Oracle Forms Developer – Form Builder Reference, Volume 1

Setting Form Compiler Options
Form Compiler options specify Form Builder default behavior during a Form Compiler session. Some of
these options apply to file generation during development, for running and testing forms; other options
apply only when you are converting files from earlier versions to Version 6.0.
You can set Form Compiler options in two ways:
• Set options in the "Form Compiler Options" dialog box.
• Pass parameters to Form Builder on the command line when you invoke Form Compiler.
The following chart lists the Form Compiler options from the "Form Compiler Options" window and
their corresponding keyword parameters. For information on a specific Form Compiler option, see the
corresponding parameter in the alphabetical list that follows the chart.
In the alphabetical list of Form Compiler parameters, the following information is shown for each
parameter:
• example, showing the parameter set to a value other than its default
• relevant module type: Form, Menu, Library, or All
• description
• default
If you enter these keyword parameters as command line options, you can enter more than one at a time,
in any order:
ifcmp60 module=myform userid=scott/tiger batch=YES
statistics=YES
Option Name Keyword Parameter
File Module
Userid/Password Userid
Module type is Form, Menu, or Library Module_Type
Module access is File or Database Module_Access
Compile in Debug mode Debug
Show statistics Statistics
Logon to the database Logon
Write output to file Output_File
Write script file Script
Delete module from database Delete
Insert module into database Insert
Extract module from database into file Extract
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