Re: Problem with messages using Forms 6i

Jan Schaefer <jan.schaefer_at_kksl.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in news:ashugr$8f9$1_at_news.uni-leipzig.de:

> Thomas Mitchell wrote:
>> I'm using Oracle's Forms Developer 6i for developing an application
>> on SunOS.
>>
>> I have the following problem: After I have just startet the
>> application, no messages or hints are displayed. Even error-messages
>> are not shown. After I have activated the one or other form, then, if
>> I'm lucky, messages start displaying normaly. I have no idea what the
>> problem is. Can someone relate to this problem? Thanks in advance,
>
> Two thoughts that come to my mind:
>
> 1.) Messages are displayed in the status bar on the lower left. They
> are only shown as message boxes when two messages appear in one
> trigger. Use show_alert instead.
>

Those are the kind of messages I'm trying to create, messages in the status bar, but they just don't show up.

> 2.) Sometimes other status messages override your messages (e.g. when
> you have specified a hint for a menu entry in the property palette).
>
> Hope that helps.
>

That's why I have even used the parameter ACKNOWLEDGE, but still messages won't appear. On Windows they do, just on SunOS they don't.  

> Jan
>
>

Thanks anyway. Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 11:17:21 CET