Re: Default Parameters in Procedures

In <1993Jun28.001527.29169_at_ml.csiro.au> jstander_at_ml.csiro.au (Jeff Stander) writes:
>In article Avx_at_uk.ac.brookes, p0070621_at_oxford-brookes.ac.uk (Tommy Wareing) writes:
>>Does anyone else get fed up with the Search/Search & Replace
>>facility in the SQL*Forms 3 editor?
 

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>I find that I mostly use sqlforms 3.0 for the screen painter and initial
>creation of the form. Nearly all other work on the form is done with my
>usual editor ('vi') on the *.inp file. Oracle Support chastises me for doing
>this but I find its far easier to hack the .inp file.

Well they do repeat many times in the manual that editing the *.inp file is un-supported.

>Am I wrong in suspecting many others do the same?

You mean like the Oracle consultants I've worked with? They were pretty quick to go at a *.inp file with and editor.

Since Forms 2, I've always used what I felt was most appropriate to what I was trying to do. That means the forms designer when that gives me what I want and an editor if it doesnt. If Oracle came up with a Forms designer that allowed me to do global search and replace, then I would start to think about not editing the inp file. Until then, I'll continue with an editor.

Regards

Ian

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