[Gambas-user] Gambas "Best Practices"

[Hamish Robertson]

Hey man,
Gambas is great...but seeing as your coming from access have you checked out
openoffice base?

http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/8-Using-OpenOffice-Base-2.3.1-with-PostgreSQL.html

http://linuxgangster.org/forums/showthread.php?t=790&highlight=openoffice+base

I dunno, you may be able get up to speed more quickly with base as you're
coming from access and it is cross platform.

Gambas is much more powerful though, very fast....and the community is
unbelievable!  You're in good hands. :)

Good luck!









2008/5/19 Doug Gack <douggack at ...67...>:

>
> Background:
>
>    I am an independent software developer, primarily providing custom
> business applications to small businesses. I do most of my work in M$
> Access, but also some in PHP and ASP Internet forms. (After programming for
> 40+ years, another language is easier to learn than the first few.) I've
> been looking for a couple of years for a way to do the same thing in Linux,
> and it looks like I've finally found it. Thank you. Gambas!
>
> I just completed a conversion of a (tiny) application from Access/ASP to
> Gambas/MySql/PHP, and it works just fine, thank you very much! Except....
>
> As when learning any new environment, there's a prolonged period of
> developing a "style" for the environment.
>
> I started off trying to create a "Graphical" application, not knowing any
> better, and soon (well, not so soon, actually) realized that a "QT
> Application" would give me a lot better user environment. That's just one of
> the bumps encountered on the road, but I got it to work, so I'm better for
> the experience.
>
> Question is, what can anyone tell me about better ways to approach the
> subject?
>
> Some starter questions:
>
> - Which graphical environment, and why?
>
> - I've been spoiled by Access's methods with combo boxes, and it's become
> my most used way of looking up data. If I want to find "Smith, John", I
> start typing "smi...", and soon his name pops up. Looks like Linux
> subscribes to the browser forms method of only using only the first letter
> out of a list. I type "S" and get "Sa...", then type "m" and get "Ma...".
> When I have a list with 15 or 20 thousand names, this won't do. How have
> others solved this issue?
>
> Any starter suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> Doug
>
>
> Doug Gack
> Homepage: http://dgack.selfip.com
>
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