OpenOffice 2.0

david nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Dec 21 17:48:32 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:15, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Jon Dixon wrote:
> 
> >Will we be getting the betas of this on Hoary?
> >
> >Apparently it *is* feature complete and ready for beta.
> >  
> >
> How much of OpenOffice 2.0 works if you don't have Java installed? I 
> think the new database component is built on Java.
> 
> .henrik

I have OO1.9 installed. Initially I had the java bin installed and 
everything seemed to work except the Database wizards. So I removed that
java and went back to the Fedora Core 2 rpm's run through alien to make
them into deb's and the wizards worked fine after that. So yes, a
working java installation is required. The advantage of the wizards is
that you get pre made tables/fields that you can insert and can specify
the format of the form to be generated and then go on to edit the form.
The "create form in design view" seemed to lead to a not very intuitive
screen whereas the wizard way is quite easy to use. All the databases
created this way are in .odb which is in fact a compressed (like gz)
file containing an xml file and a text file. The "connect to existing
database" via odbc/sql etc seemed as confusing and hard to use as ever.
(Speaking from a database beginners point of view.)

regards

David





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