пн, 16 июл. 2018 г. в 1:14, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com>:
> > Dmitry Igrishin <dmit...@gmail.com> writes: > > > вс, 15 июл. 2018 г. в 22:42, Chuck Davis <cjgun...@gmail.com>: > > > >> If you decide to proceed on this project there's no need to reinvent the > >> wheel. > >> > >> I use Netbeans for my development. it has quite a good facility for > >> working with databases and I use it regularly with Postgres. Since > >> Netbeans is now licensed under Apache 2 you might find useful code > >> there. Be assured it uses JDBC for access but JDBC is universally > >> available and the folks at Postgresql have done quite a nice job with > >> JDBC drivers. Of course, this already works on all platforms. The > >> implementation is basic but very useful: i.e. a good starting point. > >> > > Thank you for the point. I'm the C++ programmer and I'm author of the > > C++ client library for PostgreSQL - Pgfe and I'm going to use it in this > > project. But I'm not sure about the cross-platform GUI toolkit. > > The cross-platform GUI toolkit will be the challenge. > This is why I've consider GUI for the Windows only. And if I'll not find an adequate GUI toolkit (at reasonable price and/or license), there is an option to make the GUI available on Windows only and provide the Linux version without a GUI (at least at the first time). > > Your idea to make it integrate with user's preferred editor is a good > idea as editors are like opinions and certain anatomical parts - > everyone has one! Finding an appropriate API to do this will be a > challenge. > I see two options here: the core of the tool acts as a long-lived server or as a short-lived console application which communicates with the editor's plugin via stdin/stdout. Btw, what the text editor do you prefer? :-) > > I seem to remember reading somewhere that Oracle was going to remove > swing from the core java library. I've always been a little disappointed > with Java UIs and found they don't give the cross-platform support that > Java originally promised, plus OSX/macOS has not made Java as welcome as > it use to be. If you do choose Java, it will need to work under openJDK > as this is what most Linux users will have installed. > For now, the possible options for the GUI part are Qt, wxWidgets or FLTK, or even Electron.
