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Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508565]

Mon, 23 May 2011 03:50

ankur8819
Messages: 17
Registered: May 2011
Location: India

Junior Member

Hi,
I have a situation where one form calls another. I am opening the other form(say B) using the below code.

declare
temp_form formmodule;
begin
temp_form := FIND_FORM ('D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE');

IF NOT ID_NULL (temp_form)
THEN
--message('17');
GO_FORM ('D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE');
ELSE
call_form( 'D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE' ) ;
end if;

end;

On Form B there is an Exit button on click of which it closes the Form B and returns to Form A

begin
close_form('MODULE3_MULTIPLE') ;
end;

In my scenario on Exit from FORM B i need to enable a button on FORM A.
I am not able to capture the trigger that fires when I Press the Exit.
Can anybody help.
please suggest me some solution to this problem.

Thanks in Advance
Ankur

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Re: Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508572 is a reply to message #508565]

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:33

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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Did you try to enable it at the end of the first piece of code you posted?

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Re: Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508576 is a reply to message #508572]

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:39

ankur8819
Messages: 17
Registered: May 2011
Location: India

Junior Member

yeah..but it gave me an error saying 'No reference found to the item being referred'
I guess as the button I want to enable is on a block on the FORM A.so FORM B cant access it.

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Re: Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508579 is a reply to message #508576]

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:46

Littlefoot
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The first code belongs to Form_A, so - how can it NOT reference an item in Form_A? What I meant was:

declare
  temp_form formmodule;
begin
  temp_form := FIND_FORM ('D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE');

  IF NOT ID_NULL (temp_form) THEN
     GO_FORM ('D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE');
  ELSE
     call_form( 'D:\RSSQ2\Testingpurposes\MODULE3_MULTIPLE' ) ;
  end if;

  -- ENABLE THE BUTTON HERE!
  SET_ITEM_PROPERTY(...);
end;

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Re: Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508580 is a reply to message #508579]

Mon, 23 May 2011 04:54

ankur8819
Messages: 17
Registered: May 2011
Location: India

Junior Member

Thanks for the reply.
In my scenario,the user goes to Form B.Some logic runs on Form B.If that logic runs successfully, only then I need to enable the
button.
In the solution suggested by you,the button will be enabled as soon as I move from FORM A to FORM B.

Is there any other way (any trigger that fires when I land back to Form A) by which I can implement this functionality?

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Re: Help in Oracle Forms 6i [message #508582 is a reply to message #508580]

Mon, 23 May 2011 05:02

Littlefoot
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You never mentioned that it should be enabled ONLY IF certain condition is met.

OK; in that case, you'll have to let the Form_A *know* that something changed in Form_B. If that "change" is reflected within the database, you could query that table and decide what to do. Otherwise, create a global variable. Set its value in Form_B and check it in Form_A.

Both evaluations should be done at the same place I suggested earlier ("-- ENABLE THE BUTTON HERE!").

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