[Gambas-user] Question about the real scope of Gambas, and other on compatibility

[Fabien Bodard]

For an ERP (french) look : http://laurux.fr



2007/12/1, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>
> On samedi 1 décembre 2007, Tomas Eroles i Forner wrote:
> > Hi all !!
> > One friend on the spanish list of Gambas asked on that list about the
> > real scope of this program, that is, if Gambas is really ready to
> > develop big applications, as, for example (he asked) an ERP.
> >
> > I'm also interested on that, because I'm developing an application since
> > many time, and it's becoming bigger each day I add something.
> >
> >
> > By myself I would like to know if is possible (or will be possible
> > anytime) to use Gambas for manage OpenOffice documents, that is, if
> > could be possible to create Writer, Calc, Draw or Impress documents and
> > fill or read them.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
> >
>
> It depends on what 'big' is for you...
>
> The Gambas IDE is the bigger application I made, and it can be considered
> as
> a "big" application.
>
> For my job, I have developed a web application in Gambas to manage any
> kind of
> network and data that can be put on a map.
>
> * You can define classes with fields with support for many datatypes, then
> create as much objects of any class, modify or remove them.
> * The interface of the forms used for editing objects is configurable.
> * You can put any object on a map thanks to Google Maps and Google Earth
> support.
> * You can search the object data with a "google-like" interface.
> * You can define users and groups, with fine-grained authorisation.
> * You can upload any file to the application, and attach these files to
> any
> objects.
> * You can generate any PDF and OpenOffice document from any object. This
> is
> based on a pre-defined OpenOffice document template.
> * You can export the result of a search in OpenOffice or Excel.
> * The web application manages a pure-ftpd ftp server so that users can use
> it
> to upload their file, if uploading with http does not work.
> * The application has support for plugins (written in Gambas or other
> languages). It allows to implement the very specific parts of your
> application.
> * The application has support for "cron-like" jobs.
> * You can use a smart phone PDA with a GPS to take photo and upload them
> to
> the application. An object is automatically created and positioned on
> Google
> Maps.
>
> At the moment, this application is used for managing pipelines, a call
> center,
> some water networks. But I think we will find more uses for it!
>
> It is fast, the executable is 500K with all debugging symbols.
>
> So I don't think that Gambas will prevent you from making an ERP. The
> difficulty is more in the programmer than in the language :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
>
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