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From: siping@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Siping Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: An Oracle question
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Date: 12 Mar 91 15:34:36 GMT
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Can I use SQL*Menu or SQL*Forms to build a user interface yet to
keep the process control in my program code? For example, I may
want to invoke a form to let the user type in a few employee
records, go back to my program and calculate the average salary
for them. This way, I only use the FORM as a convenient interface
builder and use it to get some user input for my program. The program
will decide when to use a certain form, if the changes
done in the form be permanent to the database, etc.

I know the programming interface Oracle offers is quite convenient
but you have to build your own user interface -- this is what I am
trying to see if some Oracle tools can help.

Thanks in advance.

Siping Liu.
siping@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu