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Table of Contents
   Startup
   Property Editor
   Forms
   Table Designer
   Data And Project Migration
   KexiDB
   Reports
   KOffice-related
   Documentation
   Usability

(planned features will be implemented after 1.0 release)

Startup

  • [ready, not tested] KWallet integration
  • [done] Connection dialog, .kexis file support
^ toc

Property Editor

  • [done] Selecting pixmap for pixmap property (usually bg pixmap or pixmap label):
    • use QImageIO::inputFormats() or KImageIO::mimeTypes() to get mime types for "Open" file dialog
  • [done] Add groups support to editor, and to core property lib.
  • [done] merge with kproperty library
^ toc

Forms

  • [done] add data-aware pixmap widget to kexi forms
  • [mostly done] make KexiDBAutoField changing automatically when needed to:
    • [mostly done] combo box (while using foreign key)
    • [done] spin box (for integers)
    • [done] pixmap label (for blob pixmaps)
    • [done] draw "(autonumber)" information
  • [done] Avoid errors and handle invalid dataSource property values within forms
  • [done] show errors as "#NAME?" in line edits and other data-aware widgets
  • [done] "autonumber" information in form's text field http://iidea.pl/~js/kexi/shots/1.0/form_autonumber.png
  • [in progress] add 'data source' tab to property panel
  • [done] added 'widgets tree' tab to property panel
  • [done] use comboboxes instead of lineedits for dataSource property in the propeditor
  • [done] provide a list of field names and a possibility of dragging field names to a form surface
  • [done] implement db-aware image box for Object (BLOB) type.
^ toc

Table Designer

  • [done] implement pixmaps handling as one of supported BLOB subtypes.
  • [planned] support for defining relations
^ toc

Data And Project Migration

  • [done] CSV data import (file/clipboard)
http://kexi-project.org/pics/1.0/csv_import_v2.png
  • [almost done] CSV data export (file/clipboard) see here
^ toc

KexiDB

  • [in progress] ALTER TABLE (a possibility for altering table design without losing its data)
  • [started] support for editing 1-to-many relational data
  • [in progress] clean the API and merge with keximigration library
  • [done] reuse "table renaming" of SQLite 3.2.8
^ toc

Reports

  • [done] Simple data printing with settings and print preview
^ toc

KOffice-related

  • Add minimalReadableFont() to KoGlobal, probably using a code from KexiMainWindowImpl(external)::initPropertyEditor().
^ toc

Documentation

  • [in progress] Update user documentation, especially for following topics: forms, csv import, project import.
^ toc

Usability

Receiving usability and bug reports and from Alan Horkan. He has prepared some win32 shots as well: http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/devel/kde/koffice/kexi/screenshots/



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