I know this has come up before but there is a significant need to access data in desktop databases (Read Only would be OK). (e.g. I am working with the Google App Engine and there is no easy way to populate their datastore).
A GUI upload app written in AIR could be great for this. I've thought about doing a small GUI in Python since the libraries are available - however I'd prefer to use AIR for GUI development. While support for this may not be available out of the box I wondered if some 3rd party libraries might be available for this - e.g. Python has extensive libraries than can be used to access Excel, Access etc. Any chance that similar Flex/AIR/Actionscript libs might be developed? Anyone else out there thought about doing this? TIA, Patrick
