[libreoffice-users] Re: Steam Distribution Inquiry

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 19:27, Mark Richardson a écrit : Hi Mark, > Hello, > > We would like to discuss distributing LibreOffice through our worldwide > digital platform, Steam. We are a leader in video game distribution and > service. We are launching an application store in October and would like to

[libreoffice-users] Steam Distribution Inquiry

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Richardson
Hello, We would like to discuss distributing LibreOffice through our worldwide digital platform, Steam. We are a leader in video game distribution and service. We are launching an application store in October and would like to include LibreOffice. You can find us at Steampowered.com. We are

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ldap Setup

2011-06-23 Thread Geo
Jay Are you trying to query the database or do just need to access it? What is the difference between a query and access? Do I not need to query the ldap server to access it? I was just hoping to use it for address access. If you are just trying to access it you might try using Remmina Remote Des

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Linux synonem and language tool

2011-06-23 Thread lee
Stephan Zietsman writes: > lee wrote: >> Stephan Zietsman writes: >>> I believe it should be Modify -> Restore Default Command >> >> Cool, that works, thanks :) Perhaps this option needs to be renamed to >> "Restore Default Icon"? > > I believe that "Restore Default Command" restores both the ico

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ken Springer
HI, Steve, On 6/23/11 12:16 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi ken Doesn't the threaded view of emails in Thunderbird achieve the same as subscribing to gmane. I have all incoming email related to LO filtered into a folder and if it switches to threaded view it looks just the same as the view in gm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Updates on LibreOffice 3.4 Windows

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Upgrades (new releases) happen so fast and frequently that minor updates don't really happen much yet. I suspect you were looking for the stable branch with a years worth of support rather than the development branch with ultra-latest new features that might not be completely stable on a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Updates on LibreOffice 3.4 Windows

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The 2010 ribbon is far better than the 2007 one but sadly the answer still seems to be no. There are some interesting plans for a far better UI to leap-frog over the ribbon and leave it looking old and tired. Last time i asked about the ribbon people seemed to say it was more likely as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-23 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
As a suggestion on netbooks as default display. Have icons roll out to right, instead of full text and down. When doing a roll-over on icon, blip menu text for that icon. This way menus can be set by default according to screen automatically to give most understandable result. On 6/23/201

[libreoffice-users] Updates on LibreOffice 3.4 Windows

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Jones
Hi, I have just installed LibreOffice3.4 on Windows 7 64Bit. Could you let me know how to enable auto update notification? I have checked the pages: http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Online_Update http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Check_for_Updates_1 I can not seem to get to: You can dis

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi ken On 24/06/11 4:07 AM, Ken Springer wrote: On 6/23/11 9:22 AM, John B wrote: Hi, John, Hi Alex One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have brilliant email filters built in to them. So very quickly afterwards, I created a folder just for [libreoffice-users

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ken Springer
On 6/23/11 11:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think the Documentation group would love help updating the info about Gmane and other things. Screenshots definitely help. If you have time. I think it might be the website group that actually revise that particular page at the moment but these t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the Documentation group would love help updating the info about Gmane and other things. Screenshots definitely help. If you have time. I think it might be the website group that actually revise that particular page at the moment but these things might move around later. Regards

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ken Springer
On 6/23/11 8:15 AM, Ernest Kurtz wrote: Thank you, Marc. Might you -- or anyone -- have any thoughts/experience with NeoOffice and LO? I use LO exclusively these days, although I did have NeoOffice and OOo installed at one time. I no longer want to be "playing" between different office sui

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ken Springer
On 6/23/11 9:22 AM, John B wrote: Hi, John, Hi Alex One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have brilliant email filters built in to them. So very quickly afterwards, I created a folder just for [libreoffice-users] and I filter into that folder any email with t

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Hi all, On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:22 +0100, John B wrote: > Hi Alex > > One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have > brilliant email filters built in to them. > > When I signed up to [libreoffice-users], I had no idea the of the good > quality & especially the quan

