Our company uses Oracle Forms and reports

[DougP]

Not sure which version. I'm not sure if this is the right forum.
Anyway It seems as though the program they created for us is very clumsy. We have to press a lot of keys to move around. Is this normal or the version?
Can it be more Mouse driven? I am VB guy and know how good and easy a program can be using drop downs and right clicking. RThis program has none of that. its character based not GUI. Right now I'm not in MIS at this company but I hope to be, everyone starts out as a low level.

Anyway is that why poeple use VB or C++ to create a front end for Oracle?

TIA





DougP, MCP, A+

 

[sem]

I think you have a kind of "portable" application developed for character based environment and just recompiled for Windows. Actually Forms supports most of Windows GUI features.

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru

 

[DougP]

Well it does say Oracle forms and reports runtime when it first loads. Is this what you are still refering too.
The reason I ask is I want to develope a better front end.

DougP, MCP, A+

 

[sem]

I'm sorry, but I can not understan your last message. I wrote nothing about runtime. I meant that the same form (source) may be executed in 3 environments: character based (Unix, mainframe), GUI ([X]Windows), Web (Java enabled browser). I supposed that your form has been originally developed for the first kind of deployment and recompiled for Windows without any changes to keep its "portability".

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru