[dba-dev] vacation notice

2009-07-17 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi, during the next three weeks, you won't read anything from me in this list, as I'll be on vacation, and hardly be able to access the internet. You probably won't be able to discern this phase from any other three-week phase of silence of mine, but I thought I nonetheless mention it ... Have

Re: [dba-dev] DisposedException - EOF reached

2009-07-01 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi René, Yes, I already found out what IIRC meant. :-) I'm not of the sms generation! I definitely do not belong into this generation either :) I indeed played with the code and during my attempts removed registerObject. I believed it was not so important where this was done Correct.

Re: [dba-dev] OO database sort problem

2009-06-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, I suppose Robby is pointing to the use of the filterering who have a bug when making a filter with the GUI OO produce SQL a statement like SELECT * FROM pmgdbase.tbl_leveranciers WHERE ( pmgdbase.tbl_leveranciers.Uithangbord = 'alphadent' ) This gives a error because

Re: [dba-dev] OO database sort problem

2009-06-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, For the first problem: Which database? MySql native connector Hmm, cannot reproduce. Can you give us a table dump (structure only is sufficient)? Thanks Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer frank.schoenh...@sun.com - - Sun Microsystems

Re: [dba-dev] OO database sort problem

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Robby, I have been an OO user for years and mostly love your package, however I recently ran up against the sort bug in OO 3.1.0 Base. Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the sort bug in OO 3.1.0 Base? Thanks Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer

Re: [dba-dev] How can I store the default values and column descriptions in odb file?

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, I would like to store default values and the column descriptions in the odb files as we do not fully support them in the database. Is it right that base can do this for us or must the driver implement the functionality to store the values in the odb files? I have neither an idea

Re: [dba-dev] sun-report-builder-alpha-1.1.1.m49 and DEV300m50

2009-06-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, I tried the SRB alpha 1.1.1 from qa-upload with m50, and found unusable on report wizard. Creates empty report in m50, but works correctly in m49. When click to second steps (labels) SRB hang, if I click on next 3 times after ~40s suddenly go to step 5. When I click on finish,

Re: [dba-dev] OpenOffice accessing Access 2007 database under Vista SP2

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Rob, I wonder if you can help me. I am trying to read an Access 2007 database from OpenOffice 3.1 on a computer running MS Windows Vista SP2 I am getting an error The connection to the data source could not be established. Function sequence error Unfortunately, Function sequence

Re: [dba-dev] Table wizard quirks OOo dev 3.2 m47 (partof SRB for ...)

2009-06-03 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltan, for the record: On linux m47 still installed, submitted issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102450 meanwhile resolved as duplicate of issue 102436 (as you can see from the number, this is pretty recent, too). Thanks a lot for submitting the issue, even though we

Re: [dba-dev] Table wizard quirks OOo dev 3.2 m47 (partof SRB for ...)

2009-06-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, From my earlier mail: 1. in table wizard, the personal and bussiness categories content changed with each other, you can find for example CD-Collection in bussiness category. (in both win/linux) I logged out stated new session on linux, same error. Meanwhile known as issue

Re: [dba-dev] 2 Strings appearing in English in Base UI

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Sophie, For the background: Those strings were added after the localization freeze, but I wanted to have the feature in, so I decided we can go without a localization for 3.1. But don't tell anybody ;) I promise that the next bug dedicated to you will be written in this language :

Re: [dba-dev] Some issues on 3.1.0 with macros

2009-05-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ariel, -- * Create a new database document (menu File - New - Database) * Create a new macro (menu Tools - Marcos - Organize macros - OOo Basic, then select the ODB, and press the New button)

Re: [dba-dev] Open database document from beamer - Bad Beamer.

2009-04-09 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, Can I suppose that 100764 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100764 is a duplicate and is also been fixed now ? Uhm, no, this sounds like a completely different issue to me, of which I wasn't aware so far. Will have to investigate. Ciao Frank -- - Frank

Re: [dba-dev] Open database document from beamer - Bad Beamer.

