Re: [OT] Database access with gtkmm application?

["Jef Driesen" <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > I like to use PostgreSQL myself.  There is an API distributed with it
> > called libpq.
> >
> > See http://www.postgresql.org/download/
> >
> > for details.
> >
> > Bob Caryl
> >
> > Jef Driesen wrote:
> > > A few years ago, I have written a windows application in Visual Basic. 
> > Since
> > > I'm (slowly) moving to linux, I want to rewrite it. For the GUI part, 
> > gtkmm
> > > seems a good choice (seems easy to use and cross-platform). But what 
> > are my
> > > options for the database part? Under windows, I have used the Visual 
> > Basic
> > > database classes with an MS Access database.
> > >
> > >
>
> It depends on your database requirements.  If you don't need a
> full-featured database server like postgresql, you could look into
> something like sqlite as well (http://www.sqlite.org/).  I've never
> personally used it, but It seems to have a fairly simple C API, and
> it's fairly popular for these sorts of situations.

SQLite seems interesting. Unfortunatly, there is no (official) C++ interface 
available. I can still do the database part in C, of course.