Re: Oracle Forms tutorial

nimonic wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message
>
> >And the books are terrible too.
> >
> > The best way to approach forms is to start off buildinging visual attributes.
> > Then inherit the visual attributes into property classes.
> > Then build a single form encapsulating the property classes.
> > Then inherit from that form into the final application.
> >
> > Not that this is something that works with initial learning except in a
> > classroom environment. But it is the mental picture you should have as you
> > explore the product.
>
> I do not agree that "Oracle Developer Advanced Forms and Reports" is a
> terrible book. It is an excellent book and a credit to Peter Koletzke
> and Paul Dorsey. It is not a beginners book however. Wait until you
> have a good deal of Forms experience before you read it but I highly
> recommend that you do read it.

[Quoted] My comment was generic, not specific, as I don't have Kolezke's book.

[Quoted] Do me a favor though if you wouldn't mind ... look up in the index and table of [Quoted] [Quoted] contents how to make a trigger perform its default behavior before executing your [Quoted] code vs. executing your trigger code in place of its default behavior. Please let me
[Quoted] [Quoted] know how, or if, they index this topic. Thanks.

My problem with most of these books, no make it all of them, is that the books are [Quoted] [Quoted] fine while you are reading them cover to cover but useless for looking up how to do [Quoted] something after that initial read.

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