2009-04-08 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Drew, Yes, it is the same with Linux. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100956 Thanks for finding and reporting this. Interesting bug, from a technical point of view :). Fixed. For 3.1, hopefully. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer

Re: [dba-dev] i99686 and srb 1.1.0 Beta

2009-03-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, I tried to check issue 99686 (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99686), issued by me, in DEV310m7, and it failed to show pictures in report. I used SRB 1.1.0.beta (2009.03.09, from qa upload server), it raised question, I need to use another version? The fix

Re: [dba-dev] Need i-team for specification [was [dba-dev] New Filter Dialog]

2009-03-09 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Karl, There does not seem to be much interest in ux and qa... :-( As Liz said, it might indeed be possible that especially UX is on the Cebit ... I have finished a first version of a specification. Lots of details are still missing. I didn't pay, for example, any attention to

Re: [dba-dev] Macro Migration Remarks

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, I did the migration from 2.4 to 3.1 (latest snapshot m3)off a complex db-doc with 2 forms containing several libraries with soem dialogs in it. Everyting went extremly well :-) Fine :) well execpted The names of the libraries are changed to a combination off the original

Re: [dba-dev] Need i-team for specification [was [dba-dev] New Filter Dialog]

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Karl, So please read on, as I need a member of dev, ux and qa. I might not have all the necessary time, but if nobody else volunteers for the dev part, then count me in. (But be warned that I seldom can resist giving UX-related comments :) On [2] I found some other things that need to be

Re: [dba-dev] Form Tablecontrol event: how to obtain column, row and other information

2009-03-03 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Karl, (1) Was the mouse pressed in a particular cell, and if so, which one? (2) Was the mouse pressed on a column header, and if so, which column? (3) Was the mouse pressed on a row marker, and if so, which row? (4) Was the mouse pressed outside of header, row markers and cells?

Re: [dba-dev] New Filter Dialog

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Karl, So I _could_ start...? Definitely. Of course the more people you involve, especially from UX the more chances the specified changes will ever become reality :) (And of course, the more people you involve, the more difficult it will become due to the lot of different opinions :) I

Re: [dba-dev] Poll mailing list working?

2009-02-20 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Regina, are you sure, it works now? There's rarely something I am sure about in collab.net's infrastructure. There's at least one message (except my test messages, which I deleted from the archive to not clutter it) by now:

Re: [dba-dev] About hiding the new interface XRecovery for FormDocument

2009-02-13 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Yan, A new interface com.sun.star.frame.XRecovery is being designed. It will be used by the autorecovery service inside the framework module and supported by all applications. FormDocument of database, which is not used as a top level document, will ignore the new interface.

Re: [dba-dev] MWS builds and SRB development

2009-02-12 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, It is a possible to attach to any MWS, versions of SRB which allows new features supported in main code, same way as dictionaries installed with OOo? bundling extensions with the OOo distribution is technically easily possible, but a political issue. People need to decide and

Re: [dba-dev] Macro migration wizard in m41

2009-02-10 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Peter, after migrating the macros from a form to the document (which seems to end successfully), the macro organize dialog neither lists the document nor a opened form. Don't know, if this is a base issue. It is. This problem came in with m38, where two DBA-CWSes were integrated, and a

Re: [dba-dev] Events on Form TableControl-elements not working

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, I tried to put a Mouse Click event on a Textfield (column) in a TableControl ioff aForm. The event is ignored and the macro on the event is not called Puting the Mouse Click Event on the TableControl itself works properly For the moment I found a work around using the

Re: [dba-dev] Developer offers help in PDF Form export

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, One company offering help in PDF export, on community forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53t=14899 As I know, you are the developer of Forms in OOo. I answered in the forum, thanks for the pointer. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software

Re: [dba-dev] OOo Base 3.1 New Features wiki page

2009-02-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, I compiled a wikipage from features mailing list mails, and some cases from requirement documents. that's great - next time somebody asks me what's new in 3.1's Base, I know where to direct him to! Thank you very much! Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer

Re: [dba-dev] DEV300_m39 breaks in evoab2 NResultSetMetaData.cxx

2009-01-19 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ariel, DEV300_m39 breaks in connectivity/source/drivers/evoab2 ... if you're not aware of an issue for this - please submit one. This could be fixed as master fix (i.e. directly for m40, not in a CWS). Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer frank.schoenh...@sun.com -

