I tend to agree. It pains me to say it but Base is not even close.
On 01/22/2016 04:48 PM, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi Ken
If you speak to the LibreOffice people I'd be very interested in
future plans for Base. It seems to have received a lot less attention
over the years than Writer or Calc. This is, of course, understandable
but, whereas for plenty of users Writer and Calc are a worthy
alternative to MS Word and Excel, Base is nowhere near an alternative
to Access.
If Base were to adopt an existing free file-based database as its
backend, such as Sqlite, the LibreOffice developers could concentrate
on building a decent form designer to link to it, and adapt their
already excellent visual query builder appropriately.
It strikes me that few people would want to deal with the complexities
of programming with LibreOffice Basic to build antiquated-looking
forms to talk to a highly inefficient HSQL database that almost nobody
else uses. It's hard to believe that anybody running Windows would
abandon Access in favour of Base, so what is the point of it in its
present form?
Regards
Nige
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