Le 16/04/12 10:09, Mark Stanton a écrit : Hi Mark,
> What was it you liked about Approach (I used that too)? > > I'm asking for feature ideas. > As a former Lotus Approach user, off the cuff : - multiple table query/update support - add/delete/modify/clone data button objects that worked (similar to Access and FileMaker Pro) ; - errm, I seem to recall that it had a good relationships manager ; - Lotus Smartscript (in other words a competent script recorder, script programming API) ? - BLOB/CLOB support - LO's is incomplete to say the least, and by default only lets you play with images - getting a binary stream to function (e.g. video, or music) into and out of a db is more or less mission impossible - the current best (only?) practice is to use VARCHAR for the file name, store the binary data independently and then use cURL from Basic in an attempt to read the binary stream and turn it into something useful - heaven forbid that you might wish to actually write something new into the stream... - reliable date type conversions !! (cf. the differences in Date types within LO as a whole, I believe there are/were 3 different types (Calc, Base and Basic !!) - oh and I forgot the Java date/time spec too ! - it just worked !! sorry, that was not a suggestion, but an opinion ;-) Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