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Nino, On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:09 +0100, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2011-06-20, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] wrote: > > > >> Just make the list larger, as screen space permits. > >> > > Lee, I agree with the commenter here. > > > > I think it is also a bug wh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-20, Andrew Foss wrote: > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> >> From: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] >>> >>> nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: >>> On 2011-06-19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I see the "Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt)" now. When I checked the File | >

[libreoffice-users] Re: list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 22.06.2011 09:59, Tom Cloyd wrote: My list box disaster just don't quit. To this point, I've learned that the only quick, simple way to get a list box onto a form is to use the list box wizard. Last night it worked. Tonight it worked. Then, it stopped. I now have a form with 5 list boxes. Th

[libreoffice-users][windows] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread John B
Hi Alex One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have brilliant email filters built in to them. When I signed up to [libreoffice-users], I had no idea the of the good quality & especially the quantity of emails I would receive. So very quickly afterwards, I create

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

2011-06-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-20, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] wrote: > >> Just make the list larger, as screen space permits. >> > Lee, I agree with the commenter here. > > I think it is also a bug when the Open dialog has a pull-down list > that extends beyond the edge of the scre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Grober
EK - I've used OOo X11 on Mac, neooffice, OOo aqua and LO. As mentioned below, I do not try to use them on same login as too much trouble. I am still a little leery of OOo v LO, especially since apache announcement - I use LO but have kept OOo on clients machines. There are issues with special

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 16:00, Ernest Kurtz a écrit : > Thank you, Alex. Is there any possibility of having an LO Mac list? This > list is deluging my mailbox with queries foreign to my needs and experience. > Well it is not within my power to create one, and even if it were, I would have my reservations

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 16:13, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, > A forum would help. People could subscribe to specific threads or just visit > the forum and have a look around to see if there are topics of interest. The > mailing list idea is mad and archaic but sadly, people have strongly objected > to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ernest Kurtz
Thank you, Marc. Might you -- or anyone -- have any thoughts/experience with NeoOffice and LO? ek On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Marc Grober wrote: > You can create two different users to use each of the different apps - only > way to accomplish this in my opinion unless you go through all optio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A forum would help. People could subscribe to specific threads or just visit the forum and have a look around to see if there are topics of interest. The mailing list idea is mad and archaic but sadly, people have strongly objected to a more modern approach such as setting up a nice for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Ernest Kurtz
Thank you, Alex. Is there any possibility of having an LO Mac list? This list is deluging my mailbox with queries foreign to my needs and experience. ernie kurtz On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > Le 21/06/11 20:56, Ernest Kurtz a écrit : > > Hi Ernest, > >> If there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) They have almost all libraries in common, sometimes there are slightly different names to some of the libraries. Variables, calls, stack-pointers (?) (please no Latin quotes!) almost everything is the same and likely to cause conflicts. All kinds of stuff that is way beyond the unders

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Milos Sramek
Dňa 23.06.2011 12:51, Tom Davies wrote / napísal(a): > > > > > > From: Alexander Thurgood > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 10:34:23 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people > > Le 21/06/11 20:56, Ernest Kurtz a écrit : > > Hi Erne

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
From: Alexander Thurgood To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 10:34:23 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people Le 21/06/11 20:56, Ernest Kurtz a écrit : Hi Ernest, > If there are any primarily Mac users on this list, please contact

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Grober
You can create two different users to use each of the different apps - only way to accomplish this in my opinion unless you go through all options and create two different locations for app user profiles, as that is what is causing the crashes I believe (I.e, they are reading same user data)

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread John B
Dear Tom Base reminds me of a great strategy game I used to play (well still do occasionally! ) called MUST, where you click on every thing, but, unless you click in a particular sequence nothing happens. However, when you know the sequence its "so simple, so obvious" - that's Base I assume

