Thanks Ed, you have certainly clarified my view of Dabo's purpose. What motivated me to start this conversation was not a wish to subvert Dabo's design goals, but the curiosity to know how central the assumption of unchanging database schemas is to the overall framework design.
Thanks again, Flávio On 4/26/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Flavio Coelho wrote: > > > Then, suppose I want to write a quick app to help visualize the > > data in > > those databases. If I had a single database with an immutable set > > of tables, > > I could use Dabo to generate an app to query this database an plot > > the > > table columns for me. But I have a bunch of similar but not equal > > databases, > > so what do I do? > > > > If the Dabo app allowed me to select the db file (in case of > > SQLIte), and > > presented me with a form based on that db schema, the problem would be > > solved. > > > > So, do you still think that this type of app is beyond the scope of > > Dabo? > > To answer that, let me first define what is meant by "the scope of > Dabo". > > Dabo is a general-purpose framework for developing desktop apps > that > aims to be database-agnostic, os-agnostic and (eventually!) ui- > toolkit-agnostic. From that framework, developers can create all > sorts of applications to handle wildly different needs. > > What you are describing is certainly something that can be done > with > Dabo, but it isn't anything that will become part of the framework > itself. Parts of the framework will help achieve what you need, but > other parts you will have to write yourself. For example, you could > look at the AppWizard code to see how it handles discovery of > database information, and then use that same approach in your app, > rather than having to re-create that code. > > So while what you are describing is certainly something that is > possible to create with Dabo, it isn't something that is of a general- > enough nature that it will become part of the framework. Does that > clarify things? > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
