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Easy scrolling in a table

If you have a backgound in Oracle Forms, you'll really like this post, because you are used to these functions: "key-up, key-down, current-record-visual-attribute", and so on........Especially the arrow keys to scroll a table ! It is possible to implement this in an ADF application. It takes some time to figure out, but it works, at least I'm very close now. Using some of the logic from one of my previous posts I managed to implement "easy scrolling". It take some javascript; 0: make the row current after click. "makeCurrent()". 1: find out the key pressed "checkKey()". 2: do the up or down action "nextRow()" and "previousRow()". 3: make sure you don't loose focus "holdCurrentField()". You'll have to add onclick="makeCurrent()" and onkeydown="checkKey()" to every column in you're table. This will c

Demo projectfiles available online

Some of you bloggers have been asking for source code of the application. It took me a while to make this available online. One of the reasons is that blogger does not support file upload (other than images). After googling around for a while, I decided to use googlepages. You can find the project files here. For now there's only a draft version of the MyFacesPopup and the PullDownMenu. Navigation is not yet working in this version of the Menu, but I'm sure you'll get it working. In my comming posts I will put direct references to the correct version of the dwonloadable demo's.