Re: Forms 3.0 => 4.5 Conversion ?

Edwin Sosa wrote:
>
> I work for a company called BDI, which works for an American company called Dev-Tech
> Migrations, we have developed a Visual-C tool (WORAGEN) to automatically upgrade INP
> files (Forms 3.0) to FMB, FMT, FMX files (Forms 4.5.5) and we have had upgrading
> times of 100 forms in 3 hours using Pentium PC's.
>
> The forms upgrading that we have done has particular characteristics, it means, the
> INP forms we have updagred are very standard, we know what blocks they contain, for
> some blocks we know exactly what fields to expect and the triggers usage is standard
> as well.
>
> We are making maximum usage of the object oriented programming that Oracle has put
> in Forms 4.5 concepts and design, in the way that I can say it could be configured
> to any company standards (it is absolutely necessary that the client company has
> used standards when developing in Forms 3.0 envinronment).
>
> Sometimes we can strip the generic triggers and procedures from the original INP
> files and add an object link in the FMB file to a generic Forms 4.5 trigger that has
> extended functionality.
>
> Using this object oriented programing we have developed an Object Group List that
> includes many Visual Attributes, Property Classes, Toolbar Blocks, Mouse Triggers,
> etc. And we have developed some Forms Dynamic Linked Libraries (PLL files) with
> procedures and packages that help to reduce the Forms 4.5 files size (FMB and FMX).
>
> We continue working to support the newest Forms 4.5 release (4.5.6.3.3) and have it
> ready in the following weeks.
>
> If you find this information useful for the company you are working with, e-mail me
> and I'll try to send you more information.

Actually, the newest release is now 4.5.6.5.5 (Developer 2000 r1.2)

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