Defining global Visual Attribute groups

Hi,
We are currently in the process of moving our forms application from Oracle 6i (client/server) to 10g Webforms (we do not use the designer). The application consists of close roundabout 400 windows.
In the 6i version we declared some global Visual Attributes in a resource file via the Oracle Terminal program. Now that we moved the forms to 10g these visual attributes groups are missing and its making certain functionalities fail like for example highligting query mode.
My question is how do we most easily incorporate the missing visual attributes into all the webforms ?
Kind regards,
Bo

As the number of forms is quite large for manual processing, even if the solution already provided is adequate. You may use the Oracle Forms API to automate the task. Theres the ORCL Toolbox applications in top of that API that may help You.

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