How are forms influenced by GUI?
Forms are influenced by GUI in three basic ways: a. visual presentation of information on a form GUI changes the look of a form entirely, portraying information formerly housed in areas or blocks into “windows”. A window still contains a number of fields and are analogous to a table in ORACLE, but the presentation is slightly different compared to a non-GUI form. Windows often contain other features such as icons, scroll bars, dialog boxes, buttons, etc. All of these may enact specific functionality in ORACLE or within the BANNER application. Sometimes windows are separated into areas or blocks still, sometimes not. There is often more than one window attached to a form. The primary (or first) window viewed when the form is accessed is call the “root window”. Other windows accessed from this root window are called “branch windows”. b. Navigation on a form: In a non-GUI environment, navigation is done solely by keystroke. However, one of the enormous advantages of GUI is that it allows
