I end up quoting myself again. Thank you, Carl and Craig, for your suggestions. Once I started digging a bit deeper I found that the font trouble has not much to do with my old X / old graphics card. Instead I found heaps of inconsistently used Motif widgets in the xmbase-grok source code. I fixed most of them, only to find out that xmbase-grok is still buggy and does not give me what I want.
What I was looking for originally was a compact simple stand-alone DBMS for Linux, something like the database application on the EPOC PDAs if that means anything to anyone here. I would not really care whether it is relational or just an object database. But it should meet the following requirements: - "Monolithic" piece of database software, no separate database server / admin front-end / client software. - Easy to install. - Administration requirements as low as possible. - Compact and simple. - Import / Export of ASCII files - CSV would be best, but anything that can be processed by awk, perl, whatever would do. One of the most promising candidates I found was gaby, but the CSV import / export is buggy, the thing does not properly handle escaped characters. Why? Because the author wrote his own library for CSV, from what it looks like. So I searched around for an existing C library for handling CSV formatted data files, but did not really find anything which would look like _the_ standard solution. Does such a thing not exist? Or have I just overlooked it? I found a library called dataio, but that does not seem to be too widely spread. If anyone with more experience in the vast fields of DBMSs could shed some light on this I would be really grateful. And yes, I had a look at xrolo & co. Kind regards, Helmut. On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Helmut Walle wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any xmbase-grok users around here? I am trying to > run it on X 3.3.6 with openmotif, and everything seems to be > fine, except that the "Print" and "Export" windows only > display grey rectangles instead of readable characters > for all the checkbox and radio button labels, i.e., there > seem to be heaps of characters without graphical > representation. ... +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 03 - 388 39 54 | +----------------+
