Re: Forms 5.0 binary module conversion

Sorry Torben...
Welcome to Oracle Forms...

The behavior is exactly as designed for Forms. The FMT files are designed to be a way to describe the binary in text format. Just like yourself, I wanted to search for text in multiple places... this is very difficult.

So, 1. you can't use FMT to search for text.... 2. You might be able to create Object List Reports for all 200 ??? modules. This is a text/english readable translation of the properties and triggers in forms. However, in Forms 5 I have had problems and at least 25% of the time the whole app crashes while creating the object report. I have not tested Forms 6 yet.

This leaves two less than adequate choices: 3. Search for text in the FMB files (or copies of them) using a binary editor. Problem is: when you locate the text, you cannot tell WHICH trigger contains it, except by deductive reasoning...

4. Search every module by hand :-(
The "Find" tool in Forms 5 only works within one PL/SQL window (one block of code) and does not search the whole module top to bottom, so you are forced to search again and again in every item...manually. :-( :-(

I have had limited success with method 3, searching in a binary editor (I just used KEDIT), then search the module carefully in Forms when I find a hit in KEDIT.

(By the way, when I first learned Forms, I hoped for an Engligh metalanguage for the entire module, which I could edit and import easily on large blocks of code, but NO SUCH LUCK....only Object List Report and FMT Files)

Good Luck
Robert Proffitt
Beckman Coulter
RTProffitt AT beckman DOT com

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Before you buy. Received on Fri Mar 31 2000 - 19:04:17 CEST