Re: [gnome-db] Future characteristic

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

> I think you're right.  This really limits the incentive to use Gnome-Db/GDA, if
> one still has to do all the form get/post grunt work.  And it needs to be
> supported by some RAD tool, at least something like Glade.
>
> I still remember how powerful Borland's tools were for building simple database
> apps back when I developed on Windows-For-Workgroups (gawd!).  At this point on
> Linux the OpenOffice form builder and database connectivity is the closest thing
> we have.
>
> 1.) Define a connection
> 2.) Define a query
> 3.) Make a "form" (or screen whatevver) , attach it to a query
> 4.) Populate the form with widgets attached to query elements.
>
> Lots of fancy stuff is nice, but the above satisfies 8 out of 10 situations (in
> my experience).
>  
Its not quite that easy for building DB RAD tools. Inter-form 
relationships, inter-widget relationships, cross dependencies of both 
widgets and data, cause and effect on user actions, callback functions 
and when to call/not call callback functions, dealing with datasources 
that cover many tables, data validation, default values (always more of 
a nightmare than you expect), and then making sure the data on the 
screen is upto date with whats on the database and vis-verser.  The 
whole web post/get thing is so much easier data model to work but its 
these kinda features most users demand of there databases. Maybe i need 
to code less and sleep more. Coffee is evil. Anyway point is that you 
have a limited use for software if you can only do as good as what you 
can do on the web.