Hi Steve and all, thanks for this answer ! i couldn't expect a better one :-)
SP> I have had a bit of experience over the last few weeks writing a Rev SP> front end to an Access db. The objective originally was a simple SP> prototype student records system, but I have been very happy with the SP> results, as have my staff. Its very fast and very easy to add SP> sophisticated new functionality. Maybe soon the tag of "prototype" will SP> become irrelevant. Hope sincerely for you. SP> I hadn't done any database work in Rev before, and I based by original SP> approach on that used by the "SoftwareDBDemo" which I think is now on SP> revOnline. This approach doesn't rely on record sets and cursors but SP> loads the result of a SELECT statement into an array. As I understand SP> it, that gets around the bugs with moving forward or backward through a SP> record set. i'm going straight through this SoftwareDBdemo, i've had some experience with HAshes in Perl feeded by a Select, so it should be the same king of work.... SP> So while some of the power of revDB may not be usable in an Access/ODBC SP> project, enough of it works, and there are easy workarounds, to make SP> using Rev to create sophisticated front ends to Access db's very practical. SP> And now I'm off to add a few more features to my "prototype".... good luck for the next step :-) SP> Steve SP> thierry wrote: >>Hi all, >> >>i'm in the process of accepting or not a new project. >>roughly, it's a front end to an access database. >> >>i've seen few emails passing, concerning some limitations >>with Rev-Odbc-Access ; especialy the one quoted by Mark: >> >> >> " [...] bug #1528. I've had *several* Access projects >> now that I would have loved to do in runrev, >> but that forward-only odbc mode is a killer. " >> >>is this *forward-only* means that it's really not at all >>realistic to do a serious Access Front-end with Rev ? don't >>really understand what are the constraint behind this word..... >> >>thanks for some enlightments or general advise, >> >>Best regards, >> >>thierry >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>use-revolution mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> >> >> >> >> SP> _______________________________________________ SP> use-revolution mailing list SP> [email protected] SP> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Best regards, _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
