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From: daved@usperb.Dayton.NCR.COM (Dave Dresselhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle Forms & Wyse50/Vt100
Keywords: ORACLE, Forms
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Date: 21 Feb 90 12:27:18 GMT
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In article <361@cmsfl> nigel@cmsfl@labtam.oz (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>We are investigating Oracle Forms for use in an environment with
>NCR Towers, wyse50s and vt100s.
>As far as I can see the way Forms is set up you can only generate
>a form for one type of screen.
>This is going to be a problem for us if we intend using more than
>one type.
>Someone said the next release of Forms would handle this.
>Anyone know any more about this ?
>
For the most part, the thing that prevents you from developing a form
on one type of terminal, and running it on another is the use of a
terminal's line drawing capabilities (ie: SQL*Forms Draw Box function).
For some unknown reason, the code that Forms generates (*.frm) is
hardware specific when it comes to sending line drawing characters to
the crt. My advice is to not use the Draw Box function, but to type in
your own boxes and lines using + - | as normal text.
We've used NCR 7930s, VT100s and ANSI emulators all on the same forms
with no trouble at all, provided that the graphics characters have not
been used.
I haven't heard of a solution to this problem in a future release of
Forms, but it would certainly be welcome and long overdue!

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