Re: [dba-dev] Problems with i_only_updt_1.bas i_only_updt_2.bas in testing m14 linux Hungarian version

2009-01-12 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, I only testing m14 on linux Hungarian version, I finished all required tests and tried to upload test results, and I uploaded all, but two error msg I get. ... I'm not sure Marc (who's in charge of the auto tests) reads here - again, I recommend trying d...@qa. We mortal

Re: [dba-dev] How to keep users away from Tabels ?

2009-01-12 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Fernand, CWS dba31h any idea when i will be available for us ? it's one of our last CWS' towards 3.1, its timeline depends on the frequency of new 3.1 bugs coming in (the more 3.1 bugs, the earlier dba31h will be full - but please don't feel tempted :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit,

Re: [dba-dev] Using testtol on Base and screenshots

2009-01-09 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Zoltán, Base cat0 tests not creating screenshots, all other parts of OOo creating it, nearly all of dialogs. Can be scripts changed to support screenshots? Do not remotely know ... You might have better chances with this question in d...@qa. As a last resort, approach msc at

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Fwd: [office] ODF 1.2 proposal votes result

2009-01-07 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, I'd love to work on this together again, but it would be nice to have an agreed-upon solution with the TC first. Something that's actually workable, so that we don't waste our time again. Didn't forget you/r mail, but am quite busy at the moment, sorry. Will come back to this.

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-12-17 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, sorry, after pushing you to use the mailing list for all those discussions should have sent my previous mail too the list, too. So, for the record, I copy it here ... - snip - Hi Jonathan, as a preface, let me say that in my understanding (I didn't mention this

Re: [dba-dev] OpenDocument event assigned macro can not execute - now what?

2008-12-16 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Drew, Embedded macros. The current development builds for OO.o 3.1 (DEV300_m37) includes both macro libraries being embedded in the ODB file, versus the individual forms, and supports document events (open document, etc) for the ODB file. Unless really server issues pop up with this

Re: [dba-dev] OpenDocument event assigned macro can not execute - now what?

2008-12-14 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Drew, Thinking about achieving my goal then it seems there is a second property that wold be needed at the ODB file level. Hide Base window ( Yes / No ) Okay, I wasn't explicit about this, but I fully agree that this is a necessity for addressing your scenario. Finally, it would be

Re: [dba-dev] OpenDocument event assigned macro can not execute - now what?

2008-12-11 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Drew, Errrm, logically, it shouldn't run the macros. Ideally, you would get a message telling you that macros have been deactivated or that you don't have the rights to run MyMacro etc, but wait, let me guess, OOo just crashes without warning ? Or better still, it runs the macros

Re: [dba-dev] system-jfreereport in m36

2008-12-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Rene, I was just resyncing my configuretoplevel cws (which makes system-jfreereport work without additional patching) to m36 and saw this: You don't mention which module you found this in, and I don't recognize, but what does tell svn annotate tell you about the change? Ciao Frank -- -

Re: [dba-dev] system-jfreereport in m36

2008-12-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Rene, You don't mention which module you found this in, and I don't recognize, reportdesign, obviously. Sorry, intended to look into makefile.mk but auto-completed makefile.pmk. but what does tell svn annotate tell you about the change? Didn't look. Then please do. To me it looks as

Re: [dba-dev] Thunderbird-Addressbook

2008-11-27 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Mechtilde, Do you mean how to find the directory used for different profiles? I have two different user directories. Isn't that stored in the profiles.ini file found in the directory .mozilla-thunderbird Under Ubuntu for instance this is located at /home/user name/.mozilla-thunderbird

Re: [dba-dev] [mysqlnative] system-mysql

2008-11-26 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Rene, Actually they claim have released a 1.0 already ;-) http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/connector_cpp_preview [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mysql-connector-cpp-20081125$ head -n 1 CHANGES Alpha 1.0.1 - xx/xx/2008 With an ABI/API change in a *micro* release, and it seems they didn't

