Certainly worth a look. My required feature list:
1. Ability to easily create forms for either on screen or print use.
2. Ability to show and edit one-to-many database linked records.
E.g. Consider a crossword puzzle database:
Top level is the word.
Definition 1
Definition 2
Obscure hint 2.1
Obscure hint 2.2
...
Hint 2.6 used in puzzle 264 on 21 October 1973
Hint 2.6 used in puzzle 321 on 28 November 1990
Or consider a photo database:
Top level is a link to a digital photograph -- it has various attributes.
2nd level is a link to a derrived photograph -- cropped, scaled, rotated,
color shifted...
2nd level is a link to another derived photograph.
Different 2nd level is a set of captions that were used with this image
when published.
Third 2nd level database is the publication history of the image.
What program allows me to easily prottype, and test screen and forms for
doing this sort of thing?
Respectfully,
Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests -- http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
780-848-2548
50042 Range Rd 31
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:40 PM, bluestube <[email protected]> wrote:
> I felt the same, having thought Knoda was going to be my answer, and
> finding Kexi to not do what I wanted and it had other problems. However I
> found a solution without resorting to a Access an a VM. I too have Apache
> running, on my backend server, alongside the mysql database, so, I found a
> web based GUI called Xataface that is configurable by simple text files.
> Just a possibility ...
>
> *From:* Sherwood Botsford <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2011 10:42 PM
> *To:* discussing hk_classes & knoda<[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Hk-classes-discuss] [Bug 787688] Re: knoda rejected and
> kexi heavily bugged
>
> As someone who has been burned before with data incompatibility, I will no
> longer use FOSS that doesn't have an active support community. I'm not
> enough of a programmer to fix the problems.
>
> In general any software package that depends on a single person is a risk.
> If that person gets hit by a truck, or just loses interest, and if the
> program is brittle enough that it breaks with an OS upgrade, then I'm
> stuck. I have to revert to a previous OS level (Not trivial), salvage my
> data, and find a new program to use.
>
> Unfortunately there is no good equivalent to MS access that meets my needs
> at this time. So at present I run a VM with windows XP and Access just so
> that I can do quick and dirty reports from a simple (9 table) relational
> database.
>
> Generally the FOSS graphical programs have been a disappointment. Gimp is
> clunky, hard to use, and missing too much of photoshop. OpenOffice is
> impossibly slow, and accurately reproduces MS bugs in numbering and styles.
> Abiword has weird printing bugs, and awful documentation. Digikam comes
> close, but I've moved to Aperture now, just for it's better handling of
> tags.
>
> Firefox got it right -- but I'm refusing to upgrade to 4 until tabkit works
> at that level.
>
> On the otherhand, I use Apache for serving my web pages. I use perl daily.
> I use MultiMarkdown, and Text Toolkit 2. I'm quite comfortable with the
> commandline generally.
>
> Not sure why the graphical interface is so hard to do well. I think it's
> mostly because it's done backwards. The core program is written, then the
> graphics are slapped on, then the interface is written, then the
> documentation is written (maybe.) I suspect it should be almost the
> reverse: Write the interface. Write the documentation. Write the hooks
> that tie the interface to processing. Write the processing.
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
>
> Sherwood Botsford
> Sherwood's Forests -- http://Sherwoods-Forests.com
> 780-848-2548
> 50042 Range Rd 31
> Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Robert Leleu <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Je la 11/06/2011 22:55-------- Origina mesaĝo-------- Jaroslaw Staniek
>> skribis (esperanto estas la unua internacia lingvo):
>>
>> On 11 June 2011 10:08, robert leleu mailto:[email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Je la 02/06/2011 22:31-------- Origina mesaĝo-------- Jaroslaw Staniek
>> skribis (esperanto estas la unua internacia lingvo):
>>
>> On 2 June 2011 22:04, falcafmailto:[email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Bonsoir,
>>
>> I have the same problem ; I've tried kexi but without good result (unable to
>> import my mysql base.
>> Knoda work ; isn't possible to get it again in ubuntu ?
>>
>>
>> If I am not mistaken, one of the requirements is that the application
>> has to be maintained...
>>
>>
>> Not being programmer I am not sure of the meaning of "maintained". Is it
>> to prepare the relevant files to be included in a PPA ?
>>
>> At the time being I'm aware of a debian whose address
>> ishttp://mirror.network.kz/ubuntu/pool/universe/h/hk-classes/libhk-classes15ldbl_0.8.3-7build1_i386.deb
>>
>> and I hope this is a basis for someone to "maintain" Knoda in Ubuntu, at
>> less as long as Kexi doesn't work properly.
>>
>>
>> I have no notes regarding quality of knoda deployment. By maintenance
>> I mean the software of course not the deployment. The most recent
>> version of KNoda is 0.8.3 which appears to be released around December
>> 2006 and is for KDE 3. As someone who values FOSS competition I am
>> rather sorry about this fact.
>> Please also look at the comments at [1].
>>
>> Lack of update for knoda is of course no excuse for Kexi's own issues
>> on Ubuntu and I am
>> looking forward to see opportunities to cooperate more closely with
>> the Ubuntu team.
>> To be more constructive: If someone is interested in preparing Kexi
>> 3.0 deployment in advance before Calligra 3.0 alpha is announced, we
>> have regular Calligra source code snapshots [2], and these include
>> Kexi. Updates notes for deployment are always available
>> athttps://projects.kde.org/projects/calligra/repository/revisions/master/entry/README.PACKAGERS
>>
>> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.hk-classes.general/317
>> [2] 1st
>> snapshot:http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-announces-first-snapshot-release/
>>
>> Thanks for your fast answer. I took a look atcalligra-announces, and I
>> deduced that we have new versions (of Kexi in particular) for Ubuntu 12.04.
>> That's why I put a copy of this message in HK classes discussion list.
>> With thanks to all who work on the project.
>>
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