[wellylug] Database application using OpenOffice?

[Andrej Ricnik]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:23, Hong Chyr wrote:
>  Hi all

>  Has anyone heard of/have any experience with developing a
> database application using mysql and openoffice (ala MS
> Access)?

>  I know OOo can talk to mysql via ODBC and in oowriter/oocalc
> there are basic form functions. But is it possible to
> development an application out if these components?

>  I really don't want to go back to the MS Access route if
> possible.
I've seen in posts that people do that, but you may want
to use rekall (which -in the free version- functions as
a front-end to PostgreSQL, xBase files and MySQL).

Cheers
Andrej