Re: Just done my first app in Forms!

From: Nick <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:08:06 +1000
Message-ID: <6Cbq9.15050$Sr6.485435_at_ozemail.com.au>


[Quoted] Stephan & others

Help me on this thread which was posted on 9/10/02: How to display a Word document in form?

Thanks
Nick

"Stephan" <test_at_test.com> wrote in message news:Bu_p9.12276$I8.255224_at_nlnews00.chello.com...
> Forms is NOT difficult. Believe me.
> But you MUST read and test...
>
> I want to mention that Forms connects perfect to Oracle.
> It is in a way "a perfect couple".
>
> Besides that: take all Oracle products, then support would not point to
"the
> other product"
>
>
>
> "Nick" <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net> wrote in message
> news:WJyp9.14586$Sr6.462746_at_ozemail.com.au...
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > You got me wrong. I compared Access (with VBA) with Forms (with PL/SQL)
as
> a
> > front-end developing tool.
> > There is no way Access can compare with Oracle as a RDBMS
> >
> > I admit that as a newbie, my codes are inevitably lengthy and not so
> > concise. But I also doubt that it can be shrunk to that size of a few
> > hundred lines.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > news:3DA5C599.4DE12E47_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > Nick wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just done (yeah, almost, unless some bugs discovered) my first app
in
> > Oracle
> > > > Forms 6i
> > > > It's a pretty simple system and yet I needed to code around 2,000
> lines
> > > >
> > > > Having used Access for some time, my impression is that Access wins
> > hands
> > > > down in developing front-ends.
> > > >
> > > > Forms 6i has a lot of small annoyance, and not as intuitive as
Access.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone give me a reason or two I should still stick with Forms
> > then?
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > >
> > > My impression is that like most newbies you wrote 1900 lines of
> > superfluous code
> > > because you didn't know how to take advantage of built-in capabilities
> > like
> > > inheritance.
> > >
> > > I just finished a Forms application for an organization of about 1,800
> > people
> > > involving work flow management, time keeping, and billing and doubt I
> > wrote more
> > > than 500. And anytime you can get 1800 people simultaneously working
> with
> > your
> > > Access database ... write a paper about it and have it published.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 12:08:06 CEST

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