On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:24, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 08/09/04 12:30 +0530, komal wrote: > > Hello > > > > I want to design and develop application using MySQL as backend with tally > > 4.5 like interface. How to go about that? Any idea? > > Please do not crosspost. > > MySQL is a bad idea for lots of reasons (lack of transactions by default, > silent truncation of strings, non standard SQL being the biggest flaws). > > I recommend looking at AvSAP and modifying that instead.
Or maybe PostgreSQL - supports transactions and triggers, is stable and free. A Tally-like front end means a regular GUI front end. You have several options in this space: * Scripted languages such as Perl, Python (with Tk, or the wxWindows interface or the GTK interface), or even Tcl/Tk (ugh) * A regular C or C++ GUI using GTK/ Qt/ Gnome/ KDE/ wxWindows (the most common, and you fill find several other GUI frameworks if you search on freshmeat), or maybe even Java with a GUI toolkit * If you prefer a commercial IDE, you could even get Borland's Kylix, which supports C++ Builder and Delphi (not sure if it is still around, though) HTH, Krishnan -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
