Re: Quick question about GDA

[matt nottingham virgin net]

Rodrigo Moya writes:
> On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 13:35, matt nottingham virgin net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use Gnumeric_gdaif (with gnumeric 1.0.9) but I can't
> > find any useful docs. I've looked through the CVS source but there are
> > no examples either. I've also looked at the libgda documentation, but
> > that just seems to give an API reference. What I would like to know is
> > the format for the DSN argument of execSQL - any examples would be
> > great (I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database). Whatever I try it
> > just comes back with "Error: could not open connection to %s" - which
> > isn't the most helpfull of messages either!
> DSN is the name of a GDA data sources, as configured on your system (run
> gnomedb-fe and start the 'new dsn' wizard). That wizard will guide you
> through all the process of creating the DSN, and the, you just have to
> use the name you chose for the DSN as argument to execSQL.
>
> cheers

Thanks for that. I eventually got it to work (gnomedb-fe seems to be
quite buggy and not very user friendly). I now just have to figure out
how to get gnumeric to do something useful with it.

Thanks,

Matt Nottingham