Tag Archive | "Javascript"

Integrating ExtJS Javascript Library into Oracle APEX

Sunday, February 3, 2008

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Do you want to know how you can integrate the ExtJS Javascript Library into Oracle Application Express (APEX)? Mark Lancaster has set up an ExtJS example application showing the integration and how such an Oracle APEX application could look like. Check it out!

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Integrating a Slider Control into Oracle APEX

Friday, January 25, 2008

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Oracle Application Express (APEX) doesn’t come with a built-in Slider Control widget, but it’s quite easy to integrate one of the existing Javascript libraries like the Tigra Slider Control. See there example page 1 and page 2 for how the sliders can look like. But you can also use your own images for the slider. What [...]

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Add Double Click to Oracle APEX Shuttle Widget

Saturday, January 12, 2008

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Do you want to improve the usability of the Oracle APEX Shuttle Widget a little bit? Let’s enhance it by adding support for double click. It will allow users to double click on an entry in one of the two lists of the shuttle, to move the selected entry to the other list as they would [...]

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Add colors or images to your select list

Sunday, August 19, 2007

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Some time ago I was asked if it’s possible to set the background color of the entries of a select list. Sure why not! I thought I had already answered the question before, so I searched on the OTN forum but didn’t find my posting. No problem, shouldn’t be too hard to find the solution again.

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Slightly different behavior of $x in Oracle APEX 3.0

Sunday, March 25, 2007

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Just noticed a slightly different behavior of $x in Oracle APEX 3.0. Probably many of you just use it to pass the id-string of an element (eg. $x(”P4_TEST”)) to this function to get the object of this field/div/… id, but you can also call it with an object and in that case the function will just [...]

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JavaScript compressor/packer

Monday, February 5, 2007

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Are you doing JavaScript development and your JavaScript code has grown and grown? Have you ever looked at the available JavaScript compressors/packers?

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Accessing Tabular Form cell with JavaScript

Thursday, January 18, 2007

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Today there was a thread on the OTN forum about how to access a Tabular Form cell with JavaScript and I thought it might be of general interest. Scenario You have a Tabular Form with 3 columns (Amount, Tax, Total) and want to populate the Total column with the sum of Amount and Tax as soon as [...]

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Firebug – must have for JavaScript/Web developers

Sunday, January 14, 2007

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If you are a JavaScript developer or create your web-pages with CSS, then the Firefox add-on

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One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Thursday, January 11, 2007

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Just kidding I was just looking for an eye catcher… Maybe you have already seen my announcement that I have released v0.17 of the ApexLib Framework, which contains a lot new features. The previous features in the Framework mostly concentrated on improvements of Oracle APEX on the server, so that’s easier to access Tabular Forms [...]

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Firefox add-ons I use for APEX development

Sunday, December 10, 2006

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If you are using Firefox for your APEX development you may want to check out my list of add-ons I’m currently using for the web development. If you have any useful add-ons you are using, drop me a note!

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