Re: [gnome-db] UI changes and procedure editor

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>If you get mergeant from CVS, you'll see some UI tweaks I've made,
>which, although quite small, make it look much better, IMO.
>Another thing is about the procedure/function editor. I know we already
>talked about it, and that a good solution was discussed, but I am
>thinking that a quick-but-works solution might be a good idea.
>That is, what about adding a Procedures tab on the main mergeant window,
>and, on it, have a list of all procedures, and give the user the ability
>to edit the SQL (which we retrieve via the schema) of the selected
>procedures.

That would be very nice, I know that we are pretty desperate for any
kind of procedure maint. functionality.

>This is an easy hack that I can do in a few hours, and which will only
>need (for the updating back of the procedure) the implementation of a
>small bit of the modify_schema we talked about. Then, once we have this
>basic stuff, we can extend the modify_schema, and have the procedure
>editor support all the things we discussed (multiple languages, etc).

Thats seems reasonable.

Curious if the final solution will implement syntax highlighting,
etc...  There are lots of GNOME applications out there that do
highlighted code editing (glimmer, anjuta, ....).  Do they use a code
editing component or something that could be lifted.  Glimmer supports
highlighted SQL, I don't know about others.

>But, as a first step, since I think many people will appreciate having a
>procedure editor, 

Yes we would, at least where I am.