Hi,
Further to the
update on issue 13257 I thought I would read the spec (http://dba.openoffice.org/specifications/index.html#forms)
and offer some feedback from my first
impressions.
- [Off
topic] Interestingly when I download the
document using Windows XP Pro SP2 the odt file becomes a zip file. I'm not
certain if this is only on my machine, but I thought I would let the
list know. Files of type sxw open/save fine. A simple rename fixes the
issue. Currently I have installed OOo1.1.4 and
OOo1.9.104.
The following more
importantly relates to the spec.
- It is good to see
progress is happening on the multi column list and combo boxes front. Thanks.
This is one of the things I can't live without in MS Access.
- Column heads
It is
not explicitly stated in the spec what happens when the List Content
is Table, Query, SQL, or SQL (native), what is the effect of Column heads
value. I expect if Column heads is True the field names will appear in the
heading row. Is this correct?
- 3.4 Notes
From my point of view as an MS Access developer I
too find the width property one of those things that does not appear logical. If
you define columns the width you want, why then give a total width. Having said
this I have used the width property on a number of occasions. Thus it is
used.
Setting the total width property less than
the total of the columns allows the horizontal scroll to come into play and that
may be handy sometimes.
Setting the width property greater
than the total columns if I recall correctly makes the last column appear wider
than the specified column width. This may be useful for aesthetic
reasons.
- Something I can't do in MS Access that may be
useful.
The ability to wrap the contents of a column so
that rows are not just a single line height in
list and combo boxes.
Example.
A client has jobs. Each job has a number and
a description. The description can be quite long.
(By the way the description did start off
as a short description, and whilst I did resist, eventually the client ended up
getting the long description they wanted.)
When this is set up as a combo box the column for a
job number is easily determined. The amount of text to display for the
description however is more difficult. If I had the option which would allow the
description column in a combo box to wrap becoming a multi-line value that would
have been good.
This is probably outside the scope, but I thought I
would feed the idea back.
- Will Basic Dialogs
also have the same capability
I think the answer
at this point in time will be no, but I thought I would point out that some of
this functionality could be useful in the Basic Dialogs are as
well.
Hope the feedback is of use.
Regards,
Kelvin Eldridge
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