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Current version: 1.6.1

Features

  • Change easily the Look and Feel of your Oracle Forms application

  • Have a more HTML look with your table-blocks

  • Externalize the graphical properties via a CSS file

  • Add brand new functions


Configuration and Implementation

Configuration

In order to use the LAF project in your application, you have to do a bit of configuration:

  • Download and unzip the LAF zip file.

  • Copy the corresponding JAR file to your <DEVSUITE_HOME>/forms/java directory.

  • Update your /forms/server/formsweb.cfg file.

    As it needs the Sun Java Plug-in instead of the Oracle JInitiator, you have to create a special section that uses the Sun Plug-in.

    You also need to add the corresponding JAR file to the archive tag (not the archive_jini).

    Modify the existing [jpi] section or create it as follow:

    [jpi]
    # -- Forms 10.1.2 --
    archive=frmall.jar,laf_1012.jar
    # -- Forms 10.1.2.3 --
    #archive=frmall.jar,laf_10123.jar
    # -- Forms 9i --
    #archive=f90all.jar,laf_902.jar
    baseHTMLjinitiator=basejpi.htm
    jpi_download_page=http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.6.0/download.jsp
    jpi_classid=clsid:CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0017-ABCDEFFEDCBA
    jpi_codebase=http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/autodl/jinstall-1_6_0-windows-i586.cab#Version=1,6,0,17
    jpi_mimetype=application/x-java-applet
    separateFrame=true

    Then tell Forms Builder to use this configuration section via the menu:

    Edit -> Preferences... -> Runtime : http://xxx:8889/forms/frmservlet?config=jpi


  • Copy the forms.css file somewhere on your disk (by default, it is searched in the C:/ root directory).

  • Load and execute in the database the two SQL script files located in the /script directory:

    - PKG_LAF.sql
    - PKG_DB_LAF_LOV.sql


  • Compile the laf.pll PL/SQL library, then copy the pll.plx and laf.olb files to one of the directories defined in the FORMS_PATH variable.


Implementation of the LAF in existing modules

In order to implement the required LAF objects in your existing Forms modules, a tool is shipped, that use the JDAPI to update the FMB source files.

     See the JDAPI_LAF tool


Implementation of the LAF in brand new modules

To create new modules from scratch that include the LAF features, use the Forms template shipped in the zip file (/fmb/LAF_TEMPLATE.fmb).

For more details about configuration, read the Look & Feel Developer Guide.

Oracle Forms Look and Feel Project created by Francois Degrelle