Re: Data entry - forms design or other APIs etc. - what is there?

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I'm using Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com; note this is a commercial
product, but there is a free demo) -- not database specific, but it
does have built-in support for PostgreSQL. Note that while it *should*
be able to build apps for Linux, accessing databases from those apps
seems to be broken in the current version; I suspect that will be fixed
in the next release. This is a *very* fast way to build almost any
kind of application, once you've got a feel for how to use it.

On Jan 23, 2005, at 1:17 AM, William Yu wrote:

> Take a look at Ruby on Rails.
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
>
> I haven't used it myself yet but looking through the above
> walkthrough, seems pretty easy to make data entry web forms.
>
>
> Chris Green wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:19:53PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
>>> On Friday 21 January 2005 12:55 pm, Chris Green wrote:
>> [snip question]
>>> Many languages have the capacity to access PostgreSQL databases
>>> including Python (with PyGreSQL), Perl (with DBI), PHP (compile in
>>> support), Delphi and Java (with JDBC) to name a few. The selection
>>> of GUI tools for forms depends upon the language.
>>>
>> Yes, I was hoping for a bit more help than just a language interface
>> but if I have to I'll go down that route.
>>> You can also use other databases applications that make use of ODBC
>>> links such as MS Access and Paradox. (Attempts with Lotus Approach
>>> failed horribly.) At work, I've used MS Access to create several
>>> front-end applications to PostgreSQL database servers.
>>>
>> Now that *is* a possibility, I have Access at least. Though that
>> prevents me making a totally Linux based application.
>>> Gnumeric, a spreadsheet application, is supposed to be able to
>>> access several databases natively (not odbc) via gnomedb. I've
>>> gotten gnomedb to connect to the database; but I can't find any
>>> documentation as to how to get the data into the spreadsheet.
>>>
>> Those might be useful too, thanks.
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