Hi Marc, > In general I can second your opinion, but there *are* cases where using > the control is "a good thing": > > Especially when using BASIC there is no way of converting datatyes using > an API service (at lest one I know, please tell me if so!) so you'd have > to convert each value to the type the bound fields wants to see. > ... > If one uses the control/view in this scenario the only types to detect > are Date-, Time- and FormattedField bindings, all the rest is text. The > conversion and format checking is done behind the scenes.
Hmm, I see. Did you ever look at http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/script/XTypeConverter.html? It does not relief you from "complex" type handling, but might be a good first shot. Also, I'm not sure about the BoundField's "Value" property, but my gut feeling would be it should also do conversion. I might be completely wrong, though. Yet more, .updateObject on the BoundField should do conversion - effectively, all other updateFoo methods are routed through (an internal version of) updateObject. > Maybe I could name some more use cases if I'd think about it ... ;) Please think :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
