Issue 71860

Summary:	implement an API for operating on a living alive form
Product:	Base	Reporter:	Frank Schönheit <frank.schoenheit>
Component:	code	Assignee:	Frank Schönheit <frank.schoenheit>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	issues@dba <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	recent-trunk	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	OOo 2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	TASK	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---
Issue Depends on:
Issue Blocks:	63449

Description Frank Schönheit 2006-11-22 14:57:00 UTC

There currently is no API for operating on a alive form (that is a logical form
in a document, which is loaded, has controls, and so on).

This makes it hard to access some functionality in scripts. For instance,
imagine a script which wants to save the potentially modified current record. It
must
- determine whether the actual control in the document view is modified
- if so, commit the control or its model (depending on which supports the
  XBoundComponent interface)
- determine whether the current record in the form is modified
- if not, exit.
- if yes, determine whether the form is currently positioned on the insertion row
- if so, call XResultSetUpdate.insertRow
- if not, call XResultSetUpdate.updateRow

Those steps are laborious and cumbersome to implement, not to mention that there
currently is not even an API access to the current control in the document view.

A lot of other functionality (nearly everything which is available in the form
navigation toolbar) suffers form the same problem: Implementing it properly,
using the API only, is difficult, up to impossible.

We will implement a dedicated API which provides an easy access to this.

Comment 1 Frank Schönheit 2006-11-22 22:02:25 UTC

implemented in CWS dba22a

Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2006-11-27 11:14:19 UTC

verified the implementations did make it into CWS dba22a

Comment 3 Frank Schönheit 2006-11-27 12:46:29 UTC

targeting to 2.2, since the fix is part of a CWS aiming for this release

Comment 4 ace_dent 2008-05-16 03:31:10 UTC

This Issue is 'Verified' and not updated in 1yr+, so Closing.
A Closed Issue is a Happy Issue (TM).

Regards,
Andrew
 
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