Modernizing Forms Talk

The interview, I wrote about two days ago, was made in cooperation with my presentation "How to modernize Oracle Forms". And here is the video (50 minutes in german):

The link to the slides, used in the presentation, is here. It's german too, but I hope, that chapters like "Installation Look and Feel" are so easy to understand, that nobody has language problems in most parts of the presentation.

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Gerd

DOAG interview

After my last conference-presentation I was interviewed by the DOAG. The interview is in german only and the topic is "Modernizing Forms".

Content of the interview + YouTube-Info:

Many say about the appearance of Oracle Forms, this is no longer appropriate. Gerd Volberg from Opitz Consulting has looked at the open-source environment and found frameworks with which the Forms world can be spiced up. In an interview with the Head of Development SIG Christian Schwitalla Volberg presents the "Forms Look and Feel Project" by the Oracle Ace Francois Degrelle and the framework "OraFormsFaces" of Wilfred van der Deijl that combines the Forms and ADF world.

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Gerd

Oracle Forms in the Cloud - the next big thing?

The whole world speaks about working in the cloud. Why not Oracle Forms?

Why not...

Why...

Because: Oracle did it already...

Link zum Webcast

Michael Ferrante and Roger Vidal are explaining in the Webcast, how you can run your application in the cloud with the Web Logic Server and what this means for the future of Oracle Forms.

Grant points to this webcast with the words: "Oracle Forms remains a key technology..."

Have fun listening to Michael and Roger
Gerd

Behavior of Tab Canvases

The behavior of tab canvases ist very interesting, when your form gets more and more tabpages. Let's say, you have only three pages in your tab canvas. (Width Style Property = Fixed)

Forms automatically renders all three pages in the same size. That's what we expected.

In the next step we create a fourth tab:

If there is not enough space for all page-labels in the same size, then we see a first kind of resizing. All labels are readable. But the size of some pages is reduced.

If we create more tabpages:

At one point the label-text shrinks and some letters were exchanged by dots.

And in the last stage:

The last type of look and feel is, when we get a horizontal scrollbar. Think on this, when you use many tabpages in your form

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Gerd