[gtkmm] Re: Developing portable enterprise applications

[Alessandro Oliveira <alessandro o nunoferreira com br>]

What kind o report system did you use ? I've been thinking about using 
xml/xsl duo, but I didn't have time to test html rendering/printing on 
wxWindows or gtkmm.

Thanks a lot.

Tasker,George wrote:

> Greetings Alessandro,
>
> The company I used to work for began using wxWindows at version 1.68.  We
> needed a crossplatform solution.  The ODBC classes originally included with
> v1.68 did not meet our needs, so we wrote our own, which I later adapted and
> the classes were incorporated as the standard ODBC classes for wxWindows.
>
> The application did inventory management, order processing, receipt
> processing, etc.  We never did have a customer that went with a Unix
> solution, so we ended up being Windows-only.
>
> The application had approximately 100 screens, all done using non-sizer
> based dialogs (sizers didn't exist back then).  The database used ODBC to
> support our primary targets of Oracle and SQLServer (and the classes as they
> exist now in v2.4.x of wxWindows support a much larger number of DB
> vendors).
>
> The application was client/server.
>
> When I left the company, we had a customer base of 350 customers (or at
> least that many registered compies distributed...including freebies they
> gave away with the machinery we sold).  Being multiuser systems, customers
> had anywhere from a single workstation, up to 12 workstations (12 was the
> biggest I was aware of, though in theory there was no limits on
> workstations).
>
> When I left, FastPicSystems was just releasing a new WinCE piece of software
> written totally in VB.  All development using wxWindows was at a halt, as
> the product using wxWindows was considered stable, and no customers were
> interested in crossplatform versions, so development for the WinCE platform
> and a stripped down version of the software did not need the overhead of a
> crossplatform toolkit.
>
> You can see the software/screenshots/literature on the product at:
> http://www.fastpicsystems.com/docs/products/warehouse/fp4/index.asp
>
> Hope this helps!
> g
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alessandro Oliveira [mailto:alessandro o nunoferreira com br] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:16 AM
> > To: gtkmm-list gnome org; wx-users lists wxwindows org
> > Subject: Developing portable enterprise applications
> >
> >
> > We are planning to create a medium database application, with about 3 
> > hundred screens and 120 database tables, the client side must be 
> > portable at least to linux and windows and the server side 
> > should run on 
> > linux using C++ as the primary language, the client/server 
> > communication 
> > would use either omniORB or MICO, the database layer must be 
> > able to run 
> > on Postgresql and Oracle.
> >
> > We are considering two portable toolkits: gtkmm and 
> > wxWindows. We have 
> > been testing gtkmm for some time and we found that gtkmm it 
> > is a great 
> > toolkit and it has a very clean design, although it is 
> > slightly slow on 
> > windows, I mean its larger than we think it should be. The 
> > wxWindows on 
> > the other hand its very thin and applications feel very 
> > responsive, but 
> > it is a little bit more complicated and less intuitive than gtkmm.
> >
> > Now, we'd like to hear about success stories of the use of 
> > both toolkits 
> > in applications similar to this.
> >
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Best Regards,

Alessandro Oliveira
Nuno Ferreira Cargas Internacionais Ltda.
Phone: +55-11-3241-2000
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