Re: [gtkmm] Touch screens and Point of Sale

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:07, Ian Michell wrote:
> Murray,
> 
> You are very right, I would love to help out with the database stuff as
> I have access to loads of them: Sybase, SQLServer, Oracle, etc, etc,
> etc.

Excellent.

> Maybe I can send my code to you and you can have a look see at it.

I'm not personally all that interested in implementing a POS system. But
lots of other people are.

>  I
> have already implemented it into the POS. (I find most db libraries suck
> for what I need them to do, so I wrote a nice interface to it :-) ), the
> only thing of note is that I use the C API for mysql as it is better
> than the C++ one, as the users have to install the c++ libraries for it
> to use it, so the C one was better on that front.
> I think you will be impressed by what I have managed to do. :)
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:41, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:04, Ian Michell wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Database Library (multi
> > > database support -> not fully implemented)
> > [snip]
> > 
> > I encourage you to work on libgdamm, the C++ bindings for libgda. Reuse
> > is best, and libgda is now quite a mature project. I'm starting to look
> > at libgdamm again, and the very simple examples now work, in cvs.
> > 
> > See the gnomemm/libgdamm cvs module.
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