Nils M. Nielsen wrote: > Tank you too! > > A moment ago I tried, and in fact I got a report based on all records > in the table - looking away from it was not much sense in it. When I > get to the point filling the report with text and numbers I may get > what I want. I speculated about the query, using it for producing a > report. It is a bit of time (some years) since I used sql, but since > my report is only a "picture" of the records in the table I could not > see how to use sql for the report. You gave me the right answer. (When > I have got a meaningful report, next step is to convert the .ps file > to something useful for my printer, possibly ps2pdf). > > I was in fact looking at the /var/lib/mysql directory, presented as > empty by Dolphin. Sorry, I didn't see that Dolphin was not able to > open the directory. So my table(s) may be inside there. Why mysqldump > did give me an empty .sql file (as presented in Dolphin) is not clear > to me yet, but I may find a reason ... > > Thank you for the tip on using Nssbackup instead of mysqldump and > copying hk-classes myself! I will install it as soon as possible to > get my database moved to my laptop in an easy way. > > And again to you helpful people: Thank you for your efforts to educate > me! When I get some more experience, may be Knoda is not so bad for > making reports :-) . > > Nils M. Nielsen > > > > > Robert Leleu skrev: >> As a complement to R Wood response >> >> Have a report based on a table, activate it (the blue gear) and you >> get the populated report >> Have a report based on a query ....... >> >> I use mysql on my machine: the base data ara stored according to >> mysql custom in /var/lib/mysql >> In ~/.hk_classes are the files describing Knoda objects. >> >> So I gave these paths to my Nssbackup >> >> >> Je la 19/03/2010 13:16-------- Origina mesag^o-------- Nils M. >> Nielsen skribis (esperanto estas la unua internacia lingvo): >>> Thank you, Robert Wood, for your helpful advice. Now I may be able >>> to get something on my report, though I feel there are a lot of >>> questions left to figure out. I tried this ... button after >>> point-and-click in the data section. Something went wrong, I got no >>> field box in there, but in the section before. Well, at least I got >>> a picture of what it looked like, so I could select the box in the >>> menu line and put it in, so select the table column and get the box >>> filled into the data section layout. (Possibly I should have stayed >>> with Free Pascall and Lazarus - but there I got problems with a >>> broken installation on Kubuntu.). May be I have to install the >>> source and have a look at it to see what is going on behind the >>> scenes. There was no problem at all to design the input form I >>> needed, with (read only) images and all, for that part everything >>> felt natural and the tutorial was understandable, but the report >>> handling part does not match the forms part. >>> >>> Also, I have not figured out yet how to get the report processing >>> all my records without some form of programming/scripting. I have no >>> experience from using this type of software. Though Knoda is a >>> clever bit of software, it seems not to be designed for the end user >>> needing a way of presenting av report from her/his data in a >>> reasonable easy way. >>> >>> Another problem is that Knoda has no backup facility. I resorted to >>> mysqldump, and got an empty .sql file. As usual: dirt in dirt out, >>> no error message. Knoda had placed my database etc. in directory >>> hk-classes under my home directory. So to move the database to >>> another PC I hopefully get everything I need by copying the >>> hk-classes directory with subdirectories on to an usb stick to >>> install on the other PC. That should not be the way of doing it I >>> think. >>> >>> Nils M. Nielsen >>> >>> >>> Robert Wood skrev: >>>> >> My befuddled memory indicates that %VALUE% is the contents of the >>>> query/table box that you have selected. << >>>> >>>> That would make sense, yes. >>>> >>>> >> My very clear memories of the handbook is that it is annoyingly >>>> complete and comprehensive. On the odd occasion that I queried it >>>> with Hans Knoda it was all due to my dyslexia. After being >>>> admonished more than once I began to realise how complete it is and >>>> how it says so much with so few words. << >>>> >>>> I think that indicates it was written by an engineer for people who >>>> are similar minded! This is not always the best style for newbs and >>>> less experienced software people. :~) >>>> >>>> >> Like most other people on this list I am looking for an alternative >>>> programme. I like the ability to add pictures to your forms and the >>>> whole concept of generating forms on a clean sheet of paper without >>>> any >>>> 'factory made' boxes. >>>> Whilst Access may be functional it is inhuman, Open Office Base needs >>>> code before it will do all of the tricks that Knoda will do. << >>>> >>>> I tried kexi as well as OO Base and found them poor compared to >>>> knoda which was *relatively* easy to pick up. (OO Base is abysmal.) >>>> I wouldn't use anything Microsoft wrote even if you paid me. ;~) >>>> >>>> I am lead to believe kexi has really improved. the last time I >>>> looked, there was nothing in my KDE4 repository, and it was still >>>> very much in beta which is why I knocked up my own system. It's a >>>> lot easier to do a custom one than a generic version it would seem! >>>> >>>> BTW, I wrote: >>>> >>>> "Right click on the section and then on the ... button to the right >>>> of the datasources combo." >>>> >>>> I did, of course, mean left click. 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