From: "Neville Sweet" Subject: Re: Forms 6 questions: boldfacing records.... Date: 2000/08/08 Message-ID: <8mo18t$1ab$1@gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au>#1/1 References: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 X-Complaints-To: usenet@itmel.bhp.com.au X-Trace: gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au 965707869 1355 134.18.60.63 (8 Aug 2000 04:11:09 GMT) Organization: BHP Company Ltd NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Aug 2000 04:11:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Hi Ron, Set_Item_Instance_Property will do this for you. Create bold-face and normal visual attributes and set appropriately. Unless there's a good reason I would avoid manually assigning values to non-base table items, because this is what the Post-Query trigger is designed for. Navigating around after query processing will affect performance. You can assign non-base table values and change bolding in the Post-Query and forget about a FOR LOOP. If there is a separate requirement to change the visual attribute when, say, a button is pressed, then because Set_Item_Instance_Property accepts record number as a parameter you can set bold-face without navigating through the records. If the above is no good to you then the trigger you are looking for is probably a When-New-Record-Instance trigger. please help wrote in message ... >Hello. >I've got a "FOR LOOP" cursor setup in Forms 6.0 that manually assigns values >to non-database fields on a canvas. I'm displaying about 15 records on the >canvas. Inside of the LOOP, I would like to have an IF statement that, when >true, will set the current record it is writing to bold face type, else set >it to regular type. > >Does anyone know how to do this? I could do it with a trigger if I was only >displaying one record at a time on the screen, but I need to be able to >display around 15. > >Thanks for any help. >Ron Watson >rwatson@kemron-lab.com > > > >