One little adition to the previous comment: It's a good idea to put he stacked canvas on a separate window. Create the window, make it modal (simple property change), make the new canvas the window's primary canvas and you'll have it look like a real input box. This is a real flaw in Developer's design - some times the simple and most common things are done the hard way ;-)
About the Flash - there is no easy way of doing it. You say you are using Developer 2000, not Developer 6 or later. Is that right? In Developer 2000 (a rather old Developer ;-)) you can only use some external VBX control to play the flash.
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by: ser6398Posted on 2002-10-31 at 10:31:42ID: 7393403
There is no default input box in Oracle Forms. But it isn't very difficult to build one. You make a Stacked Canvas (resize it to be small). Add a display item or text item to it with the required question (you can also programmatically populate the question at runtime). Add a text item to allow the user to enter their answer. Add an Ok button to it. When you need to pop up the input box, just use Go_Item to go to the text item where user inputs their answer. Add code to Ok button to move resulting data where you want it and Go_Item back to where you want.