Re: UIFONT.ALI for Forms 6i in Windows XP

Hi Troy

Don't have an immediate solution to your problem I'm afraid. However Forms6i _is_ supported on Windows XP (they were not going to but changed their minds earlier in the year). Officially for XP you need to download and install Forms6i release 2 then patch it to patch 13 or greater. Forms6i release 2 can be downloaded from OTN here http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/forms/htdocs/winsoft.html

Before changing UIFONT.ALI (which is a 'world of pain' in my experience) I would check that you have the same fonts / languages installed in both systems and are running with standard fonts (ie not Large Fonts). The NLS_LANG settings seem to influence font selection too, so check this in the registry.

The only other thing I can think of is that XP can cause some issues as the XP GUI has a 'thicker' title bar.

KJP Troy Meyerink wrote:
> I am having a problem in Windows XP where the forms submenu titles are being
> cut off at the bottom of the text. I assume this is due to the UIFONT.ALI
> mappings in XP but I do not know what to change it to. The menus look fine
> in Windows 2000 and previous versions. I looked this up at metalink for
> Oracle, but Dev2k version 6i is unsupported and they would not help. Here is
> my current UIFONT.ALI file:
>
>
> /* MS-Windows Font Alias File */
>
>
> [ Global ]
>
> /* Convert JEUC to SJIS for all fonts since SJIS is the
> * only Japanese character set on Windows.
> */
> ......JEUC = .....SJIS
>
> /* Mac Fonts */
> "Avant Garde" = Arial
> "New Century Schlbk" = "Times New Roman"
> "New York" = "Times New Roman"
> Bookman = "Times New Roman"
> helvetica.10 = "ms sans serif".8
> helvetica.12 = "ms sans serif".10
> helvetica.14 = "ms sans serif".12
> helvetica.10 = "microsoft sans serif".8
> helvetica.12 = "microsoft sans serif".10
> helvetica.14 = "microsoft sans serif".12
>
> /* Motif fonts */
>
> lucidatypewriter = "Courier New"
> lucidabright = "Times New Roman"
> fixed = "Courier New"
>
>
>
> [ Printer ]
>
> /* Mac Fonts */
> "Avant Garde" = "Avant Garde"
> "New Century Schlbk" = "New Century Schoolbook"
>
> /* Motif fonts */
> courier = "Courier New"
> times = "Times New Roman"
>
> [ Display ]
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
>
> Troy Meyerink
> Oracle DBA
> SGT Inc. / EROS Data Center
> Sioux Falls, SD
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 31 2003 - 06:02:21 CET