Re: Search in FORMS5

The way I do it is to cut and paste all prog units into a new library and convert the lib to a text file (.pld) then search that!!

I agree, Oracle really have not produced the goods here...Its a half-hearted attempt that drags down the product overall..the search facility is no better than forms 4.5 - actually it's worse because it GPFs all the time, so much so that I *never* use it.

[Quoted] Talking of half-hearted attempts....have you seen the new PL/SQL editor in forms6!!! what a waste of time....You can't configure any of it eg no ability to set the level of identation ie no of spaces - its either 2 or 2...and for those of us who try to follow the 'feuerstein (3 char) way' its [Quoted] a big inconvienience since you can't switch it off.

Cheers

Graeme King
Oracle Developer
Glasgow, Scotland

<rtproffitt_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7qjhab$ncs$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I, too, have found the Forms 5 search feature wholly
> inadequate. I have supplemented text searches by
> loading the FMB file into a text editor like KEDIT
> and search there...although the binary portions
> cannot be read, I can usually narrow down my search,
> then return to the Object navigator and look at the
> items in detail...
>
> I like File Admin idea, even though like the above
> it still requires two editors: Forms 5 and a Text editor.
>
> Robert Proffitt
>
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Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 22:41:07 CEST