Re: Problem with Jinitiator

From: Ashok Upadhyay <aupadhya_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:08:47 GMT
Message-ID: <36701B1D.118FA087_at_earthlink.net>


Modification in Test Case : By mistake I wrote when-new-item-instance trigger please read it when-validate-item trigger.

Thanks

Ashok Upadhyay wrote:

> Hi all I would like to Add something very interesting to my earlier
> posting Here it is :
>
> I found out that it happens when you have a mouse trigger (When mouse
> click or double click) attached with the Item in which you click your
> mouse.
> Test Case : Create a New form , have a block and two items A,B
> Attach a when-new-item-instance trigger with item A write one sentence
> Message(some message);Raise Form_Trigger_Failure; as the trigger code.
> Attach a Mouse Click or double click trigger and write null; as code. Run
> the form on web using Jinitiator, Netscape and appletviewer......With
> Jinitiator only you will get message (Of trigger when-val-item) in
> infinite Loop and you will have to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to close the
> form.
>
> If the mouse trigger is not attched with Item B form works fine.While
> running in Debug mode I found out that line Raise Form_Trigger_Failure
> gives unhandled exception
> PDE-PXC002 Program Unit Execution aborted due to unhandled exception
> (100501).
> My FOrm Version is 4.5.8.2 (Deve. Version 1.5.1).
> Any Commetns or Workarounds???
> Thanks Ashok
>
> Arjan van Bentem wrote:
>
> > Ashok Upadhyay wrote
> > > Has anybody encountered it before?
> >
> > No, but I still like to share some thoughts.
> >
> > We found that JInitiator is not too nice when using Internet Explorer.
> > We did not test this for Netscape, but the problem is that the user
> > may not close the initial JInitiator browser window. Well, fine, than
> > let's not close it. However, when a user clicks an internet shortcut
> > (say: oracle.com), Internet Explorer will use any open browser window
> > to open that shortcut. This way, the user easily forgets that the
> > current browser window also was the intial JInitiator browser window.
> > When the user now closes the oracle.com window, the Forms application
> > terminates :-(
> >
> > Arjan.
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 20:08:47 CET

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