Re: Any recommendable books about Forms ?

Jan Gelbrich wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask some experienced Forms developers if there is some
> *actual* and *useful*
> literature about Forms and Reports, that could also be helpful for
> *intermediates* ?
> Some books that explain how Forms and Reports really works, and how things
> can be done ?
>
> I have two books from Oracle Press, and I am not satisfied with them, they
> cover just some
> basics, and mostly they say *that* you can do this and that, but not exactly
> *how*, and no tips
> about be-awares and traps that You can fall in very quickly ... e.g. mixing
> up system modes in Forms
> or Groups and Frames in Reports. I miss the do´s and dont´s.
>
> Then I have the book from Bulushu Lakshman, which is still too high for me
> in many cases - the other extreme.
>
> The online manuals do not satisfy me either, it is like "here you have
> 10.000 bricks, go on build yourself a house ...".
>
> I have been searching for a long time, and there was nothing in my sight.
> Even O´Reilly has nothing...
>
> I would very much appreciate Your advices.
>
> Jan

IM-less-than-HO. No!

And if I have the time this coming Spring when I teach the Forms Class at the [Quoted] University of Washington ... I am going to write one during the class.

The current books, even when the contents are good, suffer from an index that is [Quoted] about as useful as a dictionary in which the words are in random order.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 17:04:56 CEST