Re: multiple Oracle forms 4.5 applications under Windows

sdash_at_adam.com.au (Stephen Dash) writes:
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: The problem is with two forms 4.5 applications running at the same
: time. The first aplication may be built to use 'Ms Sans Serif' wheras
: another may use 'System'. The 'default_font' has to be different in
: both cases but cannot as there cannot be two values. As to using
: specific fonts for items, in 4.5.5 If you use a custom, visual
: attribute or property class you lost gray backgrounds on the alerts
: and LOV's. ie we had to use default_font just to maintain the
: aesthetic's. This has been half fixed in 4.5.6 for custom and visual
: attributes but still does not work for property classes. (specifically
: black foreground, gray background, tranparent fill produces different
: behaviour from forms4.5.6 between the custom/visual attributes and
: property classes - when it should mimic the standard windows look).

We use property classes and visual attributes extensively, and this is one of the irritating bugs in Forms 4.5.5. Setting the color Display properties in property classes doesn't work - Forms loses/ignores the settings. Things are even worse with if a property class includes a visual attribute - the Designer GPFs when that property class is referenced in an object group from another form.

I was hoping Forms 4.5.6 would solve these problems (and the Layout Editor "Application Error"). Doesn't sound like it!

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