Oracle Forms

Hi All,

We are trying to migrate our Forms application from OAS 10g to Weblogic 11g. In testing, we found a strange problem that I can't seem to resolve.

In many of our .fmbs, we set the "Access Key" property of buttons to numeric values (eg 1, 2, 3) so users can quickly enact a button press by hitting Alt+1 , Alt +2 etc on the keyboard.

In 11g, we've noticed that if they use the keypad (10-key area) on the right of the keyboard, instead of enacting the button press, the Windows Alt-key functions are superseding it and random special characters are entered (eg an emoticon, a square, a bullet point , etc). The "num lock" key seems to have no effect. (I will say that the number keys above the keyboard work fine though).

In 10g, if there was a button with an Access Key property that was a number, using the keypad seemed to supersede the alt-key function in windows. (So if a button has "Access Key" set 2, pressing alt+2 using the keypad would enact the button press, not an emoticon). If there was no button with "Access Key" property set, then then alt-key ascii characters would be sent.

Is this something we can control in the configuration? How can we disable the alt-key functions, or at least, have Forms ignore them if they "Access Key" property is set on a button?

Thanks a lot...