Re: MS Access-like component

["Robert Staudinger" <robert staudinger gmail com>]

Hi Ramon,

check out Glom[1] too. It only supports PostgreSQL at the moment
because its main developer want to concentrate on app features rather
than database abstraction. Rumors however are that supporting MySQL
would be possible, albeit involving substantial work[2].

[1] http://www.glom.org
[2] http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2613#comment-40571

Best,
Rob


On 3/12/06, Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 mars 2006 à 19:27 -0800, Ramon Nogueira a écrit :
> > Hi, new to this so please bear with me - this has probably been hashed
> > over 100s of times before. I am a fairly new developer wishing to get
> > into some new project. I've tried (or been forced to try) MS Access
> > and OOo Base. In my experience, it has actually been easier to use
> > Mysql with something like phpMyAdmin. I realise that the two fill
> > different roles, with Access and Base being desktop database systems,
> > but the actual end-product produced in both cases is, in my
> > experience, disappointing. There should be a way to easily go from
> > conseptual design to database to (fairly) automatic front-end
> > generation.
> >
> > As I understand it, the current gnome data access centers around
> > libgnomedb which can work with multiple back-ends. You set up your
> > database and then use this library to integrate it into your gtk
> > front-end which is designed and implemented separately. What I and
> > many other used to Access would like, I think, is for all development
> > to happend in one place - like in Access and Base. But for the
> > front-end to be as polished as is possible with developing your own.
> > Access generates hideous front-ends and Base has such limited
> > functionality and isn't integrated with anything else.
> >
> > If this is a stupid idea, please tell me (and tell me why :-) or if
> > something similar already exists..
>
> I am not aware of such a thing. There is a frontend to gnome-db under
> development (mergeant), but I don't think it provides a such feature.
> Seems interesting.
>
> Best regards,
> Jean Bréfort
>
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