Re: Problems

Benjamin / Tracey,

Trick to grey-out a push button,

set_item_property('button-name',ENABLED,PROPERTY_FALSE);

This will grey out the push buttons, and then you can use PROPERTY_TRUE to enable (un-grey) them.

From another learner,
Farah

Tracey Berukoff wrote:
>
> Benjamin, The only way I know how to do this is to use a
> WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED trigger. For each of the buttons you wish to
> deactivate, you would have to put the following code into the trigger:
> if :SYSTEM.FORM_STATUS = 'CHANGED' THEN
> message('Please clear or save record....');
> raise form_trigger_failure;
> end if;
>
> (I may not have the correct syntax etc..)
> There is no way that I know of to 'grey out' or remove buttons from a
> canvas.
> Cheers, Tracey
>
> Benjamin H. Tay wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a new Oracle learner.....I have something would like to share with
> > someone....
> >
> > I was trying to build a form application with several text boxes, and
> > navigation buttons. However, I would like to enhance some security
> > integration as follows:
> >
> > *When I willingly or unwillingly change a data (when I hit the keyboard,
> > exclude mouse click to the text box), I would like to disable all the
> > navigation buttons (next, previous, first, and last), then CANCEL and SAVE
> > buttons will be active that can force users click one of them...So when I
> > click CANCEL will "clear_record" and SAVE will "commit_record".
> >
> > Can anyone help? In what trigger so I enforce? Any codes provided will be
> > greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Benjamin Tay
> > =======================
> > A New RDBMS Learner
> > ****************/////000\\\\\
Received on Mon Oct 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST