Re: Increased size of FMBs saved in Forms 4.5?

porus_at_ozemail.com.au wrote:

>Hello Oracle users,
 

> I have been experiencing the foll. oddity - old Forms 4.0 fmbs opened,
>compiled, generated and saved in Forms 4.5.6 (Dev 2000) suddenly increase in
>size to about 4 times more than before. eg. a 660KB file changed to 2.3MB in
>size, and a 57KB file became 220KB! Anyone else observed this problem, or is it
>something specific to my installation?

I gets worse. FMBs tend to get bigger during development as objects that are deleted are not actually removed from the form. This is, aparently, a known bug. Oracle has suggested saving to the database, closing the form and reading in from the database again - then saving to disk. I have noticed that this has some affect on file size - but it quickly blows out again as development continues. Sometimes the procedure make little or no difference. A colleague has taken to copying objects into a freshly created form. This makes some difference, but again, size quckly bolws out again.  

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