Re: notices on front end

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 27 Dec 2000 15:44:08 +0200, Margus Vali wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm running RH7 with ORBit-0.5.6, oaf-0.6.1, bonobo-0.31 and GConf-0.11
> upgraded from eazel hourly distro (200012270216-200012270216). 
> Also upgraded/updated the build environment from RH mirror and some
> packages from spidermonkey.helixcode.com RH7 dir.
> 
> some problems/notices:
> - gnome-db configure doesn't check whether gal and libglade devels are
> installed

ok, I'll work on this soon.

> - the purpose of online help system is unclear to me, could it be just
>  on the help menu to open gnome-help separately?

well, I plan to have an integrated help system. To be included in the
front end. But I'm sorry it does not work very well. But I'll work on it
soon

> - at least the connect is now successful (thanks, Rodrigo)
> - the provider manager doesn't reflect the status of providers (seems like
> down while the process actually runs). Can't shut down the provider either.
> kill -HUP doesn't shut the provider down. kill -KILL helps.

this part also needs some fixes. Thanks for noting them

> - sometimes making connection in the database component fails somehow
> leaving the opening connection popup window open/sometimes closes it, but
> the connection is made successfully in the second attempt. This only
> happens with the mysql provider. Postgres provider seems to be ok the first
> time.

hmm, strange. I'll have a look also at that code. It happened sometimes
to me, but it stopped some time ago.

> - in the database sql widget running a select query always fails, two
> Error Viewer windows pop up with two messages:
> IDL:CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0: An Error occured in the CORBA system.
> %s: An Error occured in the CORBA system.
> The other error viewer window only shows 1/1, but contains actually 2
> messages
> like the first one. browsing around the messages, closing first window,
> then
> clicking 'next' on the other crashes the database component.
> As you can guess, no grid with database rows appears :) What's the
> appropriate orbit/oaf/bonobo version to use?

with the ones you've got it's ok. The problem is one I found the other
day which I was not sure if it was included in the 0.2.1 release. So
please, get sources from CVS and compile them. I'll make a release in a
couple of days.

> gda-test works ok with postgres provider and the browser shows the
> table structures (Types page should have a bigger text widget).
> - otherwise, good work! (what about the etable that can be
> modified and the database data updated afterwards, this would make
> it a whole lot more usable?)
> 

we plan to change the GnomeDbGrid widget to use the etable widget. But,
well, about updatable recordsets, we had a discussion about them some
time ago (look in the archives). If you can add something to the
discussion (== a solution) it will be welcome.

I've been quite busy lately, so I haven't made much progress, but I'll fix all

this next century :)

cheers