Problem in displaying messages in the status bar

Question

Hi all,
I have a custom form and whenever user clicks on the save button after entering any data in it, i would like to display a message in the status bar(as like in standard oracle forms).
I got the following solutions from some Guru's but it dint worked.
Sol 1: Setting the CONSOLE WINDOW property of the form to the custom window name.
I tried it and got the following error while compiling the form.
FRM-40735: ON-ERROR trigger raised unhandled exception
ORA-06508
In my ON-ERROR trigger i have the standard code
APP_STANDARD.EVENT('ON-ERROR');
sol 2: writing the following code snippet in POST-INSERT or POST-UPDATE trigger
clear_message;
message('Data Saved', NO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
synchronize;
With both the solutions i dint get any positive output.
Is there any other suggestions ?
Thanks in Advance.
Praveen

Answer 1

A hack: at the end of init() put
ActionListener hack = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {          showStatus("My status message"); }
new javax.swing.Timer(1000, hack).start();
Then 1000 milliseconds after init() completes it'll display your message.
There's got to be a cleaner way but if you're satisfied with this, great.
Michael