John Kaufmann wrote:
Trying to open a Base file (that was apparently corrupted in saving), OO
opens instead a "Filter Selection" pane, which implictly invites one to
pick a filter that handles that file type. This causes two problems:
To those two problems, there are corresponding questions:
Hi John,
(1) In searching the archive on this question, I find lots of complaints
about this unsorted list, but apparently no action yet on those
complaints. Can someone help me find where that list is maintained, to
see what might be involved in making it an ordered list?
No idea.
(2) How does one go about getting/making a filter for a Base file?
I doubt this is the case but just to be sure.
With the 3.0 release of OO.o the format of Base files changed so as to
conform to the ODF 1.2 Database Front-end file specification.
OO.o 2.4.1 can read, but not save as, this new file format. If you try
to open a Base file created, or saved, with 3.0 or newer using a version
of OO.o older then 2.4.1 you will get that filter dialog as it simply
doesn't (and couldn't) recognize the newer format.
- Anyway -
You can find, what I think is, the current specification of the file
format at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31679/OpenDocument-v1.2-committeeDraft-01.pdf
The Database Front-End document spec. is covered in Chapter 11.
As for writing your own filter, all I can offer is a link to this page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_filters_using_the_XML_based_file_format
(and when/if you read that you will know as much about actually writing
a filter as I do...meaning I haven't done it)
Question - If you try to open the file with an archive tool does that work?
Drew
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