https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49145
--- Comment #9 from Alex Thurgood <ipla...@yahoo.co.uk> 2012-08-19 09:44:37 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > In fact I wasn't thinking of the form-wizard. I was thinking of the plain > grid-like table data editor: I was thinking of enhancing it to become an > intelligent grid, containing listboxes in some columns, plain text boxes in > other columns, ...and in the future perhaps also dropdown-calendar boxes for > date fields. Something like what is possible in MS Access or FMPro then ? In other words, having data aware controls in the table view or the grid control. I know that this has already been requested in the past (I would need to look up the bug number(s)), certainly at least for OOo, or on the previous OOo dba mailing lists, and I seem to recall that Lionel Mamane, the main base dev of the LO project had also considered that as one possible enhancement to the Base feature set. However, I would imagine that that would be no mean feat, as it would probably require extending the current model-view-control paradigm. I'm not utterly convinced that this would be confusing for users, since other db UI programs seem to do OK out of having such functionality, and it is hypocritical of us to say that we would be blurring the lines between data presentation/maniuplation via the form paradigm and simple data display via the table paradigm, when a user can actually enter data directly into the table anyway. If one were to be really strict about the separative approach, a user would just be able to create a table by hand or with the wizard, and then BE OBLIGED to create a form to enter data into it. At the moment, that simply isn't the case, and certainly doesn't represent what happens in other equivalent products. I would say that this is a valid RFE, but IMO it is a duplicate of one that is already somewhere in the system or at least has been discussed on the dev list (or IRC) previously. Alex -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
