Re: [OT] Guidelines for handling data in a GUI application?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 15:41 +0100, Jef Driesen wrote:
> I'm ready to write my first real GUI application (using gtkmm of 
> course). I studied the gtkmm documentation and can make simple 
> applications. The focus there was on the user interface part (e.g. 
> adding widgets, event handling and stuff like that). But that is only 
> one part of an application. My application must also be able to show and 
> modify data. But I don't know how to do that in a "well designed" way.
> 
> I looked for more information, but I couldn't find what I'm looking for. 
> I do find lots of information on GUI toolkits and database APIs, but 
> almost nothing useful on how to glue them together. Does anyone know 
> where I can find more information on this (websites, books,...)?
> 
> To give you some more background on my project: My application stores 
> its data in an sqlite database. The application will have one main 
> window, probably some type of master-detail view, with a listview for a 
> (readonly) overview of the main database table and a detail part to 
> modify that data. All the other data in the database is related to that 
> main table (e.g. data to populate widgets in the detail part of the main 
> window) and modified using secondary windows.

It's probably worth looking at libgnomedb.

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