On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:59:24AM -0500, Bryn Joynes wrote:
> This is not a suggestion but an idea I have had for a while. I also
> need a logging program but I also need one that is portable between
> Linux and Windows. I was thinking of using MySQL as the database with a
> web browser as a front end running perl and perl-dbi scripts. The only
> problem is the lack of time at present to sit down and write the code.
>
> Maybe someone with more programming knowledge might like to run with
> this idea.
I have been thinking about logging software for linux recently too.
I considered the web/database backend approach but thought it might
be a bit too slow and not as flexible as a real program.
I'm undecided about which is the best GUI to work with. I started
hacking some stuff using Perl/Tk, which is not bad. (I use Perl
a lot for my day job.) There's also Perl/GTK+, although Perl/Tk is
more portable to Windows. Then there's the matter of the backend;
Perl has a database interface called DBI which is very flexible;
I don't know if it's support on Windows. There is DBI to talk to MySQL,
postgres, ODBC etc and even to talk to flat text files.
So I am currently considering Perl, Perl/Tk and DBI for the job.
Writing GUI applications in C/C++ is not my idea of a fun weekend,
no matter which toolkit you use (Motif, GTK+, wxWindows etc).
There's a lot of stuff to do. Basic record keeping is one thing,
but then there's reports for awards and so on. Still, I haven't
found a program that suits me 100% on Windows, and if I'm going
to write something it will certainly be on Linux. (Even though I
could it in Windows using Delphi in no time.)
73
Hamish
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