Re: question: Object Groups versus Object Libraries

I talked with Oracle Support. Apparently it will make no difference whether we use Object Groups or Object Libraries as far as functionality is concerned. We will get the same functionality so we have decided to stay with Object Groups for the existing converted forms.

New development will probably use Object Librarires so we get the advantage of the Library automatically opening when we use Form Builder.

Babette Turner-Underwood, TMI Communications babettet_at_tmi.ca.NOSPAM (remove appropriate part to e-mail me)

Babette Turner-Underwood wrote in message ...
>Hello all!
>
>We are in the middle of converting (or trying to) an application
>from 16bit Forms 4.5 to Forms 5.0 (Dev2k 2.1 on Win95).
>The existing forms make use of a "template.fmb" that is has
>an "object group" with a button toolbar and a few other items.
>This "object group" is then copied by reference into EVERY
>other form.
>
>Has anyone looked at the benefits of object libraries
>versus object groups. At first I thought I would replace the
>object group by creating an object library, copying everything
>in the object group to the object library and then deleting the
>reference to object group and replacing it with the reference
>to the object library. (The template also had some form
>level triggers like "key-up", "key-entqry", "key-exeqry",
>and "when -new-form-instance" which I also copied to the
>object library).
>
>Well after doing a single form, I realized this is going to be
>WAY WAY Way way ... too much work to replace the
>object group using an object library. So, can anyone
>explain to me the advantages / disadvantages of leaving
>the object group instead of an object library?
>
>Also, we want to reverse-engineer these forms into Des2k
>and then forward generate them after we make a few
>minor changes.
>
>Many thanks
>Babette Turner-Underwood (babettet_at_tmi.ca)
>
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 18:40:30 CET