Re: FORMS: "head-piece" ("Gate") Screen

From: Wayne McKinney <wmckinney_at_tiainfo.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 12:42:49 -0800
Message-ID: <79TM2.5728$dF4.16928525_at_WReNphoon1>


I've seen this done before. When you first start out, create a logon form that's separate from the normal user/password/domain box. Have that be the first form your application calls. On that form, display the image that you want to. This can be done by having the image as the background of the form or as an image box. The trick, here, is that you need to have an enterable field in whatever form you make. That way, Oracle really will go to that field and display your background. Right at the startup of your form, start a timer that, for example, counts for 10 seconds. Have a trigger that catches that timer expiration event. That trigger does a call to your regular start up form (i.e. a menu type form or status form or whatever).

Again, the trick is to have an enterable field on the splash screen. However, don't allow any updates to those fields.

Try that and see how it works.

Received on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 22:42:49 CEST

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