Re: Form Freeze/White Outs

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> In article <5lcrp4$rqo_at_lace.colorado.edu>,
> Jenny Farnham <farnham_at_spot.Colorado.EDU> wrote:
> >We have a Forms 4.5 application running on Unix and
> >on NT. Both platforms experience "freeze ups" where
> >the forms are no longer functioning to the user.
> >The user can still use their system just not
> >the Forms 4.5 windows. They usually kill that
> >process and start all over again.
> >
> >Has anyone experienced this? Sometimes when the
> >forms "freeze"... the fields turn white, blanking
> >out data and boilerplate text disappears too.

We also had this problem running on an HP, with Forms 4.5. We finally determined that it was a sychronization problem -- when the form went off to do a long running job, and then you
opened another application over the top of the forms window. When you close the overlapping application, it doesn't redraw the Forms 4.5 screens. It will eventually come back, as long as the server is processing correctly.

Check for errors on the server, and it if is just a long running job, the screens will come back -- cancelling can actually compound the problem and cause locking in the db.

Robin

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