Customizing Objects in a Form
These topics contain information about customizing objects in your Forms applications:
Color Palettes
About Color Palettes
Converting and Compiling
About the PL/SQL V1 Conversion Utility
Converting PL/SQL Libraries Attached to a Display
Converting PL/SQL Libraries Attached to a Form
Converting PL/SQL Libraries Attached to a Report
Converting Displays in Batch Mode
Converting Forms in Batch Mode
Converting Forms from the Command Line
Converting Forms Using the GUI Version of the Forms Compiler
Converting Reports in Batch Mode
Converting Reports from the Command Line
Converting Reports Using the GUI Version of the Report Compiler
Running the PL/SQL V1 Conversion Utility in Batch Mode
Specifying Oracle Forms Compiler Parameters
What Can't the PL/SQL V1 Conversion Utility Convert?
What Does the PL/SQL V1 Conversion Utility Convert?
Frames
About Arranging Items within Frames
About Frames
Adding an Item to a Frame
Aligning All Items within a Frame
Aligning a Single Item within a Frame
Aligning Prompts within a Frame
Arranging Items within a Frame
Creating a Form-Style Arrangement within a Frame
Creating a Frame
Creating a Tabular Arrangement within a Frame
Defining the Distance between the Frame and Its Items
Defining the Distance between the Items within a Frame
Deleting a Frame
Horizontal and Vertical Margins
Horizontal and Vertical Object Offset
Moving a Frame
Moving an Item within a Frame
Removing an Item from a Frame
Resizing a Frame
Resizing an Item within a Frame
Start Prompt and Top Prompt Alignment
Updating a Frame's Layout
Layout Editor
About Formatting Items in the Layout Editor
Constraining a Move
Moving a Selection Incrementally
Using the Layout Wizard to Arrange Items
General Objects
About Grouping Objects
About Overlapping Objects
Adding an Object to the Current Selection
Aligning an Object
Centering an Object
Deselecting an Object
Grouping Objects
Making an Object the Same Size
Moving an Object
Ordering Overlapping Objects
Re-Grouping Objects
Resizing an Object
Selecting All Objects
Selecting an Object
Setting an Object's Color Attributes
Setting an Object's Font Attribute
Selecting Objects in a Region
Setting an Object's Pattern Attributes
Prompts
About Prompts
Aligning a Prompt with Its Item
Associating a Prompt with an Item
Creating a Prompt
Defining Prompt Offset within a Frame
Defining a Prompt's Alignment Offset
Defining a Prompt's Attachment Edge
Defining a Prompt's Display Style
Defining the Distance between a Prompt and Its Item
Justifying a Prompt
Prompt Properties
Start Prompt and Top Prompt Offset
Trees
About Hierarchical Trees
Adding Data to a Hierarchical Tree
Adding Nodes to a Hierarchical Tree
Creating a Hierarchical Tree
Format of Data used to populate a hierarchical tree
Manipulating a Hierarchical Tree at Runtim
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Populating a Hierarchical Tree
Setting Hierarchical Tree Item Properties
Specifying an Initial Value for a Hierarchical Tree
PL/SQL
%ROWTYPE or %TYPE Required in Variable Declarations
CHAR Replacedby VARCHAR2
Default Expressions for OUT and IN OUT Disallowed
Length Constraints Removed
Length Function Returns NULL for Zero-Length Strings
Missing RETURN Statement in Function Causes Runtime Error
New Reserved Words in PL/SQL V2.3 or Later
Obsolete Built-ins replaced
Passing NULL to an Overloaded Subprogram Does Not Resolve Properly
RETURN Requires an Expression
Standard package Function no longer used
String Length Required for VARCHAR2
Unique Names Required within a Package