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Oracle Forms 10g – Forms Look and Feel project - Agenda

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Oracle Forms 10g – Forms Look and Feel project

Day, Date, 2004

time p.m. ET

Teleconference Access:

North America: xxxx

International: xxxx

Password: Advisor

Upcoming live Forms webcasts (Note 423317.1):

(if possible each first Wednesday of a Month at 9:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT)

December 3, 2008: Oracle Forms 10g – Forms Look and Feel project

February 11, 2009: Troubleshooting the generic FRM-9210x errors

Wednesday,December 3rd, 2008

Teleconference Access:

International Dial In :

+44 (0) 1452 555 566

US / Canada Dial-in:    

( 877 ) 500 - 9108

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9:00 am GMT

Conf ID - 63410683

17:00 pm GMT

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Oracle Forms 10g – Forms Look and Feel project

Francois DegrelleConsultantNetsource Network Solutions

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Change your Oracle Forms applications’ Look and FeelChange your Oracle Forms applications’ Look and Feel

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IntroductionIntroduction

What is it ?What is it ?

How it works ?How it works ?

How to implement in a new module?How to implement in a new module?

How to update existing modules ?How to update existing modules ?

How to maintain the CSS file ?How to maintain the CSS file ?

Where to download the project ?Where to download the project ?

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IntroductionIntroduction

Change easily the look of the Forms application.

Have a more « HTML » look.

Externalize the graphical information.

Add some missing functions.

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Change easily the look of the Forms applicationChange easily the look of the Forms application

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Draw gradient backgrounds, images, shapes and strings on the canvas

Change the look of the GUIs’ elements

Give table-blocks an  « HTML » style

Change the look of the Forms’ containers

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Externalize the graphical informationExternalize the graphical information

Most of the graphical information is read from an external CSS file.

The painting is made at runtime by reading the required tags, then applying the changes through the Java Bean.

canvasEbay {

type:canvas

gradient-colors:r255g255b204,r255g255b255

gradient-vcycle:/2

gradient-hcycle:0

image1:/ebay.jpg,10,1,.8

image2:/ebay_line.jpg,30,74,.6,560,5

}

tableHeaderEbay {

type:header

font-family: Arial;

font-size:12

font-weight:bold

frame-color:r250g83b12

inside-color:r255g204b0

font-color:r0g0b204

shade-color:r255g255b204

frame-width:2

frame-rounded-border: 10

transparency:.8

text-align:left

text-align-offset:5

}

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Have a more « HTML » look on table-blocksHave a more « HTML » look on table-blocks

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Add a few new functionsAdd a few new functions

• Handle menus at runtime (add, enable, disable, show, hide, remove options).

• Handle frames at runtime (add, move, modify, hide).

• Play pre-loaded sounds.

• Receive external asynchronous messages.

• Draw texts anywhere on the screen.

• Display input dialog boxes.

• JColorChooser.

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What is it ?What is it ?

a PL/SQL library

That contains the functions and the procedures to read the tags from the CSS file and paint every object.

a JAR file

That contains the Java Bean and the PJCs.

a CSS file

That contains the tags’ sections.

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The PL/SQL library (laf.pll)The PL/SQL library (laf.pll)

It contains the functions and the procedures needed to open the CSS file, read the tags from it, then perfom the drawing job through the associated Java Bean’s methods.

Open and read the CSS file.

PKG_LOOK_AND_FEEL.Open_Css()

Draw objects on the canvas.

PKG_LOOK_AND_FEEL.Paint_Canvas()

Decorate the given table-block.

PKG_LOOK_AND_FEEL.Paint_Block()

Set global properties for every GUIs widgets.

PKG_LOOK_AND_FEEL.Set_GUI_Properties()

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The JAR file (laf.jar)The JAR file (laf.jar)

It contains a Java Bean to perform all the graphical operations,and some PJCs to overload the common Forms widgets.

