Re: Dyanmic Positioning in Windows 3.1

From: Steven P. Muench <smuench_at_oracle.com>
Date: 09 Nov 1994 16:26:24 GMT
Message-ID: <SMUENCH.94Nov9082624_at_doh.oracle.com>

The Show_Lov() built-in can optionally take an (x,y) coord to draw the list at.

The Get_Item_Property(:System.Cursor_Item, X_POS)


                                         , Y_POS)


                                         , WIDTH)



can give you info on exactly where on the screen your user is

now, so that you can feed some calculation based on these back into the (x,y) coords of your Show_LOV() call to get it "near" the field using whatever your notion of "near" might mean -- i.e. to the left, to the right, below, above, etc.

We're considering a "Centered" and "Near" option on LOV's for a future release, but this should do the trick in the interim. If written properly, this logic can probably be thrown into a shared PL/SQL library and leverage throughout all of your forms.

--

Steve Muench         Email: smuench_at_oracle.com
Forms Development      CIS: 73404,676
Sr. Product Manager
Oracle Corporation

Received on Wed Nov 09 1994 - 17:26:24 CET