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ApexLib release 1.03 available

14. February 2007

Did some bug fixing for the ApexLib Framework. This release also solves the problem of navigable Date Picker/Lov icons when using Firefox. The framework now removes the “a href” of the icon from the DOM tree and assign the action of the link as onclick event to the icon. So no navigation problem with any [...]

Setting a "Case Restriction" for Page Items/Tabular Form Columns

14. February 2007

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That’s the last posting about new features in the 1.02 release of the ApexLib Framework. Ever wanted to set a case restriction (uppercase/lowercase/capitalize) for a field like you can do it in Oracle*Forms with the “Case Restriction” property? Here you go!

Hide "Select All" checkbox of row selector

13. February 2007

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In the last release of the ApexLib Framework I have also added a sometimes useful API to hide the “Select All” checkbox of the row selector of an Tabular Form. This can be useful to prevent the user from selecting all records for delete.

Restrict input length of Tabular Form columns

12. February 2007

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One problem with Tabular Form Column is that they don’t have a “Maximum Width” property as Page Items do. APEX automatically generates a maxlength=2000 for all columns. What is the result? The user gets a when he enters a too long value. Not really nice, isn’t it? And now he has to start counting so [...]

Tabular Form record navigation with Up/Down key

9. February 2007

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I have added another small usability enhancement to the ApexLib Framework. When you call the API ApexLib_Browser.checkForUpDownKey; it will register the keys Up and Down to navigate to the previous/next record in a Tabular Form. This should work for manually build (with Apex_Item) and also for the default updateable Tabular Forms. It is by intention [...]

Non navigable Date Picker-/Lov/Image Button Icons

8. February 2007

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I still remember my “usability experience” when I first tried out Oracle APEX and created a form with a Date Picker and a Lov and run the page afterwards. I had to click tab twice to go from a Date Picker or Lov item to the next item, because the Icon next to the field [...]

Resizeable Textarea

7. February 2007

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Some time ago there was an interesting posting on the OTN forum about integrating resizeable textareas into APEX (especially into the Application Builder). I thought that is a nice and useful feature, so I adapted it a little bit and integrated it into the new release of the ApexLib Framework. Check it out on the [...]

ApexLib release 1.02 available

7. February 2007

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It’s already one week ago that I have released the last version, so I thought I bundle all the changes I have done so far and release a new version.

ApexLib release 1.01 available

2. February 2007

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Just have uploaded a new release.

I finally made it…

23. January 2007

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Today at 00:50 (when normal people are already sleeping) I finally made it to release version 1.0 of the Oracle APEX development framework, called ApexLib. Today I was the hole day at a customer and had no chance to blog about it.

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