Re: [LUG] LibreOffice 7.3 Base

[Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    On 21/06/2022 21:23, Tom via list wrote:
> Every
>       now and then I play with LibreOffice using the documentation that
>       comes with it. It has generally not been that good and I've failed
>       to get the examples working. This time however I've managed to get
>       nearly 100 pages into the Base documentation and it seems to be
>       going quite well so far.  I used to write lots of little but very
>       useful apps in MS Access a long time ago and for the first time I
>       have a feeling I may be able to do the same with Base!
>       
>       
>       Just wondering if any of you have had any success with it and
>       connecting to external DBs?
>       
>       
>       Tom te tom te tom
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>     
    Real users are working in
      MariaDB/Oracle/Postgresql/NOSQL/etc .. :P
      
      That said, I really miss the MS Visual-Basic API which allowed you
      to do all sorts of crazy things in Moffice, which I've never seen
      possible with the limited StarOffice-inspired API for
      Libre/Openoffice. The data model is horrendous... if anyone can
      point me to some more sensible programming interface, I've got to
      admit, I am curious, because scripting up handy macro functions
      was something that really enhanced my Office experience ...
      
      And yeah, years gone by now, I scripted a PHP page to a MySQL
      database which I populated from a user-supplied text file .. Fun
      times..!

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