Re: Forms 4.5 simulating Windows multiple record selection functionality

From: Robert Monical <monical_at_rmii.com>
Date: 1996/02/08
Message-ID: <4fbvbs$brl_at_natasha.rmii.com>#1/1


In article <3110E349.17A7_at_gmis.com>, gilljb_at_gmis.com says...
>
>I would like to implement the standard Windows multiple item selection
 functionality into an
>Oracle Forms 4.5 application. Forms does not support this functionality. I
 would like the user
>to be able to select a record in a multi-record text item block, and then
 either select another
>record while holding the shift key down (all records in between and
 including the two selected
>records would be highlighted and "marked") or select the second and
 subsequent non-contiguous
>records while holding down the control key. I would then want to be able to
 move all the
>"marked" or selected records to a separate block in the form. Simulating
 the highlighting used
>by Windows and being able to identify each of the marked records is key to
this functionality.

>E-mail: gilljb_at_gmis.com

We tried multiple select lists. Forms 5 is supposed to have this feature.

We ended using the checkbox approach. Received on Thu Feb 08 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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