Hello Frank, On Thursday 18 February 2010, 10:24, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Nothing changed there, sorry: A connection still is subordinate to the > database document - there can be connections without an associated > database document, but a database document has (or can obtain) a > connection. Forms then are also subordinate to a database document. So, > the entry point for all form/report/etc. work is still the DB doc. > > What the mail tried :-\ to express
you were perfectly clear :-) > is that formerly, you could only load > existing forms (XDatabaseDocumentUI.loadComponent( DatabaseObject.FORM, > ...)), where now you can also easily create new ones via the > createComponent method. ... > Tampering with the document definitions (and other low level objects) > directly is possible, but gives you who you're doing this the > responsibility for life time etc. this new abstraction layer is very welcome, life time issues were always a pain when dealing with DocumentDefinition/s; and as extension developers are likely to work with/from the Controller, this is a nice enhancement. Thanks for bringing this info/discussion to *this* mailing list. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
