Re: creating text versions of .fmb files

"Hetal Patel" <hpatel_at_ftc.gov> wrote in message news:<M69o8.11$6W6.144_at_client>...
> Go to http://www.aug10.com They have very good products for searching the
> form modules. We use it very extensivley.
>
> "Scott Mattes" <ScottMattes_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:gdJm8.13295$Zr3.2973504_at_news1.news.adelphia.net...
> > So far the only way that I have found to convert .fmb to .fmt is worthless
> > for doing what I want, because the PL/SQL code is translated to hex!
> >
> >
> > "Jeff Greuel" <jgreuel_at_uoguelph.ca> wrote in message
> > news:a7fics$j37$1_at_testinfo.cs.uoguelph.ca...
> > > I've recently moved jobs from working with Developer 2000 with Forms
> 4.5
> > > (Win 98 against Oracle 8i/UNIX 11.0) to Developer 6.0 (Win2000Pro
> against
> > > Orcale8i/Unix 11.0).
> > >
> > > Two questions.....
> > >
> > > 1) With 4.5 my .fmt files were ASCII files that were text-searchable
> and
> as
> > > such I could easily do 'diffs' from generation to generation (using MKS
> > > Source Integrity or any number of diff utilities) to track changes.
> > >
> > > Is it in fact the case that .fmt files under Dev6.0 maintain the code of
> > > triggers and program units in some non-ascii format (okay ascii but
> numeric
> > > strings)?
> > >
> > > 2) Under 4.5 I also used the Forms Doc option to create .txt versions of
> > > forms that were also handy for doing searches on, I know this has been
> > > replaced with the Reports Doc option in Dev6.0 and for the most part it
> does
> > > work, however I seem to get certain .fmbs that crash when the .txt file
> hits
> > > the following sizes 16kb (16384 bytes), 32kb (32768 bytes), 500kb
> (512000
> > > bytes). Some files are created that exceed these sizes but it seems odd
> that
> > > these are dying at milestone byte sizes.
> > >
> > > The .txt files are created they just end in mid-line.
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this before?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

Oracle Project Builder (available as part of Forms 6i) has an option to convert an FMB file to text format. I'm not sure whether this is available in earlier version of Forms.

Regards,

Rajesh Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 11:54:44 CET