[GRLUG] OpenOffice.org as Access replacement

[Michael Mol]

Let us know how it works out; I rather like the concepts given by GUI 
database design tools, and would have loved to use Base for simple 
thing, but I haven't been motivated to spend time on seeing if it had 
gotten any better. It sounds like you're doing some interesting things 
with it, and I'd love to know if it's up to the task, now.

On 1/15/2010 3:44 PM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> Well I started hacking with OO.org base and I have had no crashes as
> of yet.  Base uses hsqldb which I believe is comparable to sqlite.  I
> decided to try Base out because my work uses a lot of spreadsheets
> that I would love to connect to our database(AS400) and automate a lot
> of stuff.
>
> Right now my app has a database back end designed using Base.  I have
> a few Basic functions that query that db and work with that data, and
> a dialog that does nothing but pop up a message box saying "HI".
>
> I'm pretty happy so far, but the documentation is pretty lacking.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  I hadn't heard of most of them.  Now
> that I am starting to get back into the programming groove, I have a
> lot more ideas that I'd like to flesh out.
>
> RoR  and python is something that I have tried in the past, but this
> was a time when my programming mojo was on the decline and I wasn't
> motivated to work on it.  Looks like python in particular has a lot of
> projects using it now, as evidenced by the ones you all have brought
> to light as well as OO.org using it as a scripting engine.  It seems
> that knowing it would be very useful.
>
>
> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
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