOW-CLOSED
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: QUESTION_SECURE
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: HORIZ_MDI
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: EXTND_MDI
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: HORIZ_MDI
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: PAGE_0
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: CURRENT_MULTI
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: CURRENT_MULTI_CHAR
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: CURRENT_MULTI_NUMBER
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: CURRENT_PAGES
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: FIELDS_CHAR
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: FIELDS_NUMBER
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: LOVS
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: PAGES
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: SHADOWS
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: TOOLBARS
Source Module:REFORM
  Source Object: ROOT_WINDOW
  
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Received on Sun Jun 13 2004 - 09:35:14 CDT

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