Forms 4.5: Multiline Text Item won't scroll

Hello,

I'm having a little fight with Forms currently, and would appreciate very much if anyone could provide a hint. My problem is as follows:

I am implementing an import interface for data from flat ASCII files. All actions are controlled from a 'Start import job' screen. In this screen I've written a package that performs the necessary steps, these are for example calling a db package for some initialization tasks, checking some prerequisites, calling SQL*Loader for importing into a working table, calling another db package to import into the actual tables from the working table and finally calling SQL*Plus to generate an import protocol.

Because each of these steps can go wrong (and to give the user the feedback that he is waiting so long because a complex task is being performed :-) ) I've put a multiline text item in a control block and on the main canvas which gets populated with various progress messages, and eventually error messages by my forms package. The problem is that as long as the procedure is running, this multiline item does not scroll to the last line although I do a 'SYNCHRONIZE', i.e. it fills the top of this item and than it stays in the top area; so the user needs to scroll down when the procedure is finished.

Is there any way to make a multiline item scoll programmatically ? I've searched through the docs but to no avail.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

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Peter Schneider
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