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About Text Item Data Types

Oracle Forms supports multiple data types. When possible, use the standard Oracle Forms data types. These data types are based on native ORACLE data types, and offer better performance and application portability.

Oracle Forms supports the following standard data types:

The Oracle Forms V3 data types are included only for backward compatibility. You can obtain the same formatting characteristics by using standard Oracle Forms data types (above) with a format mask and/or the Alignment property. The Oracle Forms V3 data types are:


Changing a text item's data type