Re: Having problems with Oraterm 2.0 & Forms 4.0 ???

In article <40bbhh$i3r_at_fountain.mindlink.net>, dscherger_at_sierrasys.com says...
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>Hi there, we are having problems defining a Terminal Definition for ORACLE Forms. We are
>using ORACLE Forms 4.0 to generate screens in character mode on a Sun Sparcstation.
>Eventually these screens will be deployed on a large number of dumb terminals. We *have*
 to
>use ORACLE Forms 4.0 and we *have* to produce character-mode forms or come up with a
>concrete reason why not.
>
>Basically, Oraterm20 won't produce a resource file, it simply croaks saying "FRM-40918:
>Internal error -- Unable to initialize Toolkit."
We're in the same boat you are and having lots of trouble with Terminal 2, Forms 4. Two things to try:

1. Make sure you exit Oracle Terminal before you try to use the .res file. If you're still in Oracle Terminal when you fire up Forms, you'll get the error every time.
2. When you specify the terminal in term=, specify the device as well. We use a modified copy of fmrcxsun.res called fmrcplain.res. We run Forms using:

f40run form / term=plain:xsun

Sine xsun is specified as the default device, (In fact, it's the only device in fmrcplain.res) we should be able to get away with just term=plain, but the Internal error rears its ugly head every time. Received on Sun Aug 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST