Hi Uwe, > Is there any possibilities to improve the interface for queries, > I just have in mind very simple commands like adding and > multiplying columns. While in scal there is a interface which > helps me to do this in the query I had more or less to do trial > and error to find out field1+field2 works, any kind of interface, > in the line of the scal interface, would be very helpful. But is > this difficult to implement?
It would definately be possible (and in fact a Nice To Have (TM) thing). "Difficult" depends on how much we would want to achieve with this. The main problem here would be that OOo can work with arbitrary databases, and different databases have different capabilities. This means the query design user interface has to adjust itself to the capabilities of the underlying database, and this might be the difficult part. (Technically, OOo uses an abstract API to communicate with databases, and there's only rather rudimentary support to ask a given - unknown - database which expressions it supports.) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
