Re: Database Application Development with Perl / Gtk / Tk

[Daniel Lacroix <dlacroix erasme org>]

Le mer 26/03/2003 Ã 09:02, bharat zonnet nl a Ãcrit :
> Good morning all,

Hi,

> I am looking for guidance regarding the above subject. I am planning to 
> build an application (pretty database intensive about a million records , 
> reads, writes) with GUI frontend in either PERL GTK or PERL TK. Do you 
> think that the application will be fast enough.
> I have read thru the manuals and some of the mailing lists.

I think that Perl Gtk can be fast enought. Query speed mostly depend on
your DB. Graphical interface are executed locally on your users
computers. So they have enough ressources for Perl and Gtk.

I do personnally develop a database interface for my company needs in
Perl/Gnome2. Some shots at:

http://lab.erasme.org/db-inter-shot/

but my work is far from beeing finished. The negative point for
Perl/Gtk2 is certainly the lack of documentation to learn (but that's
not a problem for me).

Else, to develop the DB interface, I have done a generic work. The
database interface specification is in one file which give table specs
and dependencies. The whole interface is automatically build upon this
specification. This allow me to also develop a web version of the system
(more advanced than the Perl/Gnome2 version and already used by users).

But for now I don't have many time to spend on this project neither to
explain it. The only thing is that it prove you can do it. I use it in a
DB with the following specs:

- 13 tables
- 3000 rows for now

this it not as big as you DB.

Tk is also a choice (documentation,multiplateform...) but I hate this
toolkit and found it unusable.

> My competency --highly experienced in ERP (Functional/Technical) , basic 
> knowledge of PERL, newbie to GNOME/GTK
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Bharat Pondugula
>
>
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