[Kexi] Kexi on Ubuntu 10.10

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Jaroslaw,

down below


On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:43:43 +0200
Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:

> On 11 September 2011 23:54, Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> > Hello, Jaroslaw,
> >
> > thank you, I have that going, see note below.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:52:56 +0200
> > Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10 September 2011 14:52, Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Last time  I wrote we weren't there, now we are and I have
> >> > upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and have Kexi 2.2.2 running.
> >> >
> >> > (See thread started by Swarup 24 March 2011) "How to add a column to
> >> > table in Kexi 1.1.3?).
> >> >
> >> > My databases were created using Kexi 1. Would I be right in suspecting
> >> > that there are incompatibilities with these and Kexi 2 and that I
> >> > will have to create a new database using Kexi 2 ?
> >> >
> >> > We can connect and view data in the main database table and queries but
> >> > the original data entry form is no-go. In Data view we get a page
> >> > layout of 'KexiDBAutoField's but no data. In Design view I see no
> >> > fields in the Property Editor and thus no way of assigning fields to
> >> > the display, or even of creating a new form.
> >> >
> >> > The following is given in the Property Editor.
> >> > "No datasource can be assigned for this widget"
> >> > so it looks like it does not read from the existing.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hello Anne,
> >> Support for AutoField widgets is the major visible change since Kexi 2.2.
> >> Users have to remove them and insert text boxes and text labels instead.
> >
> > If I drop a 'text box' onto the form then it crashes kexi which
> > disappears totally.
> 
> Hi Anne,
> Could you paste backtrace information, a list that appears in the
> 'crash' window afterwards?
There is no 'crash' window, kexi evaporates totally. I have just
revisited this (as superuser)

Insert a 'text box' into blank area of page and it crashes
That is widget 4 from left on 'Form Design' tab

Insert a 'text editor' into blank area of page and we are up, up, &
away!
This is widget 5 from left on 'Form Design' tab

Anne

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> >> > Whether I look at my main postgresql database or one created in SqLite
> >> > the situation is the same.
> >>
> >> That's true, the incompatibility is withing forms so it's independent
> >> of the data source type.
> >>
> >> We plan to have flexible layouts that would cover the use case of
> >> autofields better.
> >>
> >> To make life easier for users of Kexi 1.x I just came to conclusion
> >> that AutoFiels should be somehow 'imported' as labels+text boxes. It
> >> would be for Kexi 2.4.1 or so.
> >>
> >
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