Re: Oracle Forms 4.0 vs 4.5

Futher more, Oracle put out some crap that was annoying me all the time:

• Poplists now can be populated by a record group.
• The root-window is no longer required.
• The status line (called console view) is no longer required.
• You can open the same form several times (within the same session or with a new session).
• VBX-controls (if you dare ;-)
• "mirror-items", allowing to display an item as multiple-row and single-row at the same time (or on different canvases). We use this to let the user switch between a single- or multiple-row display of the current block. You don't need to add any code!
• improved redraw performance, especially in multiple-row blocks.
• mouse event programming (eg: double-clicking on a record brings up some extra information on a stacked canvas). Cool.
• therefore ability to code some drag and drop functions (difficult!).

I migrated to 4.5 last week. No need to say I'm somewhat enthusiastic about this little thingy.

(although no one would could answer my little question about passing a great amount of data between two forms without using a table.)

Have fun and migrate!

Dirk

Dirk Moebius                        moebius_at_informatik.uni-bonn.de
Oracle Software Development
BAYER AG, Leverkusen                Phone: +49 214 30-3432