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, It seems it is finished? So did you already pass the CWS to Mechtilde, or are there still fixes needed? yes, rebase is finsished and Mechtilde is doing manual test, while André Schnabel is doing the automatic tests on Win/Linux. Just saw that CWS sqlsyntaxhighlighting is nominated

Re: [dba-dev] Thunderbird-Addressbook

2008-11-24 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Mechtilde, I want to create a connection to my Thunderbird addressbook under Linux (Debian) I choose File - New - Database - Choose a connection to an existing database - Thunderbird Addressbook Then I can choose Browse and see 2 addressbooks. My problem now is: I want to know

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Connecting to an LDAP server

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ferry, It is is not a matter of responsibility, but usability. ... And Base could serve great as front end. After all you need a way to get the data into the ldap server as well as out. Let me put it the other way round: There's a lot of things which *could* be implemented in

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-11-20 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi John, I'm attempting to shanghai an existing thread to (re?)introduce discussion about radio button group names; see: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200811/msg00011.html Let's see how that goes... Can't access this, as it's a

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, Rebase is running right now. It seems it is finished? So did you already pass the CWS to Mechtilde, or are there still fixes needed? Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, yes, rebase is finsished and Mechtilde is doing manual test, while André Schnabel is doing the automatic tests on Win/Linux. Bettina told me that she will be working on the colors this week. Okay, fine. PS: mechtilde agreed to postpone the Mac issue to a follow up fix in a next

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, Which brings me to: Our QA here in Hamburg is busy with a lot of other CWS' which are targeted for 3.1, too. Mechtilde (German QA-Project) will do the QAing and aggreed to postpone the mac issue. Okay, the CWS is in good hands, I'd say. yes, she told me to have a look rather

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-11 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, [X] I think it's finished, and I just don't dare to say ;-) ouch, now I remember again the last remaining issue. According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], bracket matching does not work on Mac, no idea why. Would you have access to one and could debug there? Otherwise, I get mine in 1 -

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Maximilian, [X] I think it's finished, and I just don't dare to say ;-) So yes, finding a QA person and getting it in for 3.1 would be great. Okay. However, you should rebase your CWS to m35, since m34 saw some big changes in dbaccess. I am not sure they would conflict, but we should be

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Peter, I darkly remember having seen the Basic IDE code years ago, do I remember correctly that highlighting is done on a per-line basis, so the problem here is that we always generate one-line SQL statements? In this case, it might be an additional ... motivation to make the Query

Re: [dba-dev] improved SQL view

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, ... So - just speaking for myself...thank you for the time and effort you are putting in to it. Which is something I'd like to explicitly sign with my name, too. illegible_scribble/ Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software

Re: [dba-dev] Localization issue with error messages

2008-10-28 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Sophie, I have a localization issue with error messages in Base. They appear to be duplicate in French and English, but the English part is more verbose, for example: - Erreur lors de l'insertion du nouvel enregistrement Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column...

Re: [dba-dev] Localization issue with error messages

2008-10-28 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Sophie, Would it be possible to have only one fully localized message? The fact that some messages are duplicate is a general problem that our error handling is not always ... optimal, which can be fixed on a case-by-case basis only, since it's hard to impossible to judge, just from

Re: [dba-dev] Re: [qa-dev] HSQLDB 1.9.0 features description

2008-10-27 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Cor, Zoltán, I find on HSQLDB page the features for coming out in near future 1.9.0 (will in alpha phase) new features description: http://hsqldb.org/web/features190.html Zoltan those are online for quite some weeks now - you're late ;-) All (x-posting now): when can this be expected in

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-10-27 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, 2. I lack imagination. More specifically, given what little I know about why the original proposal was rejected Let me repeat it: It was not rejected. Florian ended the discussion with open issues, and there was never a decision about the proposal. That's the statement I got from

Re: [dba-dev] some issues in cws sqlsyntaxhighlighting

2008-10-20 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, - optcolor.src:448: Should be SQLIDENTIFIER instead of BASICIDENTIFIER (copy'n'paste error) seems like you missed the latest svn update, found that one last night :-) Indee, the SVN version of the CWS is just building, I still used the CVS version this afternoon. Thanks a lot,

