Cannot open/find libaries in Forms6i, after installing Forms 10g.

Question

Hi
I just struggled to install Oracle Developer Suite 10g PS3 (10.1.2.3.0) on windows vista SP2.
As I also have an Oracle RDBMS 10.2.0.3.0 and Oracle Developer 6i installed on ym notebook, I have everything in different ORACLE_HOMEs.
Now, i just made a short try to migrate one of my small forms applications from 6i to 10g.
Now, I cannot run it in Forms6i anymore, even though I have different homes and even different folders (made a copy for 10g). (In fact it always tells me, it cannot find the plls) Why on earth is that??
As our customer still has 6i, it has to work! Other applications still work...
Thanks in advance
Karine

Answer 1

Hi
Yes, it is only one library which causes me problems and it has attached libraries.
After having recompiled all files (pll, olb and fmb) I could open all files, except the one causing problems. I open it, using the explorer and NOT Forms Builder. So I could at least reattach alls attached libraries (without path), recompile it.
This didn't help, but the error message suddenly showed another pll it couldn't find.
I start my application with a shortcut on the desktop.
So i reattached all libraries to the "start-form" and also recomplied it. Still no success.
BUT then i put all recomplied plx in the Folder, where all the fmx are, and now it works.
I never had to do this before and don't really understand why, because the path where all libraries are, is also in the registry-key FORMS60_PATH, but nevertheless it works :-)
Thank you, Craig, Sarah and spilgrim for your help! It was very much appreciated.
Karine
PS: Map directory?