Editor in Oracle Developer 2000/d2k/forms

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Editor :- (Cnt+e)

1. this is used to show an editor user to enter information in a more comfortable way, used for fields like, address, comments, name etc
2. there are 3 type of editor
• default editor
• system defined editor
• user defined editor


DEFAULT EDITOR :- every text box is by default associated with a default editor

SYSTEM EDITOR :- in the property of text item we can use ‘system editor’ to show system editor at run time.
( who notepad/textpat/wordpad depending on what is editor that is associated with oracle in the file init.ora)

User defined editor :-

1. we can create our own editor and show it to user as per our requirement using a built in procedure i.e show_editor

Syntax

Show editor (‘name of editor’,message_in,x_pos,y-pos,message_out,Boolean_val,out parameter);

Out parameter will return true if user clicked ok on editor and false if user cancelled the
Editor.

Various ways to used editor at run time.

1. on the text itme.
2. edit menu :- edit on the text item.
3. Built in procedure:- ‘edit –texttem’ in the triggers
4. show_editor

Steps for create an editor.
1. create an editor
2. Make changes in the property of editor as per requirement.
3. Show editor using show editor/others ways at run time.





Code for editor button (when-button-pressed) of job field of emp block :-

Declare
B Boolean;
V_job varchar2(4000);
Begin
Show_editor
(‘ed_job’,:emp.job,100,100,v_job,b);
If b then
If length(v_job)>9 then
Message(‘you can enter 9 letter only’);
Message(‘’);
Raise form_trigger_failure;
Else
:emp.job := v_job;
End if;
Else
Message(‘cancelled’);
Message(‘’);
End if ;
End;