Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread kainz.a
I use only real databases in enterprise and connect them via a webserver to writer cause my main documents are writer files and some basic parameters comes from the databases. The good thing is that I can separate the database stuff from the user stuff. So the user can write the documents, make

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Franklin Weng
On February 11, 2019 7:44:49 AM GMT+08:00, Pedro Rosmaninho wrote: >How do the macros in LO work? I thought they were Basic macros? What's >the >difference for the VBA macros of excel? > StarBasic, not Visual basic. Excel VBA cannot directly convert to StarBasic so they need to be rewritten

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Gerhard Weydt
Hi Italo, What do you mean when saying Base "is missing the scripting feature"? Surely you can use macros in Base, as well as in other components of LibreOffice. These macros can be written in Baisc, which I have often used, or in some other languages, which I haven't tried myself. And

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Pedro Rosmaninho
How do the macros in LO work? I thought they were Basic macros? What's the difference for the VBA macros of excel? On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 10:41 PM Franklin Weng wrote: > On February 11, 2019 2:08:58 AM GMT+08:00, Italo Vignoli < > it...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > >I cannot disagree more.

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Franklin Weng
On February 11, 2019 2:08:58 AM GMT+08:00, Italo Vignoli wrote: >I cannot disagree more. In Italy, most enterprises and every public >administration are using Microsoft Access, and this represents a >problem >when they have to migrate to LibreOffice (as Base is not seen as a good >replacement

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Italo Vignoli
I cannot disagree more. In Italy, most enterprises and every public administration are using Microsoft Access, and this represents a problem when they have to migrate to LibreOffice (as Base is not seen as a good replacement for Microsoft Access, because is missing the scripting feature). On

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Pedro Rosmaninho
Just to mention that Microsoft Access (the equivalent to Base) is barely used in the professional world. Usually companies use Excel and connect it to MySQL or apps like PowerBI depending on the purpose. On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 9:40 AM Heiko Tietze wrote: > While the idea of the Notebookbar is

Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

2019-02-10 Thread Heiko Tietze
While the idea of the Notebookbar is exactly this, to provide completely different UIs, I doubt we can make Base "a variant of Calc“. But you are very welcome to draft the idea or implement yourself (should be possible for everyone who uses mailing lists). > Am 07.02.2019 um 21:26 schrieb