Re: Oracle's 'Working...' Message - Can it be simulated?

In article <77875_at_hydra.gatech.EDU> iadt3mk_at_prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kustermann) writes:
>Has anyone ever tried to simulate the Oracle message 'Working...' which
>is automatically displayed when committing a transaction (on a form)?
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>Thank you for suggestions.
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In almost all the forms I build I create a block called special. It is not a database table and it hold special fields. Like a one liner at the bottom of each page. I use it for messages. The user will not have to ack them and I can use it to test what my last message was. So to display something I do:
:special.pg1message := 'test text';
It works ok but you may have to do things like go_block and go_page to flush it to display.

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