It's pretty evil. I'd just ship a 30-lines-of-c# utility to pull the data out and put it in something standard that your air app can understand.
-Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:19 PM, pbrendanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
