Re: Another Forms 4.5 hack discovered ?

Walter Zimmer wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I have a problem in Forms, and it seems that there is no acceptable
> solution to it.
>
> Before a query I want to clear other blocks. So, I place a CLEAR_BLOCK
>
> before the ENTER_QUERY and everything is fine - thats what I thought.
> The problem is if the block to clear is changed, the alert where
> you can choose if you want to keep the date, discard it or to cancel
> the whole thing appears. Now, how do I know when the user presses
> cancel, beacuse in the two other cases everything is fine, but in this
>
> case I want to cancel the search. Right now the search is done (and
> the
> block discarded) when I press CANCEL !
>
> FORMS_SUCCESS is of no use, CLEAR_BLOCK doesn't give back its state,
> so
> I guess I end up programming all the behaviour again with my own
> alert.
> Thats would be very sad, because it shows again that oracles focus
> is not in every respect to deliver a product which has 'unbeatable
> productivity' and which lets you develop 'applications in minutes,
> without writing a single line of code' (taken from the package)
>
> Any other solutions ?
>
> Many thanks,
> Walter Zimmer
>
> walter.zimmer_at_rz.uni-ulm.de
> Forms 4.5.7.1.2 developer (solaris, NT)

 Use 'CLEAR_BLOCK (NO_VALIDATE); ' Received on Mon May 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST