Re: [Fwd: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts]

[Elias M. <el...@al...>]

tis 2003-11-11 klockan 19.57 skrev Andrew:

> The biggest problem I could forsee (with that one and this) is the
> generating of reports. I think they could be done (and thought of apache
> fo, but I don't know a whole lot about that technology.

I've used it in production and I like it a lot. The only complaint I
have is that it doesn't handle characters outside 8859-1 very well.
Cyrillic didn't work at all, the euro symbol got the wrong width etc...
Could be simple font issues on my end though.

There are some other tools though, that are simpler to use. One of them
is being used by a colleague of mine to print reports for a system we're
building. I'll check with him tomorrow to see how it works. He seems to
like it a lot though.

> The other thing that pokes my mind is form desiging, and I thought some
> use of glade could be done, but not quite sure as I haven't given it a
> whole lot of time.

I would expect that the end user should be able to design his own forms.
Are you saying that he should design them using glade? Or that the forms
designed should genrade glade XML data? The first case won't work I
think, and the second would effectively mean that we'd be redesigning
the glade tool in Java.

Generally, the form designer shouldn't be very hard to write. All you
have to do is let the user place the form element manually on a canvas
without any layout applied. Right? I never tried such a thing using GTK+
but all in other toolkits I used it was a piece of cake.

> But the rest of it would be reasonable ok to do I think, well, I can't
> think why it would be too hard. Don't you agree? I mean, surely if
> people can write CD Burning software, a nice database tool would be
> straight forward!!

Definately. And I'd like to reiterate the enormous advangate of being
able to simple drop these JDBC driver in. Look at the way DbVisualizer
handles JDBC drivers. It's really cool. :-)

Elias