Openoffice Base

Brant Fitzsimmons brant at bfcomputerconsulting.com
Sat Nov 12 21:44:45 UTC 2005


neil woolford wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:51 +0000, Norman Silverstone wrote:
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>>Has anyone tried to use Openoffice Base?
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>Yes, and it looks good, but...
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>> I decided to have a look at it
>>and met problems. I got as far as the screen asking me to select what
>>form I wanted and on attempting to select, Openoffice froze.
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>...is the kind of thing that is still happening more than it should.
>(!)
>
>This is a reply in haste, so no detail, but there is a section about
>Base in the OpenOffice.org forums which does give lots of useful
>information including the causes of some crashes plus workarounds.  Much
>should be fixed in 2.0.1 which is expected at the end of this month.
>2.0.0 which I have running under Windows is tidier than 1.9 129 default
>installed under Breezy.
>
>I'm actively looking to replace one or two elderly Paradox databases
>with Base.  I'm at the playing stage now, but expect to try for real
>once 2.0.1 is out.  It does appear that many of the crash causes are
>well understood and on the way to fixed status.  Also, finished
>applications are reported to be stable, the bugs are mainly in the
>design tools.
>
>Neil
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Any chance breezy will include updates to 2.0 stable?

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