Re: [gtkmm] Touch screens and Point of Sale

[Ian Michell <ian michell hanzi co uk>]

Lol, sorry I wasn't clear enough, the code I would be sending you would
be the database code only, as it is relevant (not like the pos) you are
far to busy with GTKMM! :)

Rgds

Ian



On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:31, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.