Advanced Oracle Pl/Sql: Programming With Packages (Nutshell Handbook)
ISBN: B00006AVR6
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 1995
Pages: 195
Pages: 195
Authors: Steven Feuerstein, Debby Russell
| Chapter 5 PL/Vision Package Specifications |
The PLVhlp (PL/Vision HeLP) package provides an architecture with which you can build online help for your own PL/SQL programs. See Chapter 17, PLVhlp: Online Help for PL/SQL Programs for details.
c_main CONSTANT CHAR(4) := 'HELP';The keyword used to designate the main help for a program. This is the default kind of help to be shown.
c_examples CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'EXAMPLES';The keyword used to designate the section of help displaying examples for a program. Other keywords can be added to the package to support other kinds of sections.
PROCEDURE set_pagesize (pagesize_in IN NUMBER);Sets the number of lines of help text to be displayed before a pause. The default is 25.
FUNCTION pagesize RETURN NUMBER;Returns the number of lines of help text to be displayed before a pause.
FUNCTION help_start (context_in IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)RETURN VARCHAR2;Returns the string needed to start a comment to be used as online help text.
FUNCTION help_end (context_in IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)RETURN VARCHAR2;Returns the string needed to end a comment to be used as online help text.
PROCEDURE show (context_in IN VARCHAR2, part_in IN VARCHAR2 := c_main);Displays the first page of help for the specified context.
PROCEDURE more;Displays the next page of help, if there is any.
| 5.13 PLVgen: PL/SQL Code Generator | 5.15 PLVio: Input/Output Processing |
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