Re: Is Oracle serious?

jtwelker_at_maui.net (John Twelker) wrote:

>Aloha,
 

>A couple of simple questions:
 

>1) Does Oracle 2000, out of the box, support automatic resizing and
>rescaling of forms? In other words, can an application developed
>under Oracle 2000 work on all user's hardware: laptops and desktops,
>regardless of monitor size or screen resolution?
 

>2) Can the application development tools for O2000 produce a product
>that will run under all three OS's: Win3.1, WFW3.11 and Win95?

If question 1 is - Can forms created using the version of Oracle Forms included in Developer/2000 automatically change resolutions based on the screen resolution set in the hardware of a specific system - NO. A form designed to be say 612 points wide, so it fits full width on a 1024X768 monitor will NOT magically become 478 points wide so it fits correctly on at 640X480 display. At least we couldn't find a way to automatically do this on our last project. We defaulted to the lowest common denominator and made all the forms VGA.

As for #2, the same form can be run on a variety of client operating systems - any one where forms Runtime is available. We've run the same form on Windows 3.1, WFWG 3.11 and Windows 95. AND on WNT 3.5. As far as I know the same form will work on most GUI-based systems versus character cell... Received on Wed May 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST