On 11 September 2011 23:54, Anne Wainwright <anothera...@fables.co.za> wrote: > Hello, Jaroslaw, > > thank you, I have that going, see note below. > > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:52:56 +0200 > Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> wrote: > >> On 10 September 2011 14:52, Anne Wainwright <anothera...@fables.co.za> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Last time I wrote we weren't there, now we are and I have >> > upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and have Kexi 2.2.2 running. >> > >> > (See thread started by Swarup 24 March 2011) "How to add a column to >> > table in Kexi 1.1.3?). >> > >> > My databases were created using Kexi 1. Would I be right in suspecting >> > that there are incompatibilities with these and Kexi 2 and that I >> > will have to create a new database using Kexi 2 ? >> > >> > We can connect and view data in the main database table and queries but >> > the original data entry form is no-go. In Data view we get a page >> > layout of 'KexiDBAutoField's but no data. In Design view I see no >> > fields in the Property Editor and thus no way of assigning fields to >> > the display, or even of creating a new form. >> > >> > The following is given in the Property Editor. >> > "No datasource can be assigned for this widget" >> > so it looks like it does not read from the existing. >> > >> >> Hello Anne, >> Support for AutoField widgets is the major visible change since Kexi 2.2. >> Users have to remove them and insert text boxes and text labels instead. > > If I drop a 'text box' onto the form then it crashes kexi which > disappears totally.
Hi Anne, Could you paste backtrace information, a list that appears in the 'crash' window afterwards? >> >> > Whether I look at my main postgresql database or one created in SqLite >> > the situation is the same. >> >> That's true, the incompatibility is withing forms so it's independent >> of the data source type. >> >> We plan to have flexible layouts that would cover the use case of >> autofields better. >> >> To make life easier for users of Kexi 1.x I just came to conclusion >> that AutoFiels should be somehow 'imported' as labels+text boxes. It >> would be for Kexi 2.4.1 or so. >> > -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kexi mailing list Kexi@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kexi