- The Java Bean allows to manage the following aspects:

Drawing shapes on the current canvas (images, lines, rectangles and strings). Loading and playing sounds. Dynamically handling menus - add, remove, enable, disable, show and hide menu

options at runtime. Dynamically handling frames – add, remove, modify, move, show and hide frames at

runtime. Display single or multi-line input dialog box. Transform the Forms into a Socket Server, able to receive external asynchronous

messages. Display texts anywhere on the canvas during a given time. Change fonts and colors for menu bar, window caption, status bar and tabs. Pick a color from a JColorChooser. Turn simple images into sensitive areas you can click on.

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- The PJCs tend to give a more « Windows XP » look with the use of gradients.

They also extend the standard functions of the common Forms items:

Buttons with mixed text and image, and mouse-on, mouse-over events.

Text items that allow sending events to the Forms (last key typed with key char, key code and key modifier) via the Tom Cleymans dispatching feature.

Blinking text items.

Hyperlink sort of text items.

Extended lists (multiple selection – sorted lists).

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The CSS fileThe CSS file

It contains the different tags, grouped in five different section’s types:

type:canvas That contains tags to decorate a canvas

type:title That contains tags to draw a table-block title area

type:header That contains tags to draw a table-block header area

type:body That contains tags to draw a table-block body area

type:gui That contains tags to manage the common GUIs elements

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Title section’s tagsTitle section’s tags

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Header section’s tagsHeader section’s tags Body section’s tagsBody section’s tags

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How it works?How it works?

The Forms side Read the CSS file, then decorate the elements by calling the Java methods - Set_Custom_Property().

The Java side Use the Java methods to paint the Forms elements. setProperty() and getProperty()

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• The Forms sideThe Forms side

When-Timer-ExpiredWhen-Timer-Expired trigger trigger

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• The Java sideThe Java side

• When-Timer-ExpiredWhen-Timer-Expired trigger trigger

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Draw images

Draw shapes

Colorize widgets

Re-draw

buttons Paint gradients

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• L&F Demo

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How to implement the L&F in a new module?How to implement the L&F in a new module?

a Forms Object Library (laf.olb)

That contains all the required objects to implement the L&F features.

a Forms template (LAF_TEMPLATE.fmb)

To create a « fully equiped » new module from scratch.

attach the laf.pll library, compile and run !

Forms template demonstration

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How to implement the L&F in existing modules?How to implement the L&F in existing modules?

The JDAPI_LAF tool

Written in Java to use the Oracle Forms JDAPI feature.

It Uses a XML configuration file to upgrade existing modules in a massive way.

It runs directly from the command line.

JDAPI_LAF demonstration

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How to maintain the CSS file?How to maintain the CSS file?

The css_updater.fmb Forms’ sample dialog

Updates any tag in any section of any CSS file.

Displays immediately any change done in any property.

css_updater.fmb demonstration

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Some linksSome links

Oracle Forms Look and Feel project home page http://sheikyerbouti.developpez.com/forms-pjc-bean/LAF/doc/Oracle_Forms_Look_and_Feel_project.htm

Forms Java Beans and PJCs’ library http://forms.pjc.bean.over-blog.com/

Francois Degrelle’s blog http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/

White papers on OTN Forms section

• Dynamic Color Customization• Generic LOVs

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/techlisting10g.html

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Where to find additional information

• Log in to Metalink • Click on Knowledge tab • Under Tools and Training on the left side of screen click on

Training (Web Seminars)• Click on Advisor Webcast Program

• Forms Advisor webcast scheduling:• Metalink Note 423317.1

• Please submit your comments:• Karin.Haeussler@oracle.com

• Please suggest webcast topics:• Karin.Haeussler@oracle.com

• Forms Advisor webcasts scheduling:• Metalink Note 423317.1

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• There will be no Q&A Session at the end

• Instead, please send an email to f.degrelle@free.fr

• During the Q&A session your question will be read and an answer will follow.

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THANK YOUDay, Date, 2004

time p.m. ET

Teleconference Access:

North America: xxxx

International: xxxx

Password: Advisor

Forms Advisor Webcast Feedback:

Karin.Haeussler@oracle.com

Upcoming live Forms webcasts (Note 423317.1):

(if possible each first Wednesday of a Month at 9:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT)

December 3, 2008: Oracle Forms 10g – Forms Look and Feel project with Francois Degrelle (see his white paper)

February 11, 2009: Troubleshooting the generic FRM-9210x errors

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