Re: Substitution of a standard ORACLE Forms LOV
From: Paul Dorsey <pdorsey.dulcian_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 14 May 1998 10:46:44 GMT
Message-ID: <6jei2k$isu_at_bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>
Date: 14 May 1998 10:46:44 GMT
Message-ID: <6jei2k$isu_at_bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>
Timers is the right approach. We did that way and it worked out fine.
-- Paul Dorsey Dulcian, Inc. www.dulcian.com 212 595 7223 Boris Levinan <levbal_at_abest.com> wrote in article <6jdqd7$hbb$1_at_news12.ispnews.com>...Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 12:46:44 CEST
> Hello,
> I need to substitute the standard ORACLE Forms 4.5 LOV with a kind of
LOV
> that is usually used in each Microsoft Help (and in Developer/2000's Help
> too) - search by index. I heard that this search is called "type ahead".
> The point is : if you type several letters in a text box you'll see
> immediately the list of items in a multiple line box and the first item
in
> this list starts with these letters. So, list of item is immediately
changed
> according to new typed letters in the text box.
> In Visual Basic we can create such a search using the events KeyDown or
> KeyPress.
> Is it any triggers in Forms 4.5 that fire on Key Down or Key Press ( I
mean
> letter Key on keyboard) ?
> I couldn't find such a trigger and used the repeated timer, but I had
some
> difficulties and was not satisfied with the result.
> Has anyone had experience in doing this ?
> If someone can help me I would be really appreciated.
> Irina Balinskaya
> (levbal_at_abest.com)
>
>
>