Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Do you want to remap your keyboard keys with oracle apps?

Sorry for the not posting lately but I am busy with a project anyway my development team asked me to disable ctlr+s for saving they don’t want the end user to you use it to save, he must click the save button, they want to make sure that he want to save and its not just an habit.

So all what I have to do is the following:
-Make a backup copy of $ORACLE_HOME/forms60/admin/resource/US/fmrweb.res
-edit the fmrweb.res file.
-search for the ctrl+s line and I deleted/commented it.
-an example below on what else you can do
Before Change
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118 : 0 : "F7" : 69 : "Clear Block"
119 : 0 : "F8" : 74 : "Clear Form"
122 : 0 : "F11" : 76 : "Enter Query"
122 : 2 : "Ctrl+F11" : 77 : "Execute Query"

Modified
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118 : 0 : "F11" : 76 : "Clear Block"
119 : 0 : "Ctrl+F11" : 77 : "Clear Form"
122 : 0 : "F7" : 69 : "Enter Query"
122 : 2 : "F8" : 74 : "Execute Query"

The above changes will enable users to use F7 and F8 to 'Enter Query' and 'Execute Query' instead of default settings of F11 and Ctrl+F11.

For more info go to metalink and search for fmrweb.res you will find a lot of related info.
have a magicla day
fadi

2 comments:

APC said...

Hi

I think disabling the Ctrl+S behaviour is the wrong thing to do. I blogged about this here: http://radiofreetooting.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-ctrls-should-always-mean-save.html

Cheers, APC

fhasweh said...

thank you APC, i will take your consideration.

fadi