[Gambas-user] Generator

[Dag-Jarle Johansen]

hi,

I have tried out Gambas since about 1 1/2 month now, it mostly works 
fine. As an old VB6-programmer some issues are just new or different, 
depends on. It is fast, really fast, but perhaps this is a consequence 
of switching from windows to linux too, don't know. ( I just hate to do 
something on the kid's (still) windows-pc) .

I am writing a budget-software for the moment, to get practice and use a 
lot of tables in the MySQL-Database, operating with all issues I find. I 
wrote my first programms in 1979, so I think i know what is needed, and 
what one can leave outside. still, I am a typical application 
programmer, I do not really care what is happening under the hood, if it 
works. a reason why I did not like C very much, though I had to write a 
lot, with unix and windows. too much to do before you see any results :) 
and that is what I am thinking about. my little software will contain 
about 50 tables, and most of them are to be handled by a user or admin. 
even though one can write a lot of functions or classes helping out,  in 
my opinion it is easier to handle  forms with the items visible on them, 
than to work all virtually, speak use only dynamic objects (consequently 
worked out you then only would use one basic form, but I would not like 
to have to read the source then).  with 2 additional tables it would be 
possible to write a generator for typical data-apps, creating (at least 
the core) forms with menus, toolbars, statusbar, listarea and dataarea. 
I did that in VB6, and if the planning was good,  the form was finished 
with a click. it is also likely to reverse the procedure - create one 
form by hand and then  read out the elements to put them in the right 
tables. then make an copy-routine, and change the items as needed for 
the next form, whereby it would be possible to read out table-contents 
of the productivity-db to replace the fields (and tables if more than 
one) in the copied section. then all to do is labeling right. (mostly 
the field names are not very handsome for the end-user)

my question to you - anyone interested in such a project?

I am not so sure if I would write it for myself, the future is a little 
diffuse, it is not really certain what I am going to concentrate on. for 
me it is good chance to dive a little deeper in gambas, but it is 
necessary to get feedback - no fun in writing for months on something 
nobody wants. I am also making a little web-design, better, the 
technical part with php and so on, and there are other options too.

I would like to hear a thought or two about this...
if I hear nothing, I know what to do :)

bye and regards
dag-jarle johansen