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The curious case of the left-handed mouse in webforms

In OAS (10.1.2.0.2), webforms, when using a left-handed mouse to expand a menu, the tree node is not expanding. No error is given. For example, in 'Material Workbench' select the '+' to expand 'Organizations' in the menu. Left and right button does not do anything. Also, the left handed users are having difficulties in moving

By |2022-06-07T20:18:47+02:00July 6th, 2009|App. Server|0 Comments

Creating PDF’s with PL/SQL and itext

There are several ways to create PDF's, on the client (e.g. PDFCreator) or on the middletier. But to create PDF's merely with packages in the database, that's another story. Even Apex uses some Java on the middletier. The product PLPDF on the other hand is a well known utility which provides this functionality (using open-source 'itext'), but.. you have to pay for this. So why not do it ourselves with itext, open-source (answer: a lot of work and knowledge of Java...).

By |2022-06-07T20:19:12+02:00June 20th, 2009|Database|2 Comments

Signing jar-files

A project is using Sferyx in Webforms, and the file HTMLEditorLight.jar is used. But 'copy and paste' from outside the form to the editor is not working. Cause: the jar-file need to be signed. To sign a jar-file the tools 'keytool' and 'jarsigner' is needed. But... why not use a script from e.g. webutil: sign_webutil.sh? With a few adjustments it's a quite common, usable script.

By |2022-06-07T20:20:41+02:00April 29th, 2009|App. Server|0 Comments

Internet Explorer crashes with Oracle forms / Jinitiator

Problem: when running form modules using Internet Explorer and JInitiator 1.3.1.x, the browser window opens and crashes immediately before the applet starts. When using Mozilla Firefox, there’s no problem at all. Several notes on Metalink about this:  602001.1, 430359.1, 550301.1 The issue does not occur when using Sun JRE version 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6.

By |2022-06-07T20:23:42+02:00April 3rd, 2009|App. Server|24 Comments

Sun JRE instead of Jinitiator with Forms and Webutil

Running Forms and Webutil with Sun Java 5.0.6 instead of Jinitiator. And you know what:  it’s faster and has more functionality I’ve been told… First you need the java-file. In this case: jre15006.exe. Initially I found it hard to find on the site of Sun – didn’t even know the name of the file I

By |2022-06-18T13:20:21+02:00January 26th, 2009|App. Server|0 Comments

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