ANNOUNCE: Glom 0.9.92 (Beta 2)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** Glom

With Glom you can design table definitions and the relationships between 
them, plus arrange the fields on the screen. You can edit and search the 
data in those tables, and specify field values in terms of other fields. 
It's as easy as it should be.

Glom uses the PostgreSQL database backend but it can not edit databases
that it did not create, because it uses only a simple subset of Postgres
functionality.

Here are some screenshots, with explanations:
http://www.glom.org/screenshots/

Glom is written in C++, with gtkmm, Bakery, and libgdamm. It uses 
Python for calculated fields, with help from pygtk.

More information is at
http://www.glom.org


*** Changes since Beta 1

0.9.92

* Database Preferences: Added Organisation Logo field.
* Details layouts and report:
  * Added Image layout part, for arbitrary images on the layout.
* Reports:
  * Added Header and Footer parts.
  * Show images.
  * Tell the user that the report will be opened in the browser, in case the 
    browser is not at the front.

0.9.91

* Creating databases: Make sure that the user is in the developer group, even if he has never 
  opened an example, allowing him to change his own database.
* Date fields:
 - Show and parse 4 digits for the year, even if the locale (stftime) stupidly thinks otherwise, 
   though this need attention from translators in affected locales. Fixed for en_GB (Britain).
   Was not a problem for en_US or de_DE.
* Details layouts:
 - Fields with choices are no longer insensitive when read-only, so you can now, 
   for instance, select and copy text out of them, or see what is in their menus.

0.9.9:

* Details layouts:
  - Added a Notebook layout part, with tabs, so the details can show more information, 
    such as several related layouts portals.
  - Stop pictures and calculated values from existing records appearing on new empty records.
* View Layouts and Reports:
  - Allow doubly-related fields. For instance, Actor::Agent::name on the Details of a 
    a Character record.
  - Add a Text layout part, for arbitrary text on the Details view, or reports.
* Reports:
  - Allow top-level fields in reports, for non-grouped-by reports.
  - Allow use of Group By parts without specified group-by fields, so they 
    can be (mis)used just to specify a sort field for non-grouped-by records.
  - Allow Group By parts to be sorted by multiple fields, and allow the sort 
    order (ascending or descending) to be specified.
  - Added Vertical Group report part, for packing more information into a row.
  - Allow adding of fields as siblings while selecting the field, instead of 
    requiring the user to select the parent group.
  - Allow custom formatting of fields.
  - Allow a border width to be specified for the records table cells.
  - Added a horizontal line below group-by titles.

http://www.glom.org

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Murray Cumming
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