Regarding deleteing a block of data

Question

Hi All,
I want to delete a record and have create a form with a block named
'BLOCK_DELETE'.
In this form ,I have added 3 text items...i.e empno,name,dob to be deleted from the database.
I have added a button "DELETE" ,which when pressed calls the when-button-pressed will delete the data because i have written following code
begin
     delete from emp
     where
     emp_no = :emp_no ;
commit;
--commit_form;     
     exit_form;
end;
I get a confirmation the following info
'Transaction Complete: 1 record saved and applied'
but when I check the database ,the record is present ...
i tried commit_form did not work
how can i go about this. I need to close the form as well.
cheers
s

Answer 1

If your block is a database block and you want to
delete the record displayed, why don't you use the
DELETE_RECORD built in instead of your code?
Hi Torsten,
I am bit new to forms and was not aware of DELETE_RECORD builtin .
Now i have replaced the above code with
begin
Delete_Record;
commit_form;     
end;
this has been written in the when-button-pressed trigger...
this has not helped me either....any suggestion ?
Regards
s