Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:54 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote:
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> > 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?
>
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> > 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.
>  

Sorry i have to say it. You know plug my own stuff and all

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