Forms Look and Feel Project

Version 1.7.6 comes with the following changes:

Video Player.

The DrawLAF Bean Area can display a video player, that is a wrapper for the QuickTime Java Bean. The video clip can be displayed inside the Forms canvas, but also in an independant frame, with or without a control toolbar.
The video clip can be loaded from a client machine file, an Application Server virtual directory, an Internet URL and also from a database BLOB column.

Read the DrawLAF documentation (Video Player section).

Test the new /fmb/test_laf_video_player.fmb sample dialog.

The laf.pll has been updated to include the new PKG_LOB.Load_Video_From_Base() procedure.

New LAF_XP_TextField feature.

You can conceal part of the textfield to hide information part like credit card or telephone number first (last) characters.

The LAF_XP_TextField PJC has a new method : SET_SECRET_RANGE
You can hide start, middle, end or any part of the textield:

�- Conceal the first 4 characters of the text --
Set_Custom_Property( 'blk.item', 1, 'SET_SECRET_RANGE', '1,4' ) ;

Updated DrawLAF SHOW_POPUP_MENU() method.

While the dynamic popup menu is displayed, you can define what option will have the mouse pointer on.
See the SHOW_POPUP_MENU method last argument in the DrawLAF documentation.

Updated DrawLAF NEW_ITEM events.

Whan you create a dynamic item with the NEW_ITEM or IMG_NEW method, two new information are sent back to Forms with the mouse events.
You get the mouse XY position and the mouse pressed button in the DrawLAF Bean Area
WHEN-CUSTOM-ITEM-EVENT trigger:

   ----------------------
   -- New Item events --
   ----------------------
   ELSIF (eventName='ITEM_ACTION') THEN
      get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_OBJECT'
                   ,eventValueType, p1);
      get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_NAME'
                   ,eventValueType, p2);
      get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_TYPE'
                   ,eventValueType, p3);
      get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_VALUE'
                   ,eventValueType, p4);
      If p3 = 'mouseevent' Then
         get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_MOUSEPOS'
                  ,eventValueType, p5);
         get_parameter_attr(eventValues,'ITEM_ACTION_MOUSEBUTTON'
                  ,eventValueType, p6);
      End if ;
      -- call generic procedure --
      --LAF_New_Item_Event(p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6);

Test the new /fmb/test_laf_image_popup.fmb sample dialog.

Re-compile the laf.pll and update your laf.olb file

See the old version new features.