PJC : A blinking text item

 Purpose

Here is a PJC for textfields that allows to have a blinking behaviour.

This behaviour could be easily applied to other kind of items, like Command buttons for instance.


The Java code

     BlinkTextField.java



The implementation class of the Text Item

     oracle.forms.fd.BlinkTextField


The methods you can call

• Set the blinking rate

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.BEAN', 1, 'SETBLINKRATE', 'milliseconds' ) ;

• Set the Foreground color

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.BEAN', 1, 'SETFGCOLOR', 'r,g,b' ) ;

• Set the Background color

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.BEAN', 1, 'SETBGCOLOR', 'r,g,b' ) ;

• Start blinking

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.BEAN', 1, 'START', '' ) ;

• Stop blinking

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.BEAN', 1, 'STOP', '' ) ;

The sample dialog

   . Download the blink.zip file
   . Unzip the files
   . copy the blink.jar file in the /forms/java directory
   . Edit your /forms/server/formsweb.cfg file to add the jar file
   . Open the BLINK.fmb module (Oracle Forms 9.0.2)
   . Compile all and run the module

Comments

[Mathew]

Hi,


Whether we can set the ttoptip text dynamically when we use the 


A multiline package in orcale forms.


regards


mathew