Creating a Display Item
To create a display item:
- In the Object Navigator, click the plus icon
beside the desired block node.
Oracle Forms expands the block node and displays its subnodes.
- Click the Items node.
- Click the Create button
in the toolbar.
A new item with a default name is inserted under the Items
node.
- Double-click the object icon next to the newly created item to display the
Property Palette.
- Under the General node, set the Item Type property
to Display Item.
- 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 it to a canvas.
You can have an item which acts like a disabled
item, but is not greyed out by using the INSERT_ALLOWED and UPDATE_ALLOWED attributes.
Items with these attributes set to OFF don't show as disabled items, but do
not allow the user to change the values in either new or queried records.
Related topics
About display items
Assigning a format mask to a display item