Re: Where are icons really stored?

AKononov_at_pptk.energo.ru (Aleksandr Kononov) wrote in <db90604d.0105242231.3e77605f_at_posting.google.com>:

>UI_ICON
>

Thank you for your response.

I tried this, after creating the registry setting and then rebooting (just in case Oracle had the value cached and wouldn't clear). It didn't seem to find the icon that I put in the path I specified in UI_ICON. I think I'll try it again.

>By the way there is no reason to reboot your system after modification
>a registry variable. You must restart Form Builder or Forms Runtime.

Thank you for this tip!

>
>Regards,
>Aleksandr Kononov
>
>algernon_at_spamcop.net (Some One Else) wrote in message
>news:<90AB7A677algernonspamcopnet_at_24.0.3.73>...
>> I'm running Oracle forms 6 in Win 98/me. I have iconized buttons. In
>> order for the image to display in the button, I have to type in the
>> full path. This is annoying and not very portable. In the help file,
>> Oracle names several different paths where supposedly files will be
>> found by the run time engine: UI_ICON, UI60_ICON, ORACLE_PATH, etc.
>> I've tested almost a dozen of these, either by fiddling with the
>> variables in the registry (and of course rebooting) or by putting the
>> icons in existing named paths. Nothing has worked except specifying
>> the full path (which the Oracle documentation says you're not supposed
>> to do!).
>>
>> Has anyone gotten button icons to work with just the stem file names?
>>
>> Thanks!
  Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:44:21 CEST