Co-mentor sought: Listbox separate Read Values from Input Values

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Anybody feels like co-mentoring that project with me?

Hrishabh, note that Google currently refuses to accept mail from me to
gmail.com addresses, and I am thus unable to email you.

On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 02:28:33PM +0530, Hrishabh Rajput wrote:
> Hello Community,
> 
> I am Hrishabh Rajput, 2nd year undergraduate student from Indian Institute
> of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP). I performed my first build successfully
> in September'17. Also, I am very well familiar with the C++ language. (IRC
> Nick: hrishabh)
> 
> I am interested in and would like to work on the GSoC project related to
> LibreOffice Base, ListBox separate Read Values from Input Values:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Listbox_separate_read_values_from_input_values.
> I have already started to explore the project and to understand the
> implementation of ListBox.
> 
> I found out that the Modules "connectivity" and "dbaccess" are under the
> Database Access Project. And the modules "forms" and "svx" are also related
> to Database Access, but are in different projects. Found this out from
> https://www.openoffice.org/dba/development/project_structure.html.
> Probably, I will be working in these modules for most of my time, if not
> all, particularly in the file ListBox.cxx (
> https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/forms/source/component/ListBox.cxx
> ).
> 
> I also made myself familiar with LO Base, and tried to understand the
> implementation of ListBox and it's terminology. What I got is that the list
> entries are the strings that are shown to the user. These list entries are
> mapped to the ValueList, and they together form the List Content. The
> ValueList is mapped to the Datafield (which is a column of the Value Table
> of the Database).
> 
> It would be great if some insight and guidance is provided on the project
> and correctness of the above information.
> 
> Thank you.

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