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OpenOffice.org 2.2 releasedOpenOffice.org 2.2 releasedPosted Mar 30, 2007 22:55 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by drag Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
WHAT? You made the OO.org Database WORK?
I happily use OO.org for a lot of stuff, but I've had nothing but trouble with the database part, couldn't change order of rows, it crashed if I looked at it the wrong way, and opening forms was asking for a lockup (Not that I used them for anything, just wanted to experiment at bit)...
Oh well, I wanted to use it for designing a MySQL database, so I used the MySQL backend, maybe it really was the binding that harikiri'ed, not the OO.org database itself... Gonna take a look at it again, now that I know it can actually be a successful venture, thx! :D
Dennis
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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released Posted Mar 31, 2007 2:49 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Ya..
The OO.org 1.x base stuff was complete shit. I tried to get that to work after a Access class I took to see how it compared. I struggled for a couple days with the unix-odbc connectors and different versions of this or that and when I finally when I got it to work.. it didn't work that well.
Utter shit.
(I took the access class by mistake. It was 'database fundamentals', which apparently means 'Learn how to use a propriatory database front end for a psuedo sql database that you will learn nothing about'. I didn't drop out because I figured 'what the hell, people say Access is hot shit so I'll learn it')
The OO.org 2.x base stuff is completely new. It has it's own SQL database now, HSQL as well as a native Mysql driver and ODBC support.
I couldn't get it to work well with GCJ java stuff though. It'd mostly work, but it wasn't reliable and random stuff would fail. (namely the forms wizard).
I had to use Sun java to get it to work well.
Probably the best approach is use the native built-in database support before trying out mysql support.
I found this as a nice way to get my head wrapped around it:
Now Access is crap. It realy is. Documentation is very poor and it's non-intuitive and difficult to use.
OO.org base is worse, although this has mostly to do with (lack of) documentation. But it works and that is what counts.
The reason I used it is because it runs on Windows, otherwise I think that there are probably better database front ends.
I actually recommend learning OO.org or some details of MS office to learn what sort of thing regular users have to put up with and get used to. It's a eye openner.
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released Posted Mar 31, 2007 6:37 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link] It was 2.0 (Edgy's reporting it as 2.0.4, though that could have changed), but it was probably the gcj version at the time.
Thanks for the links, I'll take a look! :)
Dennis
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