First of all, great work on the wx/C++ port! I had contributed a little bit to the VB pgAdmin2 a little over a year ago when C++ discussions first started. I was amazed to see this wx port completed so quickly!
Thanks!
At the time I was (and still am) working on a datamodeler for postgres (http://www.hardgeus.com/projects/pgdesigner/). At the time it was in FLTK but I became frustrated with the library, so I switched to wx. I have had quite a bit of interest in the project, but I have never really gotten enough inertia to overcome a couple of the GUI humps I've hit. I thought I'd try to give a go at merging my codebase into pgAdmin3 so here I am.
I didn't have the time to look at your code or binary so far, just some thoughts:
A data model designer is a very important tool, we really should have this as open source! I've been working with SyBase AppModeler a long time, and I like the multi-database target abilities. While my heart belongs to PostgreSQL, I feel that a modeling tool should support all database systems.
We're a quite careful about what to integrate into pgAdmin3 itself; the tool is dedicated to database administrative tasks, and we feel it's not too helpful to have a menu item that starts an independent window for a new set of features. Still, there's the need for a whole suite of tools (the "pgAdmin suite" we might call it), one of them being pgAdmin3, one data centric manipulation and import tool (planning/brain storming stage), a scheduling tool (pgAgent, embryonic in cvs), and (in the dreams) a data model designer. The latter might well be pgdesigner.
Please feel free to use the pgAdmin3 code base to learn how to use wx libraries. IMHO, we're doing quite a good job supporting multiple platforms, and the build system may well be reusable for pgdesigner purposes. A DM designer is _the_ app I'd like to contribute next. Realistically, I might not have the time to do so intensively, but I'd like to add my knowledge.
There are some other guys who had built a MySQL centric tool in Delphi, planing to rewrite it with wxWindows, targeted to more database systems. Maybe forces could be joined.
Is there a newer wxGTK snapshot I should be using with the CVS version of pgAdmin3?
Yes, there is; please use wxWindows-pgAdmin3-20031010-6.tar.bz2. The compiler error shows that there's at least one required patch missing that makes the two methods mentioned public.
Regards, Andreas
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