Re: Important info about developing on win95 and deploying web forms on solaris

Do you have a bug number for this ?

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Regards

Jason

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  Jason Pepper - Enterprise Internet Tools Product Management
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Guy Dallaire <gdallair_at_criq.qc.ca> wrote in message
news:38a30844.76139302_at_news.risq.qc.ca...


> Hi to all,

>

> I just wanted to tell everybody here that if you are developing on

> windows 95 or NT and then deploy on solaris with web forms, you might

> have big problems with the way your forms look like once deployed on

> the web.

>

> Here is what we used to do:

>

> a) Design under win95, test in client server

> b) ftp (binary) the .fmb to the solaris server

> c) Regenerate the forms from the command line using f60gen in BATCH

> mode from a telnet session (terminal emulatuion, NO X windows)

> d) Test with a web browser

>

> We had A LOT of display and fonts ans sizing problems with the forms

> back then. We then discovered that the problems were not related to

> java at all as we taught they were ! The problem is with the f60gen

> utility from oracle which is not linked with the correct toolkit ! It

> is different than f60desm (designed to run under X windows)

>

> That will only be fixed on developper 6i (At least that's what THEY

> say, but you know THEM !)

>

> WorkAround/Fix:

>

> generate your forms with f60desm in batch mode or open

> the .fmb on solaris with f60desm and generate on solaris. You'll need

> an X terminal or an X terminal emulator to do this, even if you use

> BATCH mode.

>

> Hope this will help people

>

> P.S.: This is also true for developer server 2.1 (repacce f60... by


> f50...)