Re: a show of hands please, how many people use Oracle Forms for real apps?

[Quoted] This is an very commonly used tools in large corporations. I have used it extensively at Boeing and AT&T and am currently using it in multiple applications, both under development and upgrades, for the City of Seattle Washington.

Developer (IDS) is like any other tool. You must learn to think the way the [Quoted] tool works. Once you do ... it is intuitive. Until then ... it is ugly.

Likely you have not assigned your data block to the correct canvas but it is [Quoted] hard to say from here.

Daniel Morgan

Scott Mattes wrote:

> I am having one of those 'I can't believe this tool" days and again am
> wondering if people really get anything productive done with it.
>
> Today's misadventure: on my system if I do a hide_view, the next time I do
> a show_view the canvas and the prompts appear, but none of the data. I can
> see the data during debug, but it doesn't show on the screen.
>
> My version information:
>
> Forms [32 Bit] Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning option
> JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> Oracle Toolkit Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> PL/SQL Version 8.0.6.0.0 (Production)
> Oracle Procedure Builder V6.0.8.12.1 Build #520 - Production
> PL/SQL Editor (c) WinMain Software (www.winmain.com), v1.0 (Production)
> Oracle Query Builder 6.0.7.0.0 - Production
> Oracle Virtual Graphics System Version 6.0.5.36.0 (Production)
> Oracle Tools GUI Utilities Version 6.0.5.35.0 (Production)
> Oracle Multimedia Version 6.0.5.34.0 (Production)
> Oracle Tools Integration Version 6.0.8.10.2 (Production)
> Oracle Tools Common Area Version 6.0.5.32.1
> Oracle CORE Version 4.0.6.0.0 - Production
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 01:04:22 CET