[GRLUG] OpenOffice.org as Access replacement

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 15:49 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.

Ditto!

> 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".

So you've written StarBasic code?  I'd really like to see that, or see a
demo.

> > I'm pretty happy so far, but the documentation is pretty lacking.

That has scared me off in the past; in general OOo documentation is
terrible.

> > 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.