If the mouse is in an item, SYSTEM.MOUSE_ITEM represents the name of that item as a CHAR value.For example, if the mouse is in Item1 in Block2, the value for SYSTEM.MOUSE_ITEM is :BLOCK2.ITEM1.SYSTEM.MOUSE_ITEM is NULL if:·  the mouse is not in an it…

SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK Determining current block in Oracle Forms Using SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK system variable. The value that the SYSTEM.CURSOR_BLOCK system variable represents depends on the current navigation unit:If the current navigation unit is the bl…

SYSTEM.MESSAGE_LEVEL is used to control the messages that end users see when they use the Oracle Form's application. You can control to not to display simple warning messages or even error messages to display to users. The following  are message seve…

Set Icon_File property in When-Mouse-Enter trigger Suppose you are creating icon based menu system in Oracle Forms 6i and you want to change icon when mouse over on any push button. You can accomplish this task by writing form level trigger when-mous…

Change the font size and weight of text items and push buttons on mouse hover in Oracle Forms.   An example is given below to highlight the text in text items and highlight the label of a push button item at run time whenever mouse enters or leave, b…

Suppose you want to scan a tabular grid block (loop through all records in detail block) from top to bottom in Oracle forms. You can do this task by using :system.last_record system variable to determine whether it is last record in a block and then…

Suppose you want to handle an error in oracle forms and want to display custom error message for that error, but also you want to customize more for a particular error. For example there are many fields in form with required property is set to TRUE f…

I wrote this trigger around 4 years ago to handle errors in an application based on Oracle Forms 6i. This trigger handles all errors with some custom messages for some specific errors and not only this after giving an appropriate message to the user…

The example given below for writing text file or CSV using Text_IO package from a tabular block in Oracle Forms.   Suppose there is a tabular grid data block "Job_History" in your forms and you want to write a CSV on click of a button by reading…

Play_sound is used to play audio files in Oracle Forms, Play_Sound plays the sound object in the specified sound item.PLAY_SOUND examplesThe following plsql block you can write in when-button-pressed trigger for a push button item, when button clicke…