Purpose

Here is a PJC that hide parts of a text item. It is usefull to hide the begin or the end (or any part actually) of a phone number or a credit card.

Conceal Text Field



The implementation class of the PJC

     oracle.forms.fd.ConcealTextField


The methods you can call

  • Set the bounds

Set_Custom_Property( 'BL.TI', 1, 'SET_BOUNDS', '1,6' );
 
This method indicates what part of the text you want to obfusk. In this example, we want to obfusk the first six charaters.

 

 

  • Set the log

Set_Custom_Property('BLOCK.TEXT_ITEM', 1, 'SET_LOG', 'true'); 



The sample dialog

      . Download the concealtextfield.zip file
     .  Unzip the concealtextfield.zip.zip file
     .  Copy the concealtextfield.jar file in your /forms/java/ folder
     .  Add it to the archive and archive_jini tags of the /forms/server/formsweb.cfg file
        e.g.: archive_jini=frmall_jinit.jar,concealtextfield.jar
                archive=frmall.jar,concealtextfield.jar
     . Open the ConcealTextField.fmb module (Oracle Forms 10.1.2)
     . Compile all and run the module