Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Daniel Espinosa <esodan yahoo com mx>]

 --- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> escribió: 
> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:54 +0200, Vivien Malerba
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:43:58 -0500, Daniel
> Espinosa Ortiz
> > <esodan yahoo com mx> wrote:
> > > I think we will need Widgets to manage a Fields,
> may useful when you
> > > create a gnome_db_form.
> > > 
> > > The you have gnome_db_text, gnome_db_date, and
> one for any GdaValue type
> > > exist. this Widget may have an associated Label,
> and some methods.
> > 
> > I've already created such a class, but for
> libmergeant (can't be used
> > as-is for libgnomedb because it requires the data
> dictionnary
> > libmergeant maintains). If you want to have a
> look, the classes are
> > MgDataEntry (the actual base class for widget to
> be found in a form)
> > and MgDataHandler (a base non widget class to
> convert between SQL,
> > user and GdaValue some values).
> > 
> it looks to me much better to have a single class
> than a
> GnomeDbDate/Int/Float, etc. Is that how it works in
> Mergeant?
> 
> > If we want one day to make libmergeant and
> libgnomedb closer, then I
> > think we should have a kind of framework for form
> entry widgets in
> > libgnomedb which libmergeant will improve on (I
> say "improve" because
> > it has a finer view of the data types, etc because
> of the data
> > dictionnary it maintains).
> > 
> as we talked some time ago, libmergeant and
> libgnomedb should probably
> be merged at some point in future. The current
> widgets-only approach of
> libgnomedd makes it quite unattractive for many
> people, who prefer to
> just use normal GTK widget bound to libgda data. So,
> I think we should
> try to have libgnomedb/libmergeant be an extension
> to GTK, so that
> people can continue using any kind of GTK widget
> with access to the rich
> libgmergeant dictionary. That would make
> libgnomedb/libmergeant a much
> more attractive library to use.
> -- 
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
> 
> 

I agree, I think that libgnomedb 'must' have a rich
set of widgets, to use it in forms or as part of an
application: the improviments in libmeargeant will be
use full, but I think is more intuitive for the
developer to have that widgets (I did'nt know that
improviments already exist in libmeargeant) in
libgnomedb; any extention 'must' be go back to
libgnomedb and may the limeargeant use for other
spacific items.

I'm wrong? what is the object to have a separated
library? I allways think that Meargeant was just an
application to 'use' the libgnomedb. 

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