Icon path using web forms

[Ben]

Greetings,

I am having a problem with web forms.

I am using Jinitiator to view a number of forms i have made in Forms 5.0

These forms have a number of gif images in them and theirfore need to have
an icon path set. I set my icon path in the registry.dat file to something
like
default.icons.iconpath=http://server.somewhere:1701/graphics/
default.icons.iconextension=gif

I have no problems putting this path into my web browser and looking at my
gifs this way.

Although when i execute the webforms via the web browser i get this error in
the java window

Forms Applet version is : 4
Unable to create Image boilerplate: /s8b.jpg

I have no idea where it is getting the image S8b.jpg as my image is called
login.gif

Has anyone had this error before or have any idea why i get this strange
message ?

Thanks in advance
Ben

[Mark Fisher]

Hi Ben,

To display graphics on forms for the web you need to set two registry
items, and set up a directory to contain the graphics, here is what you
do:

1. Create a directory e.g. c:\web_gfx for the forms server to use
2. Add a "FORMS50_OUTPUT=c:\web_gfx" entry into the server's registry
3. Also add a "FORMS50_MAPPING=http://yourserver/web_images" entry
4. Create a "/web_images/" mapping on your web listener. If you are using
the oracle listener then configure it through the admin port and go to the
directories section for the www listener
make the mapping:
c:\web_gfx\ NR /web_images/

notice the use of leading and trailing slashes!

You need to manually delete the files in this dir occasionally, as they
tend to pile up.

Mark Fisher
Technical Specialist
Britannic Assurance

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