[discuss] The Navigator is broken. Ugh.

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
I was just using m95 and learned about the cool Navigator and how I can show all my headings. What a time saver. Begin Gripe Then I upgraded to m100. *poof* no more navigating numbered headings (just numbered or bulleted, regular works fine). OK, I think to myself. A bug in a beta. No

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2005-04-07 Thread Jacob Floyd
Say, does anyone on this list, or that is associated with OOo in any way, have an MSDN subscription, specifically an 'universal' subscription (or something else that gives OS beta access)? If they did, then th(at|ose) pe(rson|ople) could do testing/qa and submit any patches that might be required

Re: [discuss] tabs as a new feature

2005-04-05 Thread Jacob Floyd
The concept of multipurpose documents also sounds neat. 1. What about the ability to save such a document with one file? Would that be possible? 2. Would there be configuration problems? This would be kind of like a MS Binder doc (as in holding multiple other docs) Don't know about

Re: [discuss] tabs as a new feature

2005-04-05 Thread Jacob Floyd
Another thing, Base (in 2.0 snapshots) stores multiple Writer docs for it's forms and reports. I think that it is very possible to store multiple docs in the same document. Jacob On Apr 5, 2005 5:49 PM, Jacob Floyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The concept of multipurpose documents also sounds neat

Re: [discuss] Can educational programs be written for OO in VB or VBA? There is an offer to do so.

2005-03-27 Thread Jacob Floyd
I think that someone could write an UNO Bridge to allow use of VB. Jacob On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:23:22 -0500, Sweet Coffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone! A the webmaster for a site called Teachers-Pet.org is interested in writing some educational software for OO. Presently he

Re: [discuss] Just a question ...

2005-03-24 Thread Jacob Floyd
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1598 Please vote for issue 1598 as that is the issue that deals with viewing multiple pages in a view other than page-preview. Thanks, Jacob On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:35:06 -0600, Peter Kupfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ser gergely wrote: I'd like

Re: [discuss] Note Taking in an Office Suite

2005-03-17 Thread Jacob Floyd
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:53:39 +1100, Simon Lilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're discussing different implementations for a separate application in the OOo suite specifically made for note-taking and the collation of documents. I'd personally like to see project come to fruition, and use the

Re: [discuss] [Fwd: Note Taking in an Office Suite]

2005-03-17 Thread Jacob Floyd
I dunno. All I did was look up the site on google to see if the developers themselves were saying they want to open-source. I might download it sometime. Jacob On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:54:17 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:39, Jacob Floyd wrote

[discuss] workaround for database bug IZ#41239?

2005-03-17 Thread Jacob Floyd
I'm searching for a workaround to IZ#41239 ( http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41239 ) so that I can still use Base without restarting Base every 5 min. Also, please vote or do whatever else will help get this fixed. I've submitted as much info as I can to help figure out the issue,

Re: [discuss] Note Taking in an Office Suite

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
There's a groupware project for OOo IIRC. Perhaps all of this could be a 'view' in that app (kind of like 'queries' is a view in Base). As it might be used for collaboration eventually, this might be good to have in that app. However that app shouldn't be limited to just the server/client

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
Comments in-line: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:27:39 -0500, Sweet Coffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mr. Anrndt! How would one go about getting the programmers at OO to take an interest in this and code 1. A Media Player designed for OO Impress (which could probably be used for the rest of the

Re: [discuss] [Fwd: Note Taking in an Office Suite]

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
http://www.compusol.org/ecco/ A link to the owners site (it's no longer developed). Netmanage considers putting EccoPro in Open Source On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:41:35 -0800, jrc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: jrc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] OOo Base and JDBC. Ugh.

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
I'm currently building a MySQL database in Base and ran into an ugly bug. (Check out: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41239 ) I want to develop this in Base so that I can say I did a lot of the work for Silver Onion (silveronion.blogspot.com) in OOo, from drawing a database

[discuss] Re: Issuezilla down?

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
nevermind. I think it must have been me, because after I sent the e-mail it quit 'denying me access' and stopped loading for a VERY long time. What's strange is I could load other sites just fine. Oh well. Sorry to bug everyone. Jacob On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:32:09 -0700, Jacob Floyd [EMAIL

Re: [discuss] Note Taking in an Office Suite

2005-03-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:35:21 +1100, Simon Lilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To get to the point, I'm wondering if I can make quite a large suggestion for the future of OOo (2.5, 3.0 onward) for the incorporation of another office suite-style application. My top three open-source programs

Re: [discuss] Note Taking in an Office Suite

2005-03-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
OBTW: perhaps we could include the basic concept of stickies somehow like the folowing FLOSS product has done... http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/ Stickies for Windows Just bouncing ideas Jacob - To unsubscribe,

Re: [discuss] Re: 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
OK, I ended up staying up till 3 in the morning thinking about the problem. This e-mail kind of queued me into where I need to go and I think I finally understood relational databases, and how this relates to my problem. OLAP is for analysis of data, not inputing it, though I'd really love to be

