Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Hooker
Sqlfan: If you really want something to imitate Excel, rather than just using Excel itself and the very capable VBA it includes, one option would be Borland Delphi, using Ralf Junker's Disqlite3 as the wrapper to Sqlite3 and any one of a number of third-party shareware grid components, easily

RE: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread Samuel R. Neff
SQLite is not an end-user tool (nor is any other database except *perhaps* Access, but even then it just gets people into trouble). What you want is not a free gui for SQLite but a custom application that does what the user needs and uses SQLite as it's data storage mechanism. This certainly

RE: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread Griggs, Donald
Regarding Moving colorful spreadsheet to sqlite. -- Would Christian Werner's free ODBC interface allow you to use the same spreadsheet to access an sqlite database? http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc -- Lots of automation can be performed within Excel spreadsheets (and, I imagine,

Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread Clark Christensen
, it seems you could start here: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=SqliteOdbc -Clark - Original Message From: sqlfan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 2:50:00 AM Subject: Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite L

Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread Mag. Wilhelm Braun
there are a number of front ends to sqlite - I use sometime tksqlite. http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/wiki/TkSQLite.html maybe not exactly what you want - but it might be a starting point. regards W.Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still not sure why you want to use SQLite here, but I think to get

Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread bartsmissaert
Still not sure why you want to use SQLite here, but I think to get what you want you will have to code it yourself. RBS > > Let me be more clear. There's very little data, and I want to help my > client > be able to expand his business, so the first step is automating what he's > been doing by

Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread sqlfan
Let me be more clear. There's very little data, and I want to help my client be able to expand his business, so the first step is automating what he's been doing by hand. I can get the excel data into sqlite no problem -- and wish to do so in order to START doing automated stuff with the data

Re: [sqlite] free excel-like COLORFUL gui for sqlite

2008-01-08 Thread bartsmissaert
If it is so good then why would you want to use SQLite? Holiday data can't be that much, so I would think Excel can cope with that fine. If you really want to move the data from Excel to SQLite then you will need a VB wrapper. RBS > > I have a client who's using a colorful excel sheet as a