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-10-20 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, So, in short: I think before going for any non-ODF-compliant extensions to the file format, I think you guys should drive the proposal, until the point where it either has been accepted, or rejected. Does your silence mean [ ] you decided to go with the non-ODF-compliant

Re: [dba-dev] some issues in cws sqlsyntaxhighlighting

2008-10-19 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, Thanks, after I fixed another thing, it is now working perfectly fine except the group caption is not showing up, but I'm sure I'll find that one as well soon. Okay, so I won't investigate here ... Thanks for mentioning this possibility again. Although I could swear I did this a

Re: [dba-dev] some issues in cws sqlsyntaxhighlighting

2008-10-15 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Max, (uhm, I did it again, I called you with your full name in my last mail ... sorry :-\ ) just had a quick look, so only a short comment: *trying to get the value does also not seem to work, I always get the default one, although it is saved upon closing and

Re: [dba-dev] some issues in cws sqlsyntaxhighlighting

2008-10-14 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Maximilian, back from vacation and exams, I have some issue in cws sqlsyntaxhighlighting, would be great if you could help out once you find some time: need to get a copy of the CWS here to have a deeper look, this will take a while. - I tried adding a new group in the appearance

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-10-01 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, Okay, I went through some documents introducing to the CWS concept. In case using a CWS to apply my changes, I'll need to checkout the most recent milestone via cwsquery, create the CWS via cwscreate, apply my changes locally to the CWS and commit them to the CWS via a CVS commit,

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-09-30 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, Indeed, this problem hadn't occurred to me until Tuesday of this week - any existing ODF parsers aren't going to know about a group-name attribute, and thus will be relying on the name attribute for grouping semantics. Adding any form of group-name attribute cannot work in

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-09-30 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, It's been a while since I wrote to the mailing list last time, because I was on vacation. You may remember that we were working on a driver. We are finished with the driver so far and would like to integrate it into the core code base. Probably we need to do some small changes to

Re: [dba-dev] Outer Join 2.4 vs 3.0

2008-09-26 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Mechtilde, I'm trying to use queries which I created since 1.9.xxx. In Version 3.0.0 RC2 I see the problem that I can't open these queries in the design view not in the SQL view. But this isn't possible. I get this error message (in German): Verknüpfung konnte nicht ausgeführt werden.

Re: [dba-dev] Radio Button Group Names in ODF

2008-09-25 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, To move the discussion from Issuezilla [0] to email... thanks. This solution also adds a //form:radio/@form:group-name attribute to ODF to persist this new property, so that it's actually useful within ODF documents. The problem: The above solution was rejected by the ODF

Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio

2008-09-25 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Marc, The proper macro has an additional oPipe.closeOutput right after writing the document into the pipe, but before passing the pipe to setBinaryStream. That does work. :) Fine. I assume blocking on giving the exact size as a limit did for the same reason, waiting for the EOF.

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-09-08 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, I feel I am missing something not knowing anything about base :-/ so please any example ( and steps for dummies ) to test with base would be very interesting for me attached to the issue (pretty minimalistic, but it should give you an idea when you open the form in the DBDoc). you

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, You enable the Link check box the wrong way 'round - it must be enabled when there is *no* field, since if and only the control is bound to a field, then the image will be stored in the database, anyway. sigh that's why I didn't like not being able to test it, but still I shouldn't

Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio

2008-09-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Marc, I hope your workload will lower soon. In fact the statement I'll file an issue ... is part of the citation. ;) Oh ... which also means the other part of the citation wasn't mine - doh, I knew that was too profound for that ... But I'd take that task if I am sure what to write.

Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio

2008-09-02 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Marc, Using dbase I succeeded in writing othe train to ut a doc this way, for mysql or hsql the office hangs. See some code below, maybe the limit-argument is the problem, which I set to 65536 as a limit and the document was anytime smaller than that on storage (~30kB). it might ... The

Re: [dba-dev] What can look empty but not be NULL?

