Re: Forms 4.5 Full screen menus
Date: 1998/02/11
Message-ID: <6btjs6$gt0$1_at_winter.news.erols.com>#1/1
We are doing exactly what you described. Using Form 5.0 for the full screen menu and using tables to display menu details and managing access control.
Tommy Wareing wrote in message <34e1b06f.103455631_at_news.brookes.ac.uk>...
>We're finally beginning to convert from Form3 to 4.5 in earnest
>(having waffled for /months/).
>
>And we find that 4.5 doesn't handle Full screen menus properly.
>Specifically, they do not maintain context, so when you enter, and
>then exit a form, you're thrown back to the top level menu.
>
>Whilst this is the behaviour I'd expect from a pull-down menu, it's
>not what we're used to for full screen. Having reported it to Oracle,
>they claim that it's always worked that way (untrue), and that they're
>not going to be supporting full-screen menus much longer anyway.
>
>As a result, we're seriously considering writing our own menu
>appllication (possibly still using forms 4.5, but displaying the way
>WE want them to) reading the existing menu tables (so we can still
>claim compatability with designer 2k).
>
>I was wondering whether anybody had any experience, comments, or
>useful suggestions.
>
>--
>Tommy Wareing
>MIS Group
>Learning Resources
>Oxford Brookes University
>01865 483389
Received on Wed Feb 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CET