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Flo

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Aug 18, 2018, 2:00:03 PM8/18/18
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Hi,

I wrote a database program where I built a form which uses a checkbox.
It has always worked.

I haven't used that program for a few months and now the checkbox in the
form doesn't work anymore.

I am using Version: 6.1.0.2 .

Does anyone have a clue what happened. I tried a lot to make it work but
I failed.

Going through the options menu now I realize that there are no check
boxes. It looks like that they have disappeared completely in my
LibreOffice.

What can that be? I hope anyone can help.

Thank you.

Regards,
Flo

Sven Joachim

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Aug 18, 2018, 2:20:04 PM8/18/18
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On 2018-08-18 19:40 +0200, Flo wrote:

> I wrote a database program where I built a form which uses a checkbox.
> It has always worked.
>
> I haven't used that program for a few months and now the checkbox in the
> form doesn't work anymore.
>
> I am using Version: 6.1.0.2 .

>From which source? The version in Debian unstable and testing reports
itself as 6.1.0.3.

> Does anyone have a clue what happened. I tried a lot to make it work but
> I failed.
>
> Going through the options menu now I realize that there are no check
> boxes. It looks like that they have disappeared completely in my
> LibreOffice.
>
> What can that be?

Probably https://bugs.debian.org/905408, which has been closed by the
maintainer. If you are using a Debian package, and it is not 1:6.1.0-1
(or 1:6.1.0-1~bpo9+2 if you use stretch-backports), please upgrade.

Cheers,
Sven

Joe

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Aug 18, 2018, 4:00:04 PM8/18/18
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The best help I can offer is to recommend you don't use Base for
anything mission-critical. It's barely useable, buggy as hell and
it frequently regresses. It hasn't improved much in the last five years,
though at least it can talk to MySQL directly now rather than using the
even less functional ODBC.

You and I must be two of about three people in the world using Base,
because there's no sense of urgency there. I'm doing pretty much all my
database work in PHP now.

--
Joe

Flo

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Aug 18, 2018, 6:00:04 PM8/18/18
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>
> The best help I can offer is to recommend you don't use Base for
> anything mission-critical. It's barely useable, buggy as hell and
> it frequently regresses. It hasn't improved much in the last five years,
> though at least it can talk to MySQL directly now rather than using the
> even less functional ODBC.
>
> You and I must be two of about three people in the world using Base,
> because there's no sense of urgency there. I'm doing pretty much all my
> database work in PHP now.
>

It is kind of critical, I programmed my tax consultant with Base. At
least it's not time critical :-)

Regards,
Flo

Flo

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Aug 18, 2018, 6:00:04 PM8/18/18
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Yes, the upgrade solved that problem!

Thank you.

Regards,
Flo

Joe

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Aug 19, 2018, 4:10:05 AM8/19/18
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Last year, I opened Base to print an invoice, and the Report Writer was
gone. Not a sign of it opening. I've had trouble with Report Writer
before, but never had it actually go missing. So I spent an evening
learning a PDF library and writing an invoice printer in PHP...

It's a much better application, but it's single-purpose, so not a great
ROI. I once had hopes of Base aspiring to be an Access (by far the best
software MS has ever produced) clone, but I can't see it happening now.
It never got good enough to get enough users to justify the effort to
make it good enough...

--
Joe
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