I am not sure this is the proper forum for this question, but since
there doesn't seem to be another appropriate route to the developers,
here goes.
I am running Linux OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 and despite previous failures, I
finally got Base talking to my MySQL 5.0.24a server. That part works
fine. I have been using Rekall 2.4.5 for a few years but its development
seems to be stagnating and so I have been looking at OpenOffice.org Base
as an alternate or replacement database client. As a test, I have been
recreating one of my forms for data entry in Base and discovered that
Base has many of the features that I like.
Now I have run into a "work-stopper" problem that may just prevent me
from using Base. This problem is the lack of multiple columns displayed
in a List Box in a form. I have spent a lot of time researching this
problem and I have come to the conclusion that this feature is still
missing in Base. In my research, I found a draft document on
OpenOffice's website dated 2005-06-01 written by a Frank Schonheit,
Document ID: SPEC.DBA.MCLIST (
http://dba.openoffice.org/specifications/forms/multi_column_list_controls.odt
), that addresses this feature deficiency.
My question to the developers is: when is this feature is to be
implemented in Base?
I am sure I am not the only user who has a need for this feature. Any
information on this will be appreciated.
BTW: Rekall does implement this feature, although it is not well
documented and Rekall does not allow adjusting the column widths.
However, the data is visible to aid selection from the list.
Girvin Herr
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