[Kexi] Kexi on Ubuntu 10.10

[Anne Wainwright]

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. I use the 'text editor' (abcd button) to create the
box and can then assign that to a field.

> 
> > 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.
>