Access

[O. Sinclair]

Martin Laberge wrote:
> On January 10, 2008 11:04:23 Neil Winchurst wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:24:31 +0200
>> "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think SQLite might be what you are looking for but with what front-end 
>>> I don't know. Gambas?
>>>
>>> Sinclair
>>>
>> Yes, I have looked at that. But that is one of the points that I was
>> making. I am talking about an all-in-one, everything-included
>> program in the style of Access and Paradox, a so called monolithic
>> program. 
>>
>> You suggest SQLite, but then I must look for a front-end
>> program. I am talking about a program which would already include
>> tables, forms, queries, reports etc all in the one package. No need to
>> look for a front-end or anything else. This kind of program is still
>> missing in Linux, as far as I know.
>>
>> Neil Winchurst
>>
> 
> All applications include a frontend and a backend.
> 
> Wathever you call them, they procees as such.
> 
> the frontend and the backend, do not need to be linked
> together to consist of ONE Application.
> 
> Many windows applications includes many dll
> and are called monolythic apps.
> 
> Are you referrign to an application with one EXEcutable
> and a thousand unknown references?
> 
> Or an application using many known references ?
> 
> Or wathever it is ??
> 
> Kexi with Sqlite, is the monolythic way,
> Kexi with Mysql, is the distributed way
> 
> Choose the one you need, and let us use the other,
> if I or someone else think the other way is the better.
> 
> Anyway, you end up with a monolithic app, with many options.
> 
> And the user wont care of the way, if it is useable, simple, and clean.
> 
I think Kexi might be what you are looking for, this is from the Kexi FAQ:
"    Q1.2: How to use database servers with Kexi?
     A1.2: First, note that you do not need to use database servers at 
all - you can use file-based builtin database server built into Kexi 
(SQLite-based, very much like MS Access, but a bit more robust).
     If you want database servers, PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported. 
Create a new blank database project on server using Kexi's startup 
dialogs. Kexi will ask you to define connection data with connection 
dialog and select database name, so you will be able to just pick this 
predefined connection later. You can also use command line options to 
create and drop database projects. Also read here (october 2004)."

I think I might try it out myself, I have "almost live" data in a 
interbase database from the windows-side I would like to build an app for.

Sinclair