Help implementing mouse multi record select deselect with shift/ctrl click

Question

Forms 10.1.2.3 on Solaris Sparc 64 bit
We are trying to implement mouse multi record select/deselect using shift and ctrl click. I have read that you need the appcore library to do this but because we aren't using Oracle Applications (EBS) we can't have the appcore library.
Has anyone implemented this function without the appcore library?
Thanks

Answer 1

Why not just use a CheckBox to indicate the selected records? The downfall to almost all methods is that you end up looping through the block to see which records are selected. An alternative to this is to use a record group to record which the selected records. I created a nice little wrapper package to work with Record Groups (RG). Take a look at Forms - Record Group Processing (Duplicate Value Checking). As the name suggests, this example demonstrates how to use an RG to perform duplicate checking, but you can easily adapt the process to keep track of selected records. I use RG's for this all the time. By using the RG, it eliminates the need to LOOP through the datablock - which can be very time consuming. Instead, you loop through the RG and only navigate to the specific records you need too in order to process that record. Looping through the RG is much faster than looping through the block - especially if you have a lot of records displayed in your block.
Hope this helps,
Craig B-)
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