Increasingly, power users are requiring more and more info in a manageable form. This is the case with dashboards and financial screens. There are already a number of javabeans that can be quickly deployed with Oracle Forms 10g and the PJC depot at http://forms.pjc.bean.over-blog.com/ lists a number of very useful beans. On OTN, you can also download a number of beans and the BIgraph bean is one of them and provides a number of charts. While there are other visual display beans designed with the JAVA community in mind, only a few are available for Oracle Forms users. In attempt to alleviate this problem, we propose a basic bean that is styled like a thermometer. While it can be used for this specific purpose, it can be used in other areas as well.

The screenshot above shows the bean with the value that is set from the Forms canvas. This can also be fetched from a table and triggered by the Timer bean for example. The current value displayed by the bean can be retrieved using the Forms custom item built-in. A number of properties have been included with this bean in order to allow specific customization to be carried out by developers. Future versions will include other properties that will enhance the graphic aesthetics. Download bean, FMB, technical note and source code

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