david wendelken apparently said,on my timestamp of 6/08/2004 1:50 AM: > It used to be easy in forms, (one could save the form in the database and > query the code), Good old times... I wrote a C program eons ago to manipulate the Financials API forms code and translate it to something that forms 3 could understand. Worked a treat. That was the last time I seriously played with the Forms source. > They made a C api available, but C isn't my favorite language to write in. and it isn't much fun to use a proprietary API either... > Haven't tried out 9i's xml-based file yet, but that should be simpler to manipulate. You must. It simply ROCKS! Would be lost in the current project without it. Unfortunately, it is not exactly bi-directional: you can't go forms->xml, then go xml->forms and end up with exactly the same screen layout. There are still some minor losses on the conversion. Mind you: this is 9i. I'm told in 10g it is "all fixed". Then again: I've been told that about every single release of Oracle since 5... ;) -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------