2008-08-28 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Barbara, Now, with 2.4.1, the GUI is having a great deal of trouble with these queries (at least sometimes). It tells me the query is too complex to be edited with the GUI, or if it shows it, the NOT LIKE vanishes from the condition leaving only '*/*' -- not at all what I want! That

Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio

2008-08-28 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Marc, This *may* be something like the documentation bug there was talk about once upon a time. You wrote: cite Hi Matthias, The only conclusion I can draw from such an inconsistent API is that any implementation that claims to be usable can only ignore the 'Length' argument.

Re: [dba-dev] 64-bit version of the PostgreSQL SDBC driver ? Pretty please ?

2008-08-25 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi *, I have used the PostgreSQL SDBC driver for a while ...on x86 machines. I currently use a new laptop with an Intel Core2 Duo. Consequently, I installed Ubuntu Hardy amd64. This distribution has a openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql package, which is 0.7.5, and no update yet to 0.7.6. I

Re: [dba-dev] How to store formated text in OO base

2008-08-25 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Peter, The field doesn't support clipboard or transferable actions with formatted text. Worth an RFE? Sure. (Though I admit the thing I would want to fix before for this control is the inability to store its content in a database field ...) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software

Re: [dba-dev] Image control aspect ratio

2008-08-21 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Andrew, My expectation is that most images will be larger than the control size. I am scanning receipts so that I can extract the image from the database and print it if I require warranty repair on something. Okay, in this case the Scale property in its current appearance doesn't help

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-08-11 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, thanks for your recent changes, this is going to look better and better ... Two non-negligible (IMO) issues: + removing an embedded image from a control is possible in some round-about way only: You need to set a linked image, and then remove it. This is a pretty bad user

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-08-11 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, since of course we want it to handle the placeholder text as one big chunk only (i.e. when the user starts to type, the place holder is completely removed). Not sure how difficult this would be. not sure what you mean about that, probably what you mean will become obvious when

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael Strobel wrote: There is no issue for this, because I wanted to get sure that this is problem is not related to our driver. Since I couldn't reproduce the behavior with MySQL today, but only with Ingres I'm not quite sure about that. On the one hand the default values are not saved

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, + bug: - open a new text document - insert an image control - do not assign any graphics to the image control - save the document = assertion saying something about forbidden acccess to an empty bitmap (non-product builds only) seems to be to do with creating

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-08-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, I'm still confused what is happening to the default values in Base. You mentioned before that they never appear in the database and are stored in the base document instead. Seems to be correct, they do never appear in the database, but how is that done? IIRC (it's a while since I

Re: [dba-dev] New application controller API

2008-08-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ariel, I will commit this fix to CWS dba31b - the issue probably does not really qualify as stopper for 3.0, though this is sad indeed. :-( does this mean it will have to wait to 3.1 (which, if IIRC, is intended to Jan. 2009)? Originally yes. Now no: Just got, over there in [EMAIL

Re: [dba-dev] Re: New application controller API

2008-08-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ariel, * sal_Bool dbaui::OApplicationController::isConnectionReadOnly() const hmm, this wouldn't be so much faster than controller.getActiveConnection().isReadOnly() , would it? * sal_Bool dbaui::OApplicationController::isDataSourceReadOnly() const should be the same as

Re: [dba-dev] Re: New application controller API

2008-08-04 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Ariel, PS: reading at the sources I found a pair of things I'd like to have at the XDatabaseDocumentUI, may I ask them for? Sure. (Asking is always allowed :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems

Re: [dba-dev] New application controller API

2008-08-04 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Ariel, I just started testing the css.sdb.application.DefaultViewController, but as the first try reveals two important issues, I decided to report my findings before finishing a nicer/cleaner demo. Okay, using your extension, I reproduced the problems, and fixed them based on your

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-07-31 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, A flag saved at the data source / database document and supplying it's default from within the driver is absolutely sufficient for our needs. :-) small misunderstanding - supplying the default from within the driver is exactly the item which we don't have an infrastructure for. We

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-07-29 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Michael, I would like to prevent that OOo Base asks if it should delete a column and append a new one, when the column definition can't be modified. Is it possible to do this from within the driver or switch it of in one of Base's option dialogs (I didn't see anything like this, but

