Forms 5.0 Menu and form integrated system

From: Suresh Bhat <suresh.bhat_at_mitchell-energy.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:29:37 GMT
Message-ID: <01beccbe$43ba7be0$a504fa80_at_mndnet>

Hi -

We are planning to convert our Forms3.0/SQL*Menu5.0 to Oracle forms 5.0 using Oracle forms/menus.

I am building a prototype for our conversion.

What I want to do, is have a blank form, attach a menu and let it sit there throughout a user's session. The user then should have the ability to open as many forms from any of the menu items as he/she wishes.

I have built a blank form menuform.fmb which has no items at all. I attach the menu mymenu.mmb
to the blank form menuform.fmb. This works fine and I get mymenu.mmb items displayed on this blank form.

When I call another form, testform.fmb, from one of the items in the

menuform.fmb,
  mymenu.mmb in the menuform.fmb gets replaced by the default menu of form
testform.fmb     OR

  I do not get the default menu for the testform.fmb but I stiil have mymenu.mmb.

The above situations occurred when I used call_form and new_form with various paramters.

What I want is, whenever another form is called via a menu item, I want to display both mymenu.mmb and the default menu of the called form.

If any one has done this I would like to know the proper way of calling the form from the menu item.

Also, I could not get the run_product to work.

Thanks.

Suresh Received on Mon Jul 12 1999 - 23:29:37 CEST