Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:54 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:43:58 -0500, Daniel Espinosa Ortiz
> <esodan yahoo com mx> wrote:
> > I think we will need Widgets to manage a Fields, may useful when you
> > create a gnome_db_form.
> > 
> > The you have gnome_db_text, gnome_db_date, and one for any GdaValue type
> > exist. this Widget may have an associated Label, and some methods.
> 
> I've already created such a class, but for libmergeant (can't be used
> as-is for libgnomedb because it requires the data dictionnary
> libmergeant maintains). If you want to have a look, the classes are
> MgDataEntry (the actual base class for widget to be found in a form)
> and MgDataHandler (a base non widget class to convert between SQL,
> user and GdaValue some values).
> 
it looks to me much better to have a single class than a
GnomeDbDate/Int/Float, etc. Is that how it works in Mergeant?

> If we want one day to make libmergeant and libgnomedb closer, then I
> think we should have a kind of framework for form entry widgets in
> libgnomedb which libmergeant will improve on (I say "improve" because
> it has a finer view of the data types, etc because of the data
> dictionnary it maintains).
> 
as we talked some time ago, libmergeant and libgnomedb should probably
be merged at some point in future. The current widgets-only approach of
libgnomedd makes it quite unattractive for many people, who prefer to
just use normal GTK widget bound to libgda data. So, I think we should
try to have libgnomedb/libmergeant be an extension to GTK, so that
people can continue using any kind of GTK widget with access to the rich
libgmergeant dictionary. That would make libgnomedb/libmergeant a much
more attractive library to use.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>