Re: [gnome-db] Proposals for mergeant

[mike <mike redtux1 uklinux net>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:09, malerba gnome-db org wrote:
> > As mergeant is not really finished yet, these are my ideas about what I
> > would like to see in it, based on my experience with access (love it or
> > loathe it, it is pretty much the standard in desktop DB tools in
> > windows)
> >
> > Database management
> >
> > Create/alter table (if backend supports it)
> > View table
> > View source sql of table
> > Create/amend relationships/RI/joins etc
> >
> > Tables
> > View table
> > Sort/filter table
> >
> > Queries
> >
> > Ability to create queries in app and to see results
> > Gui query tool, with a toggle mode for sql
> > Ability to do multi-field joins in GUI
> > Treat saved queries as table
> >
> > Forms
> >
> > Multi-table forms
> > calculated controls
> > some ablilty to attach scripting code to objects
> >
> > Reports
> >
> > Grouping functions
> > prettification
> > export to html
> >
> > These are my initial ideas - any comments
> 
> 
> This is also more or less what I have in mind.
> 
> The latest version of Mergeant is 0.12, and I've spent the last months
> making a library (libmergeant) which manages the data dictionnary (the
> tables, views, constraints, etc in the DBMS), queries (any type) and forms
> and tabular views of data.
> 
> Rodrigo has started to write a new skeleton for Mergeant (in the frontend/
> directory under the mergeant module in CVS).
> 
> I'm currently working on improving libmergeant (with a grid widget to
> enable direct data modification).
> 
> If you'd like to help, then I can give you some ideas of work to start with.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vivien
> _________

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mergeant module

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