Re: General questions

[Bart Verstraete <bartverstraete telenet be>]

Arthur wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> I'm starting using gtkmm (with Glade and Anjuta->Linux and 
> Dev-Cpp->Windows).
> The fact is I would like to know two things:
> 1) Is there any database API (for mysql, for example) that is more 
> recommend to be used with Gtkmm, or it is completely independent? At 
> least do you have any recommendations?
> 2) I'm fixing an Microsoft Access application to store and retrieve 
> information about members of a non-profit organization (it was done by 
> someone else, and it needs adjustments). I thought to "port" it to a 
> Gtkmm program. Is there any good advantage of doing this?
> Question 1 will be important if I decide to do what I thought on 
> question 2.
>
> I know these are very general questions and maybe off-topic. But I 
> really do not have a great vision about what does it means to use 
> GTK(--) to build applications. I don't know if they are fast, stable 
> and better than an Access application, for example.
> Sorry for the ignorance.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Best regards,
> Arthur Maciel
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Hi Arthur,
1) Yup there is a c++ connector for mysql but it doesn't matter if you 
use gtkmm or some other gui, look on the mysql site.
2) If it is a simple db its *I* think its easyer to use xml to store 
your members(its included in the win32-port of gtkmm, do `pkg-config 
--cflags libxml++-2.6` for the inclkudes nd for thhe libs change cflags 
to libs, you probably knew this...), because else you have to run mysql 
on a server or local, if your app runs on different pc's its a other 
thing. One thing I don't know is, how is the performance of the libxml++ 
if there are thousands of records? Is it easy searchable? ...

Hope this made you a bit wiser.(from me???????? :d)

grts Bart