Hi Gert, > Frank, I don’t quite understand what you mean with the above response (what > has importing Word docs to do with column alignment? Importing Word docs has > been working for a long time).
You might not want to hear this :) The very original reason for thinking about a multi-column list box is MS interoperability: Microsoft Office documents potentially contain list and combo boxes with multiple columns, when importing those docs, the controls cannot properly be represented in OOo. This does not depend at all on database access - it's purely about form controls in Microsoft documents. One might like or dislike the fact (I dislike it), but the need to properly import an MS document ranks higher than the need to have some more sophisticated controls in database forms. That is, addressing the former is more important. (Remember that one of the great goals of OOo 2.0 was "Microsoft Interoperability"? Chances are good that this won't change for any post-2.0 version.) Thus, the motivation to write those spec came from "MS Interop", not from "Database form controls". Thus, while still addressing the latter, the main focus of the document is on the former. > However, unless one is conversant with VB, scripting, macros and all that, > there is no way that you can develop simple, but yet reasonably powerful > application like you can in Access. That is undoubted (at least by me :). 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]
