Re: URGENT ! Forms 3.0 To Forms 4.5

From: Dogan Cibiceli <dcib_at_gwl.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:36:10 -0600
Message-ID: <3783E46A.3BC0F986_at_gwl.com>


"J. Wegener NOSPAM" wrote:

> Kobayashi <ihamilton_at_awg.ie> skrev i en
> nyhedsmeddelelse:7lq57a$kg8$1_at_scotty.tinet.ie...
> > Are there any shareware utility programs out there that can assist me in
> > converting Forms 3.0 To Forms 4.5, especially with regard to V2 Triggers.
>
> My goodness, there are still some V2 triggers out there!
>
> In the not so glorious days of converting SQL*Forms 2.x to 3.0 there were
> several commercially available products, but I am not aware of any shareware
> products. I feel relatively certain that nobody is offering this as
> shareware as the commercial products were extremely expensive. Furthermore,
> the job of writing such a converter is difficult and I would hesitate before
> submitting my production code to a not-supported, shareware version. Even
> the commercial products I've used produced buggy code that were extremely
> difficult to track down afterwards.
>
> You may want to check www.kumaran.com. Another product was made by a company
> called PTI (Performance Technologies, Inc.??), if I remember it correctly.
>
> Please note that converting from F3 to F45 or later typically involves much
> more than simply converting V2 triggers; You may benefit from simply
> shredding you F3 forms and re-write it in F45.
>
> Cheers,
> Johan

Well,
[Quoted]   If I remember correcly, you should have gotten a conversion program with Forms 4.5 as well. I couldnot remember the name but it should be in there.

Dogan Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 01:36:10 CEST

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