Re: Splash Screen for an Oracle Application

I only know of two ways to do this and niether are pretty!

1. You need to write your own on-logon trigger and create your own LOGON screen. This will bypass normal forms processing and will pop-up your first form almost instantly. Your splash screen would then call your on-logon trigger and pop-up your own LOGON screen. I believe there is a way to call Oracle's own LOGON screen, check the online forms documentation for ON-LOGON builtin and triggers. Your on-logon trigger would also call your next form.
2. Using Delphi (you can use C++, or VB), we created a very tiny application that the user clicks on to start the whole system, the application is responsible for two things a) startup and pop the splash screen for 4 seconds and at the same time and in the background start forms. When the splash screen times out, it shutsdown and passes control to forms. If you do a little more work you can also have your application ask for the username/password and then pass them as parameters to forms and forms will start at the first screen. Of course this method is platform specific.

If someone else has found a better way, let me know.

I really wish Oracle had real dialog boxes as well.

Enzo Maini
Sr. SW Engineer/Sr. Oracle DBA
Lateral Thinking Software Systems, LLC
enmaini_at_pcnet.com

Vincent Soosai <ULQX55A_at_prodigy.com> wrote in article <57a0h7$29lk_at_usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>...
> Hi Readers:
>
> I need to design a splash screen for my Forms 4.5 application and would
> like a 'professional' look. At the moment I have the 'splash' on another
 

> form an it displays for 4 seconds before calling the first form. The
> drawback of this is it takes some time for the 'spash' form to get loaded
 

> and the user sees a blank runform screen for about 4-6 seconds. I want
> the spash to get loaded almost instantly and I would welcome any input.
>
> ulqx55a_at_prodigy.com
>
>
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