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- From: jaakola@cc.helsinki.fi
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Customization of SQL*Forms.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.092154.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 07:21:54 GMT
- References: <26AUG199216110680@watson.bms.com> <!-cn0-c.tcox@netcom.com>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 35
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- In article <!-cn0-c.tcox@netcom.com>, tcox@netcom.com (Thomas Cox) writes:
- > sinha@watson.bms.com (Anil Sinha) writes:
- >>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.
-
- What does this 'nondestructively' mean? How generator v2 checks which
- parts have been hand-modified?
-
- What if the CASE logical model and hand-modifications contradict? Which
- change takes presedence? Can I specify that I want to keep this
- piece of hand-modification and replace this hand-modification with the
- changes implied by the new CASE model?
-
- Is the technique foolproof?
-
- No, I don't have a manual at hand. Neither do I wish to hear any
- marketing vaporware - I would like to hear a precise technical answer,
- if possible.
-
- > 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.
- --
- Juhani Jaakola
- jaakola@cc.helsinki.fi
-