Forms 10.1.2.0.2 + Windows 7
I would like to add some button icons to our environment. So I have searched this comminity on this subject and read some help on "Icons" phrase in Forms Builder.
And I'm confused. Like for example here:
Michael writes "The Forms Builder 9.x+ supports ico, jpg, and gif files. It will not however read them from a jar. Therefore, you will need to extract them into a directory as defined by UI_ICON"
Our Forms Builder is definitely 9.x+, but what about UI_ICON variable. I found 2 of those, one in Windows Environment Variables (pointing to "C:\Dev10\forms\icons") and the other one in Registry (pointing to "C:\Dev10\reports\plugins\resource")
Both of those locations have icon files, the first one .gif ones and the second one .ico. The icons I see in the application match the ones from the first location (one with gif's)
But when I change this UI_ICON values for any 2 of those locations to "blabla", nothing changes in Forms Builder as opening fmb with the icons still opens fine and the icons are visible. So it looks like there must be a third UI_ICON variable somewhere (the real one)?
Then in Help in Forms Builder, there is something oposite, saying the the UI_ICON is the old way of doing things in client/server environment, and now its done differently:
"This environment variable establishes the directory in which you wish to store icons (as well as GIF and JPG images) used for buttons in your layout.You can define more than one directory by separating directory entries according to operating system conventions. Unlike the client/server model of previous versions of Forms, Oracle Forms has no UI_ICON variable to locate icons used in Forms applications. Instead, image icons in Oracle Application Server Forms Services are referenced by a URL that is constructed internally based on three things: the "imagebase" parameter in the formsweb.cfg configuration file, the icon name in the items property palette, and the default icon path setting in the Forms Registry.dat properties file"
I also tried doing this, but it did not move me any forward in what I want to achive. I also tried to search my machine with the names of the icons from our forms and the only location found what the one with the gif's I described above. But if the icons are in jar file (what our admin is sure it is this way, but Michael quoted above states opposite) then searching file system is pointles.
So, how can I find where our current set of icons is? (so I could add some more)