Hi Jean and Anderw! Jean: I would be honored if you want to include parts (or all) of the tutorial in the guide. Please feel free to consider this a fact. Just let me finish the polish and some content that needs to be added or deleted. If you want, you can help with editing too. Kate and Mickey are invited to help with the editing if they are still interested. If they are, I will rush to post the current version in OOo Authors. I am sorry I have not done this yet but I have been very focused on research and writing.
The first part of the tutorial, which -you are right- seems rather theoretical and generic, is necessary to really harness the power of database application development and give regular people the chance to make a useful use of Base. It is not only part of the guide outline but also part of the tutorial outline I proposed when this project started and I think it is very useful. For what we are discussing with Drew, it seems that the remainder of the tutorial will be very Base-specific; but also very much of the middle level we had intended. You can give it a read when I have a decent draft, which will be soon. It seems that the tutorial will include developing functionalities by including Macros. This area is new to me but seems very, very interesting. Drew: It seems that several different projects are converging right now on the needs of the Base guide. I think that the library of functions that you described to me is more important than ever, and complements very well the tutorial. These two things, together, can be very useful for the Base guide. I went to read some of the links you left for me, specifically the Basic language guide. It seemed quite straightforward So I agree with you, we can make a section on Basic scripts and how to use them in Base forms. I did became aware of little problems like the fact that Basic date variables don't match Base date types. Anyway, I hope that you can point out the difficulties before I break my head trying to understand why things are not working when they should. Furthermore, you are going to have to show me step by step, so that I can replicate and translate it to educational form, how you connect the fields to the scripts to achieve the desired functionality. I propose that we work with the example in the tutorial once we agree to lock the design. In order to decide on how much scripting or regular Base GUI functionality we will use (and find the right balance as you said0, let me send you -in addition to the forms- a sample of the reports this tutorial will need. Then you tell me how much pain and tears they will create and we decided after that. By the way, given that we tend to talk in terms of "days" to coordinate, what time zone are you located in? I live in NY. Cheers, M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
