Re: a show of hands please, how many people use Oracle Forms for real apps?

Daniel,
[Quoted]   I developed this canvas, a block, an alert and an on-error event in a test bed form, where it works as desired.

  I then copied the event, block, canvas and alert to an object library. My first attempt at this for some unknown reason would result in a canvas that was .64x.48 instead of 640x480, but for some reason it stopped doing that. And that gives me all sorts of warm and fuzzies.

  From there I started a new form, opened the obj lib and copied, without subclassing, to the new form the alert, event, block and canvas. On the new form it works as I described. I checked all the items in the block and they point to the canvas. The canvas points to the window in the new form. If I use the block menu to switch the data appears.

  I checked the online help and the documents installed when forms was loaded and there are no gotchas indicated like with doing a disable on an item (how wude).

  I wonder what kind of development environment people are using with Forms to have such glowing words for the product. On Win98 and as far as I know all the patches for forms, we are regularly plagued by: low memory from some sort of leak meaning we have to save the form, shutdown forms, start forms and reload the form; sometimes the wrong canvas comes up when first run, the only way to clear this is tot reboot; gotta be sure to do a full compile right after loading the form or unpredicable results occur at run time (it is like it doesn't recompile everything if you just do a run), and a host of other little things (I'm leaving out my personal predjudice for Delphi, really I am).

Thank you for any and all help.

"Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3C646786.11558302_at_exesolutions.com...
> This is an very commonly used tools in large corporations. I have used it
> extensively at Boeing and AT&T and am currently using it in multiple
> applications, both under development and upgrades, for the City of Seattle
> Washington.
>
> Developer (IDS) is like any other tool. You must learn to think the way
the
> tool works. Once you do ... it is intuitive. Until then ... it is ugly.
>
> Likely you have not assigned your data block to the correct canvas but it
is
> hard to say from here.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
> Scott Mattes wrote:
>
> > I am having one of those 'I can't believe this tool" days and again am
> > wondering if people really get anything productive done with it.
> >
> > Today's misadventure: on my system if I do a hide_view, the next time I
do
> > a show_view the canvas and the prompts appear, but none of the data. I
can
> > see the data during debug, but it doesn't show on the screen.
> >
> > My version information:
> >
> > Forms [32 Bit] Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> > Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> > With the Partitioning option
> > JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> > Oracle Toolkit Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> > PL/SQL Version 8.0.6.0.0 (Production)
> > Oracle Procedure Builder V6.0.8.12.1 Build #520 - Production
> > PL/SQL Editor (c) WinMain Software (www.winmain.com), v1.0 (Production)
> > Oracle Query Builder 6.0.7.0.0 - Production
> > Oracle Virtual Graphics System Version 6.0.5.36.0 (Production)
> > Oracle Tools GUI Utilities Version 6.0.5.35.0 (Production)
> > Oracle Multimedia Version 6.0.5.34.0 (Production)
> > Oracle Tools Integration Version 6.0.8.10.2 (Production)
> > Oracle Tools Common Area Version 6.0.5.32.1
> > Oracle CORE Version 4.0.6.0.0 - Production
>
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 22:49:15 CET