Glad to be reporting that I am almost done with the Oracle Forms rich text editor. Some issues with outputting the rich text item thru reports and deciding how to save the contents. For the time being, I checked query and insert modes and the set_custom_property and get_item_property are working fine without any loss.
I am [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 19 so far )A project that I started in September 2008 was motivated by the lack of rich text editors in Forms applications. Francois Degrelle has already provided an HTML editable bean that can provide adequate styling.
However, there are situations where features, comparable to those found on such editors as TinyMCE, are needed.
Based on this requirement, I [...]
Here is another dashboard styled bean that can be used in BI screens. While it can be used for this specific purpose, it can be used in other areas as well.
The screenshot above shows the bean with the value that is set from the Forms canvas. This can also be fetched from a table [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )As I was finalizing the technical note for another gauge bean, it hit me that I wasted quite some time designing the visual part of the bean. In Oracle Forms, you create the bean on the canvas, assign it a height and width and then set up the implementation class.
Now, in order to customize it, [...]
Increasingly, power users are requiring more and more info in a manageable form. This is the case with dashboards and financial screens.
There are already a number of javabeans that can be quickly deployed with Oracle Forms 10g and the PJC depot at http://forms.pjc.bean.over-blog.com/ lists a number of very useful beans. On OTN, you can also [...]
I don’t really know why but lately I found myself wanting to design dials, gauges and thermometers. May be it is because I spent a lot of time on http://dashboardspy.com or it seemed to me that Oracle Forms users are lacking some of the nice visualization components available on other platforms.
See this link [...]
Here is an update with the files for implementing a javabean that displays a static google map for a given location.
In a number of back-end applications, users as well as entities are registered with their address information. In some cases, it is desired to provide a visual representation of this address information.
A free service that [...]
Here is an output for a Javabean that shows the image from a Static Google Map.
The example shown here is for the google headquarters. The user inputs the address info in the Forms module and the Javabean takes care of fetching the data from Google Maps.
The process is done in two steps. First step [...]
When you have a directory with a complicated hierarchical structure (nested sub-floders), using webutil to browse the folder is inadequate. This is mainly due to the use of JFileChooser which is notoriously slow in this case.
Since most implementations use JInitiator, one way to circumvent this problem is to implement a bean that will make use [...]
Enterprise IT Tools and Thoughts, dealing mainly with Oracle Developer tools (Forms & Reports)
By Hafed Benteftifa
