Just to let you know, ApexLib continues to make Oracle APEX a better product and works with also with APEX 4.0 .
ApexLib runs with APEX 4.0
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Oracle APEX 4.0, Plugins and a happy new Year
At the end of this year 2009 a lot happened, for me most important maybe the early adopter release of Oracle APEX 4.0 (check it out on http://tryapexnow.com). Continue reading
Santa Claus is coming…and brings APEX 4.0
These are good news, not only is Santa Claus coming next week, there will also be an early adopter online release of Oracle APEX 4.0! Continue reading
Enhancing Oracle Application Express Login Page
Working on many different Projects leads to a vast number of workspaces and applications over time.
Looking for a certain application can be time consuming if you don’t remember what the workspace this application belongs to is called.
How to calculate size of a CLOB in Bytes?
Recently i was dealing with a translation problem regarding multibyte characters (cyrillic). They were stored in a NCLOB and were later on moved to a VARCHAR2.
Before moving the data i had to ensure, that there will be enough space in the VARCHAR2 columns which were defined as VARCHAR2(255 BYTE).
ApexLib 2.0 released
It’s finally done !
ApexLib Version 2.0 is released, go over there and download it and enjoy the new functions. Continue reading
ApexLib uses jQuery
ApexLib 2.0 now uses the latest version of jQuery 1.3.2 . Continue reading
Boolean checkbox handling
When it comes to boolean values in the database there are many many different approaches, e.g. you can define a table column of data type number and use 1 or 0 as boolean values.
But there is much more and some of the solutions are better than others. Continue reading
Keyboard Shortcuts for Buttons
One of the drawbacks of web applications compared to rich client applications is that most of the time they lack keyboard shortcut support.
How often have you heard from a user that he wants to press a key instead of moving the mouse to click on a button?
AJAX Computations – rich client feeling
Ever got a customer request saying: “When i enter a number in this field i want to display the corresponding name over there as soon as i leave the field” ?
That’s the point where you tell your customer something about using a LOV instead or reloading the page or something else, because APEX lacks declarative AJAX functionality.
No Problem anymore, Continue reading