Re: Questions about Oracle Forms 4.5

Dinis Paes wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have two questions about Oracle Forms 4.5:
>
> 1-
> In a table based block, how can I associate a text field with
> a column of the table? I can only have text fields associated
> with columns when I define the column as active in the
> New Block window, but I dont know how to do that for text fields
> added to an already existing block.
>

The text field must have the same name as the base table column, then you have to set the 'Base_Table' property to YES in the designer.

> 2-
>
> Can I have dialogs with tabs in Forms 4.5?
>

Not directly, but there are VBX (Visual basic) controls available which can be used with FORMS. There is an example of this in the DEMO applications.

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