Newbie forms question

Hi,
I'm just experimenting with forms (in the development suite) and I have now created a data block with table data, got it running within a browser and was feeling quite pleased with myself.
I have now tried to do a similar thing with a stored procedure and I get the error message FRM-10764 no argument of type table or refcursor.
Now I've done some plsql so I know about ref cursors, I do not however know what a table object is, or more to the point how/why a pl/sql procedure would/could return a table object.
Can anyone explain this concept of how a procudure returns a table object and why is it that forms will not let me just display a single string or numeric response from a procedure?
thanks in advance,
Paul.

Ed,
I am newbie myself on Oracle but I think I can help you on this one. Do the following:
1) Create the buttonl;
2) Assign a WHEN_BUTTON_PRESSED trigger to that button;
3) Use the CALL_FORM built-in procedure to call the second form; (look for examples on the help / forms builder help topics, it's a pretty good source of code sample and examples)
Hope it works out.
Gleisson

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