Re: [dba-dev] Address Book Integration

2007-06-12 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 12 Juin 2007 08:22, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > If you need inspiration :), I suggest looking at the KDE address book > driver. It was done by Éric Bischoff a while ago, is located in > connectivity/source/drivers/kab, a self-contained driver ded

Re: [dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday

2006-08-08 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mardi 8 Août 2006 15:44, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Not sure we're talking about the same cut'n'paste here :) > > What I mean is large chunks of codes which do exactly the same thing > (including having the same bugs) in different locations. Code which > could be ou

Re: [dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday (Was: Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries)

2006-08-04 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Vendredi 4 Août 2006 10:34, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Hi Éric, Hi Frank, (I agree with almost everything you say, so I will answer only one or two single points here) > > I feel there's also a danger to bloat your software by composing too much > > functionality

[dba-dev] Database drivers refundation, someday (Was: Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries)

2006-07-20 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 20 Juillet 2006 12:31, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > > We should open somewhere a "blackboard" where to put such ideas for > > infrastructure change. With "pros" and "cons" for each idea. > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page :) http://wiki.servi

Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries

2006-07-20 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 20 Juillet 2006 12:31, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Hi Éric, Hi Frank, > > In any case, I have the impression that we need a > > lot more brainstorming and fresh sexy ideas before we engage into such a > > big task ;-). > > My favourite sexy idea ATM is to have

Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries

2006-07-20 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 10 Juillet 2006 20:56, Joerg Budischewski a écrit : > >>My suggestion is just to merge all "primary" libs into one single lib. > >> Not sharing, merging. Not a factorization, rather an addition. > > > > Ah, okay, now I see. > > > > Yes, this would be possible. The original idea for the dri

Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries

2006-07-20 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 10 Juillet 2006 09:11, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Hi Éric, > > > My suggestion is just to merge all "primary" libs into one single lib. > > Not sharing, merging. Not a factorization, rather an addition. > > Ah, okay, now I see. > > Yes, this would be possible.

Re: [dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries

2006-07-07 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Vendredi 7 Juillet 2006 16:14, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > I see the potential for sharing code here, but I'm not sure whether a > shared "first-level" driver lib would be the way to go. Reason is that > some differences in the different implementations can only be >

[dba-dev] Linkage of drivers with libraries

2006-07-07 Thread Éric Bischoff
Hi Frank, I'd like to share a few thoughts that occured to me while I was under the shower (it always happens so for me, I don't know for you...). The KDE address book driver is split into two parts: - one DLL that loads the second DLL if certain conditions are met (namely, KDE at run time

Re: [dba-dev] localization of currency strings

2006-02-08 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mercredi 8 Février 2006 07:03, Marc Santhoff a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm searching an API for changing the appearance of values in self built > strings for use in SQL statements to the right form. > > For example: > > "SELECT something FROM anytable WHERE afield=3.45" > > In a german localized insta

Re: [dba-dev] libgda driver ?

2005-09-06 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Lundi 5 Septembre 2005 18:13, Roberto Majadas a écrit : > Hi guys : > > I'm very interested in a libgda driver for openoffice2 base because i > think that will be wonderful for openoffice. Libgda is the database > access library of gnome-office . It's developed in C and only depends of > glib ,

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 13:34, Frank Schönheit a écrit : (again, not reproducing your nice tips and my "Ah OK, thank you" answers) > I see. Okay, in database terminology this means that your database meta > data should return |false| form othersFooAreVisible methods ... I have checked, yes, they d

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Hi Frank, (skipping your many remarks where all I have to say is "OK"...) > qa.openoffice.org has a Java-based API test framework (OOoRunner, if > that's still the current name), if you want to go this way. Yes, I had seen that. Isn't this framework supposed to be written by different people as

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver

2005-08-18 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Jeudi 18 Août 2005 08:52, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Well, some drivers don't need a column class at all (as said, higher > layers will emulate missing parts of the SDBCX API in a generic way, if > not provided by the driver, or simply not provide certain functionali

[dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver (was: away this week-end)

2005-08-17 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mercredi 17 Août 2005 12:02, Éric Bischoff a écrit : > Among ado and mozilla drivers, only the ado driver seems to be doing real > property management in class OAdoColumn. mozab/MColumn.hxx contains only > two constructor declarations. > > Am I wrong if I go to the conclusio

[dba-dev] Re: Implementing the KDE Address Book driver (was: away this week-end)

2005-08-17 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Mercredi 17 Août 2005 10:32, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : > Hi Éric, Hi Frank, > As promised earlier, I'm starting to cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] here, since I like > to > keep such general discussions (driver architecture and implementations) > public. I realize that Tobias

Re: [dba-dev] Funny parser problems

2005-08-12 Thread Éric Bischoff
Le Vendredi 12 Août 2005 18:57, Éric Bischoff a écrit : > While speaking about funny parser problems... > > While parsing > SELECT * FROM addresses WHERE "Mobile Phone" IS NOT NULL > the condition "IS NOT NULL" is not recognized because the tokens are one &

[dba-dev] Funny parser problems

2005-08-12 Thread Éric Bischoff
> Now I understand what Alex Thurgood wanted to tell me, I didn't know > that notation at all. But as I see know it's documented in the help. > > But anyways, the Date sign "D" always occurs only inside a pair of curly > brackets if I understand correctly. The parser could (and should) sort > this

[dba-dev] [Announcement] New driver for KDE address book

2005-08-12 Thread Éric Bischoff
Hi everyone, http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52449 describes the task of writing a new data source driver for the address book of the K Desktop Environment (KDE). ***A few screenshots and alpha source code are attached to this page.*** KDE is one of the major desktop e