APEX Hacks | Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

Oracle APEX Builder Plugin available for Internet Explorer

Sunday, May 20, 2007

The Oracle APEX Builder Plugin is now also available for Internet Explorer! For a long time I was looking for a Greasemonkey like add-on for Internet Explorer. I found several of them, like Greasemonkey for IE, Trixie or Turnabout. But the drawback of all of them is that they are not maintained anymore. In most cases [...]

Seamless integration of ApexLib into the APEX Builder IDE

Sunday, March 11, 2007

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One of the “drawbacks” of using the ApexLib Framework is, that you have to remember all the “ApexLib Hints” which you have to use to configure the runtime behavior of the framework. Ok, after some time you are getting used to them, but still, wouldn’t it be much more comfortable to set this properties as you [...]

Hacking the APEX Builder – Part 3

Monday, February 19, 2007

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On Wednesday I released the first version of the APEX Builder Plugin, on Thursday I added a small enhancement, but on Friday I had an idea how to really increase the productivity of the Oracle APEX IDE. People who know me, know that I’m restless and just think about that as long as I haven’t implemented [...]

Hacking the APEX Builder – Part 2

Friday, February 16, 2007

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Just updated the APEX Builder Plugin for Greasemonkey to version 1.1 Are you also setting “Export Comments” to YES each time when you export your Oracle APEX application, because you don’t want to loose your developer comments in the case you have to restore from a previous export. How often have you forgotten and have been [...]

Hacking the APEX Builder – Part 1

Thursday, February 15, 2007

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Last week I blogged about a resizeable textarea which can be integrated into an APEX application. I thought it would be cool to have this resizeable textareas in the APEX Builder, too. How could that be done?

Hacking the APEX error page!

Friday, December 15, 2006

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Do you like the separate APEX error page which is called when APEX raises an error (eg in the MRU/MRD process for tabular forms)? If yes, you don’t have to read further, if your answer is NO you may should read the rest of this posting…

Hacking the APEX Debugger

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

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You like the build-in APEX Debugger which you can be activated through the Developers Toolbar? All links which APEX is generating when rendering the page contain the debug flag too. But when you enter something into a form and press the submit button or any other button, the Debug mode is disabled and you don’t see [...]

Is my application running in Developer Mode?

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

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On the OTN forum someone was

Drop in replacement for V and NV function

Friday, December 1, 2006

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If you have read my previous posting about Caution when using PL/SQL functions in SQL statements and a related thread on the OTN forum, you know that using the V or NV function in your SQL-where clause can have a performance impact on your query. I have created wrapper functions for V and NV which use [...]

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