Hi Frank, On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:45 +0200, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Fernand, > > > For months i am looking for the best solutions to manipulating data in > > Dialogs instead of forms. > > Just this morning, sitting in the subway and having no newspaper to read > :), I wondered whether it would make sense to implement the runtime code > for all the database controls in dialogs. Adding a full-blown dedicated > UI for creating "database dialogs" would be an additional effort, but > perhaps it would be valueable having only the "runtime", i.e. the > ability to programmatically create and execute such dialogs. As a first > step, at least. This sounds a little familiar to something we discussed on this list in the past ( it wasn't exactly the same thing, but if you remember we talked about using form control models ( especially data aware ones ) with the toolkit controls in dialogs ) as such, I think supporting database controls is a great idea :-) Btw I use currently use the form control models with the toolkit controls ( and it seems to work well ) in ooo-build, the (self imposed) limitation is that this is only available 'transiently' when importing MSO 'Userform' controls. Not sure if any of the work I have done is that useful in this case but I'd happily attach it/upload [*] etc. somewhere should you want it or think it's useful. In anycase I am interested in upstreaming this code anyway but I was thinking about doing that in the context of a future vba support CWS. However, as I said at the moment it really isn't suitable to be used with Openoffice directly ( lack of ui/persistence support for one ) and I haven't had the time to concentrate on that part of it :-/ It sounds though that any work in this area would be relevant to ( and affect ) a 'proper' solution for what I would like to do, so I am very interested
Noel [*] currently I don't recall exactly what I have in terms of changes but iirc it's just a cheap and nasty solution to use the appropriate (form) models when the dialog is in vba mode --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
