List Of Values (LOV) is a very helpful object in Oracle Forms 10g.
To show LOV in Forms there are two ways :
1- By Pressing CTRL + L from keyboard
2-By pressing pre-assigned Button
another way is to show the small LOV icon in the item . like this :
This trick can done by editing the file Registry.DAT
it is locatedin the path
C:\DevSuiteHome_1\forms\java\oracle\forms\registry\Registry.dat.
just edit the line app.ui.lovButtons=false
and change it to
app.ui.lovButtons=true
This is a simple and clean way