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

[Tomas Eroles i Forner]

As french people says: putain!!!!!
It seems a wonderful application !!!


El sáb, 01-12-2007 a las 15:00 +0100, Fabien Bodard escribió:
> 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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