Version 1.6.4 comes with the following changes:

• Dynamic popup menus that you can create at runtime.
  
  You can, now, add several popup menus that can be displayed with a right-click on the canvas.
  
  

• New feature that allows the end-user to sort any based table-block on any column by clicking the header.
  
  This new feature has been developed and proposed by Thanh H. BUI, a new great contributor to the LAF Project ;-).
  
  New CSS' entries have been added to let the developer grant or not this feature to the user in the modules, and also a new non-mandatory parameter in the Paint_Block() procedure to overload the CSS setting for a particular table-block.
  
    Procedure  Paint_Block
    (
      PC$Block       IN Varchar2,
      PC$BeanName    IN Varchar2,
      PC$VA_Name     IN Varchar2,       
      PC$HeadClass   IN Varchar2,
      PC$BodyClass   IN Varchar2,
      PC$TitleClass  IN Varchar2 Default Null,
      PC$Title       IN Varchar2 Default Null,
      PB$ScrollBar   IN Boolean  Default True,
      PB$SortBlock   IN Boolean  Default Null
    ) ;
  
  A new event is raised through the When-Custom-Item-Event to tell Forms to sort the table-block on a new column:
  
  DECLARE
      eventName varchar2(30) := :system.custom_item_event;
      eventValues ParamList;
      eventValueType number;
      LC$proc  varchar2(10000);
      LC$param varchar2(10000);
      LC$Order       varchar2(1000);
      LC$SortDesc    varchar2(10);
      LC$Col         varchar2(100);
      LC$BlockName   varchar2(100);     
  BEGIN
     --------------------------------
     -- Table_block sorter events  --
     --------------------------------  
     IF (eventName='IMG_HEADER_CLICKED') THEN
        eventValues := 
            get_parameter_list(:system.custom_item_event_parameters);
        get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'IMG_HEADER_SORT_VALUE'
            ,eventValueType, LC$SortDesc);
        get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'IMG_HEADER_SORT_COL'
            ,eventValueType, LC$Col);
        get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'IMG_HEADER_BLOCK_NAME'
            ,eventValueType, LC$BlockName);
        LC$Order := LC$Col || ' ' || LC$SortDesc;
        SET_BLOCK_PROPERTY( LC$BlockName, ORDER_BY, LC$Order);
        GO_BLOCK(LC$BlockName);
        Do_Key('EXECUTE_QUERY') ;
     END IF;
  END;
  
  The event name is IMG_HEADER_CLICKED and the new column value is transmitted via the IMG_HEADER_SORT_COL parameter.
  

• Bug correction on Window, Menus and Status bar appearance when the application looses the focus.
  
  When the focus is lost by the window, the colors of the Window, Menus and Status bar remain as they were defined through the LAF
  
  
• Bug correction on LAF LOVs
  
  You can, now, have special colors working to paint the LAF LOV:
  
  LR$LovRec.LOV_SCHEME := 'RGBbackground,RBGforeground' ; 
  
  e.g.:
  LR$LovRec.LOV_SCHEME := 'r40g25b40,r200g75b200' ;        
  

You have to compile the new laf.pll PL/SQL library and the PKG_DB_LAF_LOV database package. Also think to get the new laf.olb file.

 
See the Draw_LAF Java Bean properties documentation, particularly the Dynamic Popup Menus.



See the old version new features.