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- From: tcox@netcom.com (Thomas Cox)
- Subject: Re: Customization of SQL*Forms.
- Message-ID: <!-cn0-c.tcox@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 04:08:31 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <26AUG199216110680@watson.bms.com>
- Keywords: SQL*Forms, Oracle CASE
- Lines: 45
-
- First, an obligatory disclaimer: I get my salary from Oracle
- (so I'm not impartial) but I'm no spokesman (so my words may
- not mean anything). With that in mind...
-
- sinha@watson.bms.com (Anil Sinha) writes:
- > Many times there is a need to customize SQL*Forms forms generated by
- >the Oracle CASE tools.
-
- This is normal -- I get maybe 80% of my form logic from CASE,
- and do the rest by hand. I gather that that's normal.
-
- >Many sites have written awk scripts ( in unix o/s) or
- >other utilities to modify the ".inp" file. These utilities help to automate
- >the customization procedure.
-
- Ahah! The reason you're doing that is because... you modify
- your form (as above), and then for some reason you change some
- aspect of your CASE logical model and thus need to re-gen the
- form. And in CASE Generator v1 (for Forms) the re-gen stomps
- all over your customization work. Ouch.
-
- But using 'awk' should be unneccessary. Because... CASE
- Generator v2 for Forms no longer stomps on your customization
- work. It lets you re-generate nondestructively.
-
- >Now the dreaded word going around is that Oracle
- >may get rid of .inp files for SQL*Forms 4.0. (????)
-
- I have a hard time believing that!
-
- I *have* heard that "fields" are going away, but .inp files?
- Can anybody confirm this .inp file rumor?
-
- (Yeah, "fields" are being replaced with "items", I think, as
- in "radio button item", "checkbox item", etc. Something like
- that.)
-
- >Anil Sinha
- >internet:sinha@watson.bms.com
-
- Cheers.
- -- Tom
- --
- Tom Cox DoD #1776 '91 CB 750 Nighthawk tcox@netcom.netcom.com
- Yeah, I have a day job. They don't believe me any more than you do.
-