Forms GUI

[Quoted] Hello everyone, I'm new to Forms and PL/SQL but know my way around with Java and SQL.

I'm translating a forms application from German to English, and I've been given a form which is basically the result of a query on all text strings in the application, which are stored in a table.

Now, the developer of that form didn't realise that it's actually very difficult to translate without context, as a german word can have 3 or 4 possible english meanings, often all rather different.

What I'd like to do is build something where I have the standard application GUI displayed, with another block below it. When I click on a piece of text in the GUI I'd like it to pop up the relevant text in my block at the bottom (every text block has a unique id number), then I can get on with translation.

Is it possible to go to this level of abstraction in Forms (they're using Forms 6), using a Form itself as my data source instead of a table? The GUI doesn't have to be functional, I just want to be able to see the form I'm translating from. Alternatively, I'd be quite happy to write it in Java if there's a way to get at the forms from Java.

Sorry if I've asked easy questions, I've been given no books and no help here, just sat down by that string query I mentioned earlier and told to translate!

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