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Working with the Raise on Entry Canvas Property

The canvas property Raise on Entry determines how stacking order is affected by navigation (by the end user or the application) to an item on the canvas. If you set Raise on Entry to:

Stacked Canvases

Setting the Raise on Entry property for a stacked canvas can be tricky. To get it right, you may have to consider window interaction, default navigation, stacking order, and programmatic manipulation of windows and canvases.

A stacked canvas with Raise on Entry property set to No can be displayed only through navigation or programmatic control.

Recall that when an end user (or your application) navigates to an item on the stacked canvas, Oracle Forms displays the canvas in its assigned window. But a window also can be shown programmatically, or in response to navigation to an item on the window's content canvas. In these situations, you must set Raise on Entry to Yes so Oracle Forms will display the stacked canvas when the window is first displayed.

Note that a stacked canvas with its Raise on Entry property set to Yes might still be hidden in the following situations:


HIDE_VIEW Built-in

SET_VIEW_PROPERTY Built-in

SHOW_VIEW Built-in