Re: [gnome-db] Re: dwi and libgda

[Andrew Hill <andru treshna com>]

Fernando Martins wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm a part-time contributor to gASQL and I also follow this list. Regarding
> your comments on the HTML problems:
>
>  
>
> > > Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean.   If I use glade to design a simple
> > > form, using mostly nothing but gtkentry and gtkbutton, then this should
> > > be fairly straightforward? Or is it that you can't tell what the submit
> > > button is frm glade?
> > >
> > >      
> > yeah using just gtkentry and button is straight forward.
> > but i dont have any apps written in bond that are that simple, they all
> > have a wide
> > variety of widgets. and somethng like a gtkclist, and esp a gtkdropdown
> >    
> make
>  
>
> > a lot of callbacks.  Ie user changes this widget, these widgets are
> > depend on it
> > and must change there values accordingly.  and bang you have to do
> > another post,
> > and thats 1-5 seconds delay.  unless someoen knows some fancy arse html
> >    
> (non
>  
>
> > java) way to avoid refreshing widgets with posts.
> >    
>
> I would suggest you have a look at http://openthought.net/screenshots.php
>
> I'm not really familiar with it but it came imediately to my mind while I
> was reading your comments, so it might not be far away. :)
>
> Another possibility, maybe overkill but still interesting, is to use SashXB
> from IBM http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/sashxb/
>
> Best of success.
>
> Fernando
>
> PS: btw, gASQL also binds glade forms to a database (but I'm not familiar
> with this part of the project to add more comments).
>  
Thanks for the information,  openthought looked very useful.
gASQL is kinda like a ms access for GTK.  Its resonbly nice but still 
awfully
similar to something like native pgAdmin tools etc. but it uses gnome-db!.