Andreas Saeger wrote:
If people decided to go the VBA way, they have to bear the consequences.
Well, I'm not even sure what that means -
I wish there would be the old interfaces of version 1. You have a
database and a driver? Fine, so you already know what a database is,
create the required configuration entries and use the record sets in
Writer and Calc. You can even create input forms and macros if you like.
How silly to create an external configuration tree (a "Base document")
for this most frequently used puropose.
The old concept with some additional tools would have been far better
than a container format that needs to be worked-around most the time.
The Base container has only one advantage but too many disadvantages.
Before talking about possible advantages to a single container let me
ask you this - Exactly what is it that you can not do today that you
could do with version 1.x - In other words, you can treat an ODB file
as nothing more then a container for your driver configuration data and
then go about constructing your business application in exactly the same
way you did with 1.x can't you, or am I missing something?
Now before you answer that a follow up question- have you looked at the
example database awarded a community innovation prize yet? - And lest
anyone get the wrong idea, I have looked at it and there is some real
nice things in it - lots of good example code showing how to construct
pretty much exactly the type of application you describe and it runs
just fine with OO.o 2.x, 3.0. ( I just wish I had paid more attention
during German language classes back in 8th and 9th grades...it would
make following the code just a tad easier I think, but only a tad
actually. )
Drew
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