Re: [dba-dev] embedded images in form controls

2008-07-28 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, appeared on my radar again ;-), so I decided to try and fix it myself. great, I'm looking forward to have this feature. I do have some questions/queries etc. when looking at the patch you will see my silly comments about those The only question I found is the patch is the one

Re: AW: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-07-21 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, first of all thanks for your response. I think I forgot to tell this, as I'm usuallyworking from Monday to Wednesday or Thursday only, it may take some time till I respond to the mails here. As you might have noticed, my answers are delayed, too - I do not work on Fridays, and

Re: [dba-dev] syntax highlighting and other improvements

2008-07-16 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Maximilian, I started syntax highlighting and other small improvements for the SQL view, an inital start can be found here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SQL_Syntax_Highlighting This is mainly to make others aware of it and it is just an early draft, but I am looking

Re: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-07-16 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, Ocke's on vacation for a while, so let me jump in here. Which classes you are talking about? The best way is to get rid of the dependency of JDBC. I need a specialized ResultSetMetaData class for the driver, but to integrate this class I also need to inherit the Driver,

Re: [dba-dev] writing a new SDBC(X) driver, similar to the MySQL driver

2008-07-16 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Michael, me again ;) Probably there is bug regarding the save process in Base when changing a default value or a description text. It appears with MySQL and Ingres, but not with HSQLDB. I reviewed the driver method OTable::alterColumnByName, but I didn't find the root cause for this. To

[dba-dev] vacation notice

2008-07-03 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello *, just as a note, I'll be on vacation 'til Monday, July 14th, and will neither read nor answer mails in this list here. Please take this as an excuse if I'm unresponsive during that time ... Ciao Frank PS: No beautiful landscapes this year ... instead I'm going to see whether a ketogenic

Re: [dba-dev] Bug with border of controls - m19

2008-06-30 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Cor, In m19, the border of a textfield and listbox on a basic dialog is not shown in design mode. Known issue? Yes, though the number slips me. The VCL team fixed this in m20, IIRC. Thanks Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun

Re: [dba-dev] Re: data aware controls for basic dialogs

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, Well, what probably could and should be done then is overriding the XBindableValue and XListEntrySink interfaces in form's control models, this way disabling (and re-implementing) the complete binding functionality of toolkit's models. I presume you mean in the case where the

Re: [dba-dev] syntax highlighting (was: [dba-dev] Hi all...)

2008-06-14 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Maximilian, - the wiki page mentiones editview/editengine, but from a first look/comment, textengine/textview (or exteditengine/editview) is enough and faster for our purpose (http://lxr.go-oo.org/source/util/svtools/source/edit/texteng.cxx#2846) (Although all these can be replaced

Re: [dba-dev] On Option Buttons...

2008-06-14 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, Improved patch attached. Looks very good to me, didn't find any issues. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base

Re: [dba-dev] Re: data aware controls for basic dialogs

2008-06-14 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Noel, If you're interested in the cell binding stuff only, for the moment, but maybe other properties might become interesting also ... I guess what I was trying to tease out in my clumsy way is, do you think it worth moving the 'value binding' bits out forms to the 'base' control model

Re: [dba-dev] On Option Buttons...

2008-06-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, as always, a deeper review of your patch will have to wait ('til next week), but here are some short comments already ... Fixed. Though one thing I don't quite understand is why ORadioButtonModel::_propertyChanged() can't call OReferenceValueComponent::_propertyChanged() when

Re: [dba-dev] dbf file character encoding missing from Base and Calc

2008-05-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Andreas, I just stumbled upon one of the rare unanswered questions in the user forum. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40t=1181 I think this question can be aswered by a developer only. The dBase driver (and thus Calc's dBase import) only support character

Re: [dba-dev] On Option Buttons...

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Jonathan, Please see and review the attached patch. + In your current patch, both the toolkit controls and the form controls declare a GroupName property, which leads to ambiguities at runtime. (A non-product build will report those ambiguities - that's why I always advertise

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