[Gambas-user] Gambas2 components?

dave L dglnz at ...43...
Wed Jan 14 19:36:17 CET 2009 

Fair enough!

only reason i picked postgresql over mysql was the old enie menine miney mo.
Catch a ... by the tail choice and i end up pointing at postgres :)

might not have been the most intellegient choice but i thought i'd give db access a try sooner rather than later.

will you be looking at having it more DB nutural in later releases?




--- On Wed, 14/1/09, Gareth Bult <gareth at ...1689...> wrote:

> From: Gareth Bult <gareth at ...1689...>
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas2 components?
> To: "mailing list for gambas users" <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Received: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 11:13 PM
> Erm,
> 
> >what i was suggesting was perhaps an intermediate step
> until you get your program working right.
> 
> It's been "working right" for quite a long
> time .. my business relies on it "working right"
> .. (!)
> 
> >another thing with your editor is that it's filled
> with mysql specific statements
> 
> For example?
> 
> Do yourself a favour - try MySQL!
> 
> Gareth.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dave L" <dglnz at ...43...>
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> ________________________________
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> 
> Mmm,
> 
> Maybe it's me, but I'm not seeing anything it
> doesn't already do ... ???
> 
> Agreed except that I couldn't get your app running due
> to me not having mysql - bummer!!!
> so i couldn't actually get the project running that i
> downloaded from the url you gave me.
> 
> All objects / returned data etc are available to the user
> .. true it's via method and property calls, but this is
> the way it should be in an OOP system .. we don't expose
> raw data(!)
> 
> what i was suggesting was perhaps an intermediate step
> until you get your program working right.
> But i tried it as a sample by making the visible property
> to false and - got to form_open statement and died!!!
> So that idea without refinement is dead!
> 
> another thing with your editor is that it's filled with
> mysql specific statements (my ignorance is showing here) or
> do mysql & postgres share similar properties?
> 
> dave.
> 
> Gareth.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dave L" <dglnz at ...43...>
> To: "mailing list for gambas users"
> <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009 8:32:10 AM GMT +00:00 GMT
> Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas2 components?
> 
> Hi Garth,
> 
> got the version listed on the website shown below and able
> to follow it BUT i don't use mysql but postgres but
> it's interesting to see what you've done by walking
> thorough your code as far as i can.
> 
> Been thinking here and please you or anyone else correct me
> but couldn't this be done?
> 
> 1. using the DB demo form and code.
>     import that into your project enter connection strings
> to enable a valid connection to a RDBMS.
>     having the form hidden at run-time so it's
> available to use but not visible to the user.
> 
> 2. using the Rrequest form code as an object (thus allowing
> multiple table connections) and having the recordset be
> returned back to the user code for further actions.
> 
> that could reduce a lot of repeatitive coding for every
> project.
> 
> eg.
> 
> for every DB Control in a programmers project you would
> either share the recordset (thus a move in 1 control would
> be the same move in the others) object OR create/have new
> recordsets for each DB Control.
> 
> 3. control of writting data into the tables could also be
> managed via the code within the Frequest code.
> 
> from my observations it looks doable and with my limited
> coding knowledge of Gambas be easily incorporated into the
> next build cycle.
> 
> 
> 
> ***** snipped *****
> 
> The closest thing you're going to get for the moment is
> GridEditor.
> http://gambasrad.org/software/gambas-grideditor
> 
> ***** snipped *****
> 
> 
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