Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

2011-07-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Tom Davies wrote: My understanding of hard-links is sketchy but i think they don't create copies of files http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-unixlinux-symbolic-soft-and-hard-links.html Hard links use another node for the same file; that's equivalent to making

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Heinz, I completely agree. LO without a function Base won't fly. Either TDF recognizes this - by DOING something - or we have our answer. Tom On 07/28/2011 05:08 AM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hallo Andreas, In my view, BASE falling apart would mean LO's death sentence in the long run!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Doubt about digital signature

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you have any personal info stored in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - UserData I seem to remember some weird bug about this sort of thing not working unless there was some personal data in there? Even if it's fictitious or so generic that it doesn't get traced back you you as an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Don, Seems like a reasonable request to me, and I'll up the ante. Where the ^%$ is the management - The Document Foundation - in all this, right now, today? Do they even watch this list? In short, do they give a damn that the only theoretically viable alternative to Access (for ordinary

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I agree too but i think we have to agitate to get something done. So far the only response i got was an unhelpful RMS quote. I have a Gandhi one First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.. Which means we have all 4 steps to work through but since

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Has anybody suggested that this command should an option when saving when ever records are deleted? On 7/27/2011 12:14 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: SHUTDOWN COMPACT -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, Different ones of us have tried this. It is a Java issue. I keep my database compacted on a regular basis. Thank you for trying to be of assistance. Don On 07/28/2011 12:45 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Has anybody suggested that this command should an option when saving when ever

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Andy Brown
Tom Cloyd wrote: much clipped to save space 2. If LO's in trouble with the current sun-Java, so's OO. Where's Apache in this situation? Again, where's *TDF*? Why aren't they and Apache working together on this? Looks rather like a leadership problem, to me. Tom, the other points I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi, Le 28/07/2011 18:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : In my view LO/OO do NOT require Java, neither on Linux nor on Windows. AFAIK, LO/OOo currently *DO* require Java for Base to simply work. TDF have announced they would get rid of the java-isms in the code. This implies a major rewrite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, Thank you for your great ideas and suggestions. Starting with Java 1.6.0_24, this problem arose with both OpenOffice Base and LibreOffice Base. The problems were documented on an OpenOffice forum that I searched when the problem first arose. Another alternative would be for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
I'm up for it! (Love that quote!) Maybe leaking this issue to the press would get some attention?? Tom C. On 07/28/2011 10:29 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I agree too but i think we have to agitate to get something done. So far the only response i got was an unhelpful RMS quote. I have a

[libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Gradwohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a spreadsheet containing 39 sheets, of which 21 are duplicates of one another. They represent tables in a restaurant. On an average laptop or desktop, everything is fine. When I load this up on a netbook with lousy resolution (1024x600), every

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's more a case of working on several fronts within TDF. 1. joining the Steering-Discuss mailing list and promoting the cause there. 2. working out a few large organisations that could put resources towards it. What would they gain? Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) and RedHat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Cloyd
Once again I find myself agreeing with you, on all fronts. I'm also keenly aware that I'm maxed out right now and must first get my db running (via java regression) then get some work done. Hours I don't have have been lost this morning trying to decide what to do about all this, and I must

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Apache are far behind TDF in this. They are about where TDF was about 11 months ago; with no infrastructure and bloated code filled with nonsense entangling the useful stuff. TDF is not traditional hierarchical organisation where they run things and we wait for them to do stuff.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be a good idea to post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I think the guide helps you look-up to see if there is already a bug-report about it but if you don't have time for that just post the reoprt and worry about it later. Triagers can mark bugs as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Doubt about digital signature

2011-07-28 Thread Grasiela Peccini
Hi Alex, Tom I'm using Windows XP and the user information is correctly stored... Regards, Grasip. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Do you have any personal info stored in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - UserData I seem to remember some weird

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Heinrich, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:15 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hi Tom, Just my - maybe naive - 2 pennies worth of comments: As I mentioned before, I have been using OO/LO for years together with BASE with MySQL (which - also sigh) now belongs to Oracle as well. As a connector to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Shrinking buttons

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Biil On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 10:57 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a spreadsheet containing 39 sheets, of which 21 are duplicates of one another. They represent tables in a restaurant. On an average laptop or desktop, everything is fine.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Tom, Tom Cloyd wrote (28-07-11 18:06) I completely agree. LO without a function Base won't fly. Either TDF recognizes this - by DOING something - or we have our answer. Well, the challenges with base are known. This does not mean that there is an instant solution. However the fast

[libreoffice-users] Calc row filter extraction

2011-07-28 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, I have a 'data' spreadsheet sheet for my family medical aid on LO 3.3.1 with multiple columns and different information in each column. Please see the text example I include below. What I would ideally like to do is have rows on sheet A, where Column D is the same, linked onto another

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: (help macro base)Open form with a button form another form with filter

2011-07-28 Thread rogerio dandrea
Hi Sorry if this is a silly question but, how do I switch the focus from one form to another? Thanks 2011/7/28 Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Le 28/07/11 15:40, rogerio dandrea a écrit : Hi Rogerio, ThisDatabaseDocument.FormDocuments.getByName( animal3 ).open

[libreoffice-users] Re: Connect ODBC / JDBC Firebird database - LibreOffice 3.3.3 - Windows XP

2011-07-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/07/11 20:31, Giovanni Romero Pérez a écrit : Ciao Giovanni, Thank you very much. I did what you said and all is OK. Glad I could be of some help. Since the Firebird server is on Windows, the string to connect is: firebirdsql:servername/3050:C:\\FOLDER\\DATABASE.FDB Ah, OK,

[libreoffice-users] Can't set each level of a bullet list style

2011-07-28 Thread stranger barbecue
In Libreoffice Writer, I am trying to make a document with bullets, but not continuously. So I have some bullets, then some paragraphs or other text, then more bullets. But I realized that whenever I turned bullets back on, it was resetting the bullet style to the default. It became a hassle to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc row filter extraction

2011-07-28 Thread planas
Hi Hylton, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 21:50 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi all, I have a 'data' spreadsheet sheet for my family medical aid on LO 3.3.1 with multiple columns and different information in each column. Please see the text example I include below. What I would

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 28.07.2011 19:05, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi, Le 28/07/2011 18:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : In my view LO/OO do NOT require Java, neither on Linux nor on Windows. AFAIK, LO/OOo currently *DO* require Java for Base to simply work. TDF have announced they would get rid of the

[libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-07-28 Thread Juan Carlos
I have the same problem with L.O Writer 3.4.1 in Ubuntu 10.10. L.O. uses java 1.6.0_26. Also I downloaded the deb packages from the web page (not from PPA) Is there any news about this problem? Another question, where is located the log file with the error reported by L.O.? -- View this message

[libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

2011-07-28 Thread NoOp
On 07/27/2011 06:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote: I only referred to that as it shows making a ~/.fonts folder etc. Please create and put the BakerSignet font in there see if LO picks it up. Not really, as I don't know what the astrisk is in '1152a___.*' - I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-28 Thread NoOp
On 07/28/2011 12:50 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 28.07.2011 19:05, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi, Le 28/07/2011 18:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : In my view LO/OO do NOT require Java, neither on Linux nor on Windows. AFAIK, LO/OOo currently *DO* require Java for Base to simply work.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QUESTION: Libreoffice documents constantly need recovery

2011-07-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi Juan, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Juan Carlos juanzeppe...@hotmail.com wrote: I have the same problem with L.O Writer 3.4.1 in Ubuntu 10.10. L.O. uses java 1.6.0_26. Also I downloaded the deb packages from the web page (not from PPA) Is there any news about this problem? It's not