Start the shell script in
$DBFORMS_HOME/dbforms/bin appropriate
for your operating system.
devgui.bat (win32) devgui.sh (unix,linux)
The Swing-based GUI should appear now. Documentation about using DevGui can be found in the next section.
Before using the generated application, you have to copy
the stylesheet file
dbforms.css
and the
dbformslib
directory (both can be found within
misc
directory) to your web application. The
dbformslib
directory contains a subdirectory containing two icons and
another subdirectory for the Javascript calendar application.
If you already have Ant installed, and are comfortable with
tweaking
build.xml
files then you can use the <devgui> target. The
DBFORMS_HOME
directory should be set to your current location of DbForms.
Make sure however that you have generated the DbForms jar by
running the <jar_classes> target. You will also need to
place your JDBC drivers in your
ant/lib
directory, or tweak the
build.xml
to include where your JDBC drivers are.
ant <jar_classes>
ant <devgui>