Re: Forms 4.5 Question--"File Open" dialog box???

[Quoted] If you have release 4.5.6.5.5 for Windows 3.11, Oracle supply a reusable component that will allow you to do this.

The component is stored in the library dk2wfile.pll. You will also require the dk2wfile.dll file. They are located in:

       <Oracle Home Dir>\FORMS45\DEMOS\REUSE

If you do have them on your system, don't forget to copy the dll in to a directory in your directory seach path, e.g c:\windows, and make sure that your library is in the appropriate FORMS45_PATH in the oracle.ini file.

If you can't find these files e-mail me.

It works using the ORA_FFI package.

mboduch_at_interaccess.com wrote in article <32b4d83f.32427057_at_nntp.interaccess.com>...
> After many years of working with the Oracle C/S tools I suddenly find
> myself at a loss for a solution to what would seem to be a trivial
> problem.
>
> I'm using the text_io built-in package to access ASCII data on a DOS
> FAT filesystem and I'd like to be able to allow the user of the
> application to specify the location and name of the file by using a
> standard windows dialog box (just like every other windows program
> allows--you know, select your drive, then your directory, then the
> filename.) I just can't seem to figure out a decent way to do it in
> Forms 4.5. My first thought was to use a VBX control if only I could
> locate the appropriate VBX. I tried cmdialog.vbx and got absolutely
> nowhere (of course I could have been doing something wrong.)
>
> I believe that Oracle intends to natively support this functionality
> in a future release of the tool, but for now I'm left hanging.
>
> If anyone knows of a relatively clean way of doing this (short of,
> say, using Excel's method via OLE,) I'd really appreciate hearing
> about it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help offered.
>
> Mike
>
  Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET