Re: Problems in Forms 4.5 to 5.0 conversion

My experience is that the scroll bar DO appear after conversion. I tried to auto-hide my user's task bar in Windows95 so that the scroll bar will not be activated.

Wish that you could find a better way.

Babette Turner-Underwood wrote:

> We have an application developed in 16-bit Forms 4.5
> I have opened each of the forms using Forms Builder 5.0.
> Doing this will cause an automatic conversion of forms to
> occur. Everything seemed to go well. There were a few
> prompts about converting from CHAR to VARCHAR2, etc.
>
> However, when I RAN the Forms 5.0 version, there was
> a problem with the display. The Forms 4.5 were created
> to completed fill the screen, using 800x600 resolution.
> When I run the Forms 5.0 version, under the same
> resolution, scroll bars have been added which block part
> of the canvas view.
>
> I checked the size of the canvas and form and both are
> identical under Forms 4.5 and Forms 5.0 (that is 20.95
> width and 12.6 height). If I go into the form and change
> the canvas to 12.5 height, everything is fine in Forms 5.0
> (but this is on the first "splash screen" form, and I do not
> want to have to go in and play with canvases, windows,
> etc for ALL of my forms).
>
> I have contacted Oracle Support and they have not heard
> of anything like this. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Many Thanks
> Babette Turner-Underwood, TMI Communications
> babettet_at_tmi.ca.NOSPAM (remove appropriate part to e-mail me)
Received on Tue Dec 15 1998 - 08:10:04 CET