Re: Can an Oracle Form be Dynamically built/re-arranged at Runtime?

Brit Willoughby wrote:
>
> We are considering using Oracle Tools (Dev2K, Forms, ect...) to
> create a Web interface to an Oracle database.
>
> Some of the data has more and different types of properties, than
> other data. This means that if I query the data for
> a part, I may have 25 fields with 25 names, another part may have 15
> fields with 15 different names. I need to create
> a form/page that is dynamically created that will accomodate all
> possible parts without knowing how many properties
> (fields & field names) that part has in advance (the fieldnames are
> queried from a table and a select statement to retreive
> the data is created from that on the fly).
>
>
> Brit Willoughby
> bwilloughby_at_Lucent.com

Developer/2000 Release 2 (and 2.1) contains an Open Api which allows to create form modules (.fmb files) using C or C++. I've never tried it, and I don't know if it will be fast enough to create a form on the fly, but you can always try.

Marc Billiet Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 07:40:14 CEST