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What is a Layout Editor?
The Layout Editor is a graphical design facility for creating and arranging items and boilerplate text and graphics objects in your application's interface.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
The Layout Editor is a graphical design facility for creating and arranging interface items and graphic objects in a form. In the Layout Editor, you work on a single canvas. Canvases are displayed in ...
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List the Types of Items?
Text item. Chart item. Check box. Display item. Image item. List item. Radio Group. User Area item.
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What is a Check Box?
A Check Box is a two state control that indicates whether a certain condition or value is on or off, true or false. The display state of a check box is always either "checked" or "unchecked".
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Check boxes have two states, checked and unchecked. Very often they are used when the value must be either Yes/No, On/Off,Accept/Decline, etc.
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What are the triggers associated with a check box?
Only When-checkbox-activated Trigger associated with a Check box.
ashly
- Apr 18th, 2006
when_checkbox_changed
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What is a list item?
It is a list of text elements.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
List items are exactly what their name implies—a short list of values that the user can choose from. List items can serve as either database or non-database items.They present the user with a nu...
Sailaja Pasupuleti
- Dec 4th, 2005
To understand list item, take MS-Word application. If user wants to change the text Font then user can choose/select a required Font from the available list (called list...
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What is a display item?
Display items are similar to text items but store only fetched or assigned values. Operators cannot navigate to a display item or edit the value it contains.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Display items and text items are fairly similar and share many of the same properties. The biggest difference between the two is that a user can navigate to a text item and change its value. This is not possible with a display item. As its name implies, it merely displays information.
Sailaja Pasupuleti
- Dec 4th, 2005
Display items are non-input items. User cannot navigate into such type of item either with keyboard or mouse. For derived values user can use display item.
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What are the display styles of list items?
Poplist, No text Item displayed in the list item. Tlist, No element in the list is highlighted.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
There are three types of list items: poplists, Tlists, and combo boxes. Poplists, which are the default type. They restrict the user from selecting only from the list elements that are displayed. A co...
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What is a radio Group?
Radio groups display a fixed no of options that are mutually Exclusive .User can select one out of n number of options.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Radio groups are logical containers of radio buttons. Radio buttons are the small circles that appear on the screen which the user can click to select values. Radio group selections are mutually exclusive. That is, selection of one radio button deselects the previously selected button.
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How many maximum number of radio buttons can you assign to a radio group?
Unlimited no of radio buttons can be assigned to a radio group
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
A good rule of thumb is to have no more than six radio buttons in a radio group. If there are going to be more than six, you might want to consider using a list item, which provides similar functional...
sri ganesh
- May 29th, 2006
hai, this answer is : Depending on Application. &nb...
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What is a visual attribute?
Visual Attributes are the font, color and pattern characteristics of objects that operators see and intract with in our application.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
The visual attribute object contains all of the properties that determine font and color. These properties are useful in that they let you create and apply look and feel standards to multiple objects ...
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What are the types of visual attribute settings?
Custom Visual attributes Default visual attributes Named Visual attributes. Window
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
There are three values for the Visual Attribute Type property:1) Common, which for text and display items applies to the item itself and its prompt. Common visual attributes can also be used for other...
Shyamal Kumar
- Mar 18th, 2006
Visual attribute type are1.)Common2.)Prompt3.)Title
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Can a root window be made modal?
No.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Because Document windows are usually modeless (Modal property set to No) and dialog windows are usually modal (Modal property set to Yes).
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How to create exe file of oracle9i application?
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
When you work in the Form Builder, you are creating binary files, and when you run an application, you are executing executable files. Forms stores its binary files with an .fmb extension and its exec...
bahubcd
- Jan 28th, 2008
There won,t be any .exe file methodology in Oracle 9i as far as i know. The OC4J instance should be turned on and the .fmx files should be present on the server and then you can access the forms by using the ip or the url set by you in forms run time configuration.
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What is a window?
A window, by itself , can be thought of as an empty frame. The frame provides a way to interact with the window, including the ability to scroll, move, and resize the window. The content of the window i.e. what is displayed inside the frame is determined by the canvas View or canvas-views displayed...
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
For a canvas and its items to be visible, it must be assigned to a window. By the same token, for a window to be visible, it must contain at least one canvas. Therefore, canvases and windows rely on e...
kusuma
- Feb 5th, 2007
A window is going to consider if it is having menimise button,maximise button,close button
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Explain types of Block in forms4.0?
Base table Blocks. Control Blocks. 1. A base table block is one that is associated with a specific database table or view. 2. A control block is a block...
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Base-table blocks, as their name implies, are based on a database table or view and must contain at least one item that is based on a column in that database table or view. If you create a block based...
manikandan
- Dec 24th, 2006
1)Datablocks that is directly related to base tables thru stored proc or views and 2,control blocks not associated with base tables
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What do you mean by a block in forms4.0?
Block is a single mechanism for grouping related items into a functional unit for storing, displaying and manipulating records.
g_sidhu
- Feb 13th, 2008
Canvases serve as physical containers of items. Blocks, on the other hand, serve as logical containers of items. There are two types of blocks: basetable blocks and non-base-table blocks. Sometimes, y...
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List the built-in routine for controlling window during run-time?
Find_window, get_window_property, hide_window, move_window, resize_window, set_window_property, show_View
g_sidhu
- Feb 14th, 2008
Find_window,get_window_property,hide_window,move_window,resize_window,set_window_property,show_Window
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What is a canvas-view?
A canvas-view is the background object on which you layout the interface items (text-items, check boxes, radio groups, and so on.) and boilerplate objects that operators see and interact with as they run your form. At run-time, operators can see only those items that have been assigned to a specific canvas. ...
g_sidhu
- Feb 14th, 2008
CANVAS VIEWPORTS (VIEWS)The terms “canvas view” and “viewport” are synonymous. The viewport refers to the area of the canvas that is visible to the user. What this means is tha...
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What is an Alert?
An alert is a modal window that displays a message notifies the operator of some application condition
g_sidhu
- Feb 14th, 2008
Alerts are windows that contain messages and buttons. They provide a convenient way to send a message to “alert” the user that something has caused an error, something they have done will have certain consequences, or that something has happened that they should simply know about.
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What are the display styles of an alert?
Stop, Caution, note
g_sidhu
- Feb 14th, 2008
The three alert styles, Stop, Caution, and Note, let you communicate the urgency of an alert’s message to the user. Stop alerts should be used for the most urgent messages. Caution alerts can be...
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