global variables info. needed

[DoobyDuck]

Hiya people!

I'm new to the Oracle Developer Enviroment and i'm trying to pass values between forms quite simply with global variables. All the values i'm passing are of number datatype, so i've been initialising the global variables with this syntax in a when-button-pressed trigger:

:global.Director_ID := to_charFILM.Director_ID);

and in a pre-query trigger using this syntax in the calling form to populate the form:

IRECTOR.Director_ID := to_number global.Director_ID);

Between two direct forms this works okay, but i'm having problems trying to read in a passed value to a form 3 forms later in the sequence. Any ideas people? Any info. on global variables with Developer would be much appreciated as well.

 

[sem]

All global variables are really global: there is 1 instance of named variable across any number of forms within Forms session. What error have you got?