Re: [libreoffice-users] success: form with detail subform; working list boxes in main form

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We do need both docs and devs working on this. But i think driving the documentation forwards might help devs understand how Base works when it isn't being temperamental. That might help them stabilise it in a sensible direction. In rock-groups people often think the lead singer is t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 06/23/2011 03:01 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 23/06/11 10:48, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, Thanks for your involvement. Do see my recent success about success with this effort. I will post in a second with a link to the database that works, it that would be of any use. I am, nevertheless

Re: [libreoffice-users] success: form with detail subform; working list boxes in main form

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
Hi Tom, I sure prefer top-posting, for what it's worth. Will chase the bug report tomorrow, OK? I didn't know it was a bug, but it is if you say so, and I'm glad to hear it. I absolutely think list boxes should work from queries. Right now I need better to separate out what causes the problem

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/06/11 20:56, Ernest Kurtz a écrit : Hi Ernest, > If there are any primarily Mac users on this list, please contact me > off-list? > > My interest is almost exclusively in Writer, and because I work on several > projects at the same time, I like to have available and open several > dif

[libreoffice-users] Re: Tutorial for Base Design Forms

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 12:19, John B a écrit : Hi John, > I am hopeless. I tried the wizard in 3.3.3, sure enough the fields were > added but displayed as a spreadsheet (as is data) instead of a > re-designable format for just one record, AND the design /edit button is > greyed out (as are most of the other

Re: [libreoffice-users] success: form with detail subform; working list boxes in main form

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's a good idea to post a bug-report about list-boxes only working from tables. They really need to work from Queries too http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I don't think there are any devs currently working on Base but there will be. There is a chance of documentatio

Re: [libreoffice-users][windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
In response to Alexander's request that problems be better delineated: On 06/22/2011 06:29 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: Yes indeed. But then I started over, so I could have a subform. At that point, using the form wizard was the only way I could see to get one. Still is, dammit. #1: No way to add subfo

[libreoffice-users] Re: Error saving LibreOffice Documents under MacOSX 10.7

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/06/11 23:52, planas a écrit : Hi all, Known bug, now reported by two different users : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38290 Unfortunately, as far as I know, none of the Mac developers or QA testers has access to the Lion Developer Preview, so the problem can not be pinned d

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 10:48, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > Thanks for your involvement. Do see my recent success about success with > this effort. I will post in a second with a link to the database that > works, it that would be of any use. I am, nevertheless, very interested > in any thing your learn, gi

Re: [libreoffice-users] success: form with detail subform; working list boxes in main form

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
Update: for those who wish to examine it, the database discussed below may be downloaded here . On 06/23/2011 02:36 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: This is very early in my learning period, but I seem to have achieved a small breakthrough. It now ap

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
Thanks for your involvement. Do see my recent success about success with this effort. I will post in a second with a link to the database that works, it that would be of any use. I am, nevertheless, very interested in any thing your learn, given what I had to do to get things working (abandon u

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 02:29, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Guys, Could you separate out the individual problems into separate threads please, so that it makes it easier for everyone to follow ? It also makes it easier to try and reproduce a given behaviour, so that I, or someone else, can file a bug report. I'm wor

[libreoffice-users] success: form with detail subform; working list boxes in main form

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Cloyd
This is very early in my learning period, but I seem to have achieved a small breakthrough. It now appears that if list boxes are to work reliably, or at all, in a form with a subform, they must be created using raw tables - i.e. view or queries cannot be used. Likewise for the main form and t

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 10:23, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > Now open it. What I keep getting is a single record, with the autovalue > NOT created, and the default value in the second field. Hitting Enter, > one would think, would cause the key to instantiate, and the record > marker to move to the next reco

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 02:32, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > In theory. But as I said, it's not actually getting created, as that > required that you move off the end of the form by pressing enter, at > which point the record marker should move to the next record. But that > isn't happening. What wrote in m