Creating Forms
The following topics contain information on creating Forms applications:
About Assigning Items to Canvases
About Blocks on Forms
About Block Types
About Building Forms
About Creating Items
About Data and Control Items
About Form Design Goals
About Items
About Layout Editor Block Context
About Multi-Record Blocks
About Number of Items Displayed within a Block
About Portability
About Ref Cursors
About Scroll Bars
About the Default Navigation Sequence
About the Porting Process
About Table of Records
About Translation
Analyzing task flow
Avoiding Information Clutter
Block Data Sources
Changing the Canvas Assignment of an Item
Changing the Space Between Items in a Multi-Record Block
Choosing Summary Versus Detail
Connecting to a Database
Converting an Item to a Different Type
Creating a Block Scroll Bar
Creating a Control Block
Creating a Control Item
Creating a Data Block from a FROM Clause
Creating a Data Block from a Procedure that Uses a Ref Cursor
Creating a Data Block from a Procedure that Uses a Table of Records
Creating a Data Block from a Table
Creating a Data Block from a Transactional Trigger
Creating a Data Item
Creating a Multi-Record Block
Deleting a Block
Deleting a Block Scroll Bar
Deleting an Item
Designing for Portability
General Layout Rules
Guidelines for Choosing Block Data Sources
Performing a Requirements Analysis
Resource Issues for Microsoft Windows
Setting Layout Editor Block Context
Screen Characteristics
Scroll Bar Interaction at Runtime
Specifying the Default navigation sequence
Specifying the Number of Items Displayed within a Block
Understanding Information Visibility
Understanding the User's Perception of Information
Using the FROM Clause as a Block Data Source
Using Stored Procedures as Block Data Sources
Using Tables as Block Data Sources
Using Transactional Triggers as Block Data Sources