[Solved] Forms 10g .fmb Fails to Build ...

Question

Hi,
I've been working on a 6i to 10g conversion and we're down to the last few Forms. One Form (originally written by a person no longer working at the company so has non-standard look and feel) doesn't build under 10g - but it's fine under 6i.
By this, I mean Shift-Ctrl-K works fine for the PL/SQL but a Control-T will crash Forms builder.
It also fails to build using the command line and it fails in both Windows and on AIX.
It's a tricky one as there doesn't seem to be anything special about the Form and there isn't any error - as Builder has crashed.
Has anyone come across anything like this ? and has any useful suggestions to find where to look ? (I'm currently removing things from the Form to see when it'll build)
Steve

Answer 1

It turns out that this is the same problem that Kevin had : there was a column in the Form with the "Column Name" defined as :
box_barcode1 || '  ' || box_barcode2 || '  ' ||  box_barcode3  || '  '|| box_barcode3 || '  ' || box_barcode4 || '  ' || box_barcode5This has a length of 133 characters which appears to crash 10g.
Here's a simple JDAPI to find these things out :
package MyExamples;
import oracle.forms.jdapi.*;
public class ShowItems
   * @param args
  public static void main(String[] args)
    try
       for ( int c=0; c < args.length; c++ )
         JdapiModule.openModule(args[c]);
       invoke();
    finally
      Jdapi.shutdown();
  private static void invoke()
     for (JdapiIterator mods = Jdapi.getModules(); mods.hasNext(); ) {
       FormModule mod = (FormModule)(JdapiModule)mods.next();
       System.out.println("Form : " + mod.getName());
       for (JdapiIterator blocks = mod.getBlocks() ; blocks.hasNext(); ) {
         Block blk = (Block)blocks.next();
         for (JdapiIterator items = blk.getItems(); items.hasNext(); ) {
           Item itm = (Item)items.next();
           if ( itm.isDatabaseItem() && ! itm.getColumnName().equals("") && itm.getColumnName().length() > 123 ) {
             System.out.println("Item : "+blk.getName()+"."+itm.getName()+" Column <"+itm.getColumnName()+"> length="+itm.getColumnName().length());
}Hope this is useful !
Steve