Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Hi Barbara,
since I was a professional programmer for 30 years,
working in depth with *lots* of different types of data stores/
databases -- and this interface definitely threw me. I've learned to
live with it, but I think there are real improvements possible.
Great! You are going to design *and* to implement it :)
Seriously: Didn't know you have this kind of background - did you ever
think about getting the OOo build environment to fly, and start with
some small innocent bug fixes? The one you mentioned in one of your last
mails (selecting the upper-left corner in the table data view and the
COPYing just copies a single cell) would be a) easy to fix and b) fit to
your interests, it seems.
Wanna give it a try?
Ciao
Frank
Ouch! Me and my big mouth, and my obligation to put my "money" where my
mouth is! The languages that I worked in were mainframe-based, as you
can probably guess from the timeframe (S/360 Assembler, anyone?), and
didn't include Java or any of the C variants (though I have an in-house
expert in C/C++ in my son). Those are the implementation languages for
OOo, right?
I'll admit, the idea does intrigue me, though I don't know just what I'd
be getting into or how much time it would take. I'm certainly used to
learning new languages quickly, of course, since I worked in IBM's
Federal Systems Division and we had to code in whatever the government
had bought! But assuming I'm willing to bite the bullet, how would I get
started? From the other stuff we've been talking about around this
issue, I'll need to get into wiki authoring first, but maybe after that
I could give it a try.
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