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Creating a Control Item

To create a control item:

  1. In the Object Navigator, click the plus icon icon to add a node beside the desired Data Blocks node.  
    Oracle Forms expands the Data Blocks node and displays its subnodes.
  2. Click the plus icon icon to add a node beside the Items node.
  3. Click Create in the toolbar.  A new item with a default name is inserted under the Items node.
  4. Double-click the object icon beside the newly created item to display the Property Palette.
  5. Under the Database node, set the Database Item property to No.
    Note:When you create an item in a data block, Oracle Forms assumes the item is a data item, and sets the Database Item property to Yes. Data items are automatically included in any SELECT, UPDATE, and INSERT statements issued to the database. If the item being created is a control item in a data block, you must explicitly set its Database Item property to No.
  6. Set the Type property to specify the type of item you want.
    The default item type is text item. You can change the default by setting the Type property to the item type desired (check box, radio group, List item, and so on).
  7. Under the Physical node, set the Canvas property to the name of the desired canvas.
    Note: To display an item at runtime, you must assign each interface item in a form to a canvas.

Converting an item to a different type

About creating items

Setting Layout Editor block context

About assigning items to canvases