Re: [discuss] Re: 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
OK, I ended up staying up till 3 in the morning thinking about the problem. This e-mail kind of queued me into where I need to go and I think I finally understood relational databases, and how this relates to my problem. OLAP is for analysis of data, not inputing it, though I'd really love to be

Re: [discuss] Re: 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-14 Thread Jacob Floyd
OOPS! I accidentally posted twice. sorry! Stupid refresh button! :P Jacob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-13 Thread Jacob Floyd
I clearly do not quite understand relational databases. I'm going to have to go learn more. Ugh. I try to find a tool, and I end up learning yet another thing in the process of researching something else so that I can learn enough to be able to do this project. I'm having a dominoe effect in what

[discuss] 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-12 Thread Jacob Floyd
A quick search on google didn't turn up anything that looked like what I want, so I will describe to you a database layout that I came up with this morning and would like to implement easily. I want a multi-dimensional database. Basically it has 4-6 dimensions: u v w x y z I need want to edit

[discuss] Re: 3D/4D with Base, or is there something else?

2005-03-12 Thread Jacob Floyd
OK. I found an online 'picture' that might help describe what I want. You can see a cube at http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~panda/datacube.html I'd like to then pull out say the 1991-chevy entry, get all the color entries in the column below it and have a list within each of those entries of all of the

[discuss] Google Desktop Search can now search OOo files

2005-03-11 Thread Jacob Floyd
I just realized I screwed up and sent the following to the dev list instead of discuss *hits head on wall* = Check this out: http://desktop.google.com/plugins/indextheopenoffice.html It seems Google Desktop now has an SDK to make plugins to search additional file formats. This one is

Re: [discuss] Auto Upgrading from OO.o 1.1.4 to OO.o 2.0

2005-03-11 Thread Jacob Floyd
I can understand the wish to not touch every machine. In an environment of ~500 machines it's very much the same case. We get through about 10 and get bored. :P As v2 will be a MSI based installer you can install it on all the machines without too much hastle if there's a way to quickly deploy it

Re: [discuss] The house is on fire.

2005-03-06 Thread Jacob Floyd
When looking for a CMS I suggest cmsmatrix.org I found a great OSS CMS for a project I'm working on called TYPO3. I suggest making a list of the features you'd like to see included in any new website and then doing a search, putting Free in the price text box, as that's the best way to go. Enjoy!

Re: [discuss] MSN Hotmail blocking OOo attachments Misspelling: opemoffice.org takes you to site selling MS Office

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob Floyd
[snip] I sent a question to MSN about his issue, and this was the reply I got, I am not sure what to make of it. well, let's see... Hello Hotmail Member: Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail Technical Support. Give away auto response, or at least a template that they send off to lots of

Re: [discuss] Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications

2005-02-19 Thread Jacob Floyd
[snip] What the article doesn't cover is the work going on at OpenOffice.org and OASIS regarding XForms. Good article though. Even if they missed entirely the fact that by accepting the OASIS OpenDocument specification as meeting their future file format requirements, the EU is endorsing

Re: [discuss] Blog recommendations?

2005-02-16 Thread Jacob Floyd
[snip] a free hosting service is Google's Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/ . it offer Atom feeds, which can be aggregated by Planet. if you want to host it on your own server, then Word Press is a solution http://wordpress.org/ [snip] I've found that blogger is pretty good for hosting the

Re: [discuss] Concerning OOo 2.0 modularization and simplification

2005-02-07 Thread Jacob Floyd
I don't care enough to comment on the plug in thing, but thought I'd clear up a common misconception you expressed: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:44:36 +0200, Eugen Minciu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] People that pirate windows xp choose professional because of the name. 99% of them are idiots and

Re: [discuss] Download page [WAS: Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Jacob Floyd
It seems a lot of people request an e-mail client. Perhaps below the download button we could have something like: If you'd like an e-mail client that complements OpenOffice, we suggest Mozilla Thunderbird. Find it at mozilla.org/thunderbird Perhaps Something could be worked with the mozilla

Re: [discuss] Horrendous Changes to v2.0

2005-01-27 Thread Jacob Floyd
of Liberty of options. :-) Thanks for OOo. Jacob Floyd PS I think most of this makes sense however I added some stuff that might make it not quite as clear after I read some other users (very good) suggestions. - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [discuss] Re: Horrendous v2 changes...

2005-01-26 Thread Jacob Floyd
I'm long winded I know, but I do have some ideas/feedback and I'd like to know what others think. On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:18:22 -0500, John W. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Kupfer wrote: I have about 30 files called test.sxw, but each is in a different folder with a different title.

Re: [discuss] Horrendous v2 changes...

2005-01-24 Thread Jacob Floyd
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:24:23 -0600, Peter Kupfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Calc: - * 64K rows. I worry that the bigger row count is going to lead to bigger file sizes, when really, who needs 64,000 rows in one sheet? [snip] I don't know about rows, but I sure could use twice as

Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Windows Installer

2005-01-19 Thread Jacob Floyd
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:40:17 +0100, Joerg Barfurth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Ok. I see, distributive set contains three files - .cab/.msi (with OOo itself) and two (why two, BTW?) MSI own installers (how big, BTW?). I assume one of them is for Windows NT, the other for 9x/ME. For