Re: [gnome-db] Egnima's status

[Malerba_Vivien stna dgac fr]

Sorry for taking so long to reply, I was on holiday till yesterday...


Le jeu 11/07/2002 à 19:14, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 10:55, Malerba_Vivien stna dgac fr wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've mostly finished the Gnome 2 porting of Egnima, there are still a
> > few bugs to fix but it is useable to do some development as it should
> > compile without any problem, open and close a connection (using a
> > predefined XML file) and quit. There is still a problem with the custom
> > made canvas items, the error is:
> > (egnima:32622): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c:
> > line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL'
> > failed
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the work I propose for the near future:
> > - continue and fix the remaining bugs in the Query structure (me)
> > - investigate the canvas problem (me)
> > - fix the bugs when loading the structure of a DB from libgda (not from
> > an XML file), that is adapt to the libgda schemas or make sure the
> > schemas are used in the right way (Rodrigo?)
> >
> I've already made the change to support the extended info for types and
> tables in MySQL, but egnima is still crashing for me when opening the
> connection.
> 
> > - include the SQL console window (Rodrigo?)
> >
> I'm about to commit the beginning of this.

I've seen the result but I haven't managed to commit a query, how do you
do it (there was a toolbar in gnome-db to do it)?

> 
> > - start adding printing support
> > - more (I'll provide a kind of roadmap soon).
> 
> I'll provide some things I've found about:
> 
> * remove the dialog that asks for the password after selecting the data
> source, since the username and password can be retrieved from the
> GnomeDbLogin widget in the previous dialog.

Ok, this is because you've changed libgda to allow for password storage
in the libgda config. I propose that the dialog be removed if there is
already a password, and kept present if none is present (maybe the user
does not want to store his password in the libgda config file but give
it at runtime). OK?

> 
> * the ordering of the buttons in dialogs has changed for GNOME 2, so
> Ok/Cancel should be changed to Cancel/Ok. I've already made this change
> in the dialog for quitting, and will be changing it in other dialogs as
> I find them.

Ok.

> 
> * I created a new MIME type in libgda, which uses .connection as
> extension and XML for defining parameters to open a connection (there's
> some work on a nautilus view in libgnomedb, which should work as of the
> docs, but doesn't :-( So, I was thinking that we could use this MIME
> type for Egnima also, extending the XML as needed by Egnima. Thus, we
> could easily associate that MIME type to Egnima and have it integrated
> in the rest of GNOME. So, what about extending this .connection file to
> support all Egnima needs, and use it?

I have not heard about the .connection but the idea is good. Is there
any doc about that somewhere?

Tonight I will work on the latest missing piece of code (the QueryExec
object) to be able to execute queries (at last!) so we have the
beginning of something working.

Cheers,

Vivien