Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-west.eli.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DA5C599.4DE12E47@exesolutions.com> From: Daniel Morgan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Just done my first app in Forms! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:23:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.74.250.7 X-Complaints-To: yvonne.tracy@ci.seattle.wa.us X-Trace: news-west.eli.net 1034274237 156.74.250.7 (Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:23:57 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:23:57 MDT Organization: City of Seattle NewsReader Service Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:87677 comp.databases.oracle.tools:54096 X-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:23:52 MST (news.easynews.com) Nick wrote: > Just done (yeah, almost, unless some bugs discovered) my first app in Oracle > Forms 6i > It's a pretty simple system and yet I needed to code around 2,000 lines > > Having used Access for some time, my impression is that Access wins hands > down in developing front-ends. > > Forms 6i has a lot of small annoyance, and not as intuitive as Access. > > Can someone give me a reason or two I should still stick with Forms then? > > Nick My impression is that like most newbies you wrote 1900 lines of superfluous code because you didn't know how to take advantage of built-in capabilities like inheritance. I just finished a Forms application for an organization of about 1,800 people involving work flow management, time keeping, and billing and doubt I wrote more than 500. And anytime you can get 1800 people simultaneously working with your Access database ... write a paper about it and have it published. Daniel Morgan