Re: [pilot-db-list] desktop apps thoughts

[Emmanuel S. <se...@wa...>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:12:29PM -0800, Tony McNamara wrote:
>
> Nathan Kurz wrote:
> 
> >I think the second thing that's needed is a good way to merge two
> >PDBs.  Emmanual probably has thought about this more than I have, but
> >I think it could be done relatively simply if one simply tracks new,
> >changed, and deleted records and doesn't do anything time based.  In
> >case of conflict, manual intervention would be required. This might
> >limit the places it could be used, but would be a lot better than
> >nothing and would meet many single-user / multiple-locations uses.

Agreed on all the above.
I'll have a look at what can be done and report back.

> I had played around with writing a dBase III+ simulator in SuperWaba 
> (Java for the Palm), but SuperWaba has too many bugs with respect to vfs 
> to be worth pursuing further, which is why I came back to PilotDB. 

Do you have any screenshots lying around?
I'm not a very GUI-oriented guy so I'ld appreciate your opinion.

> One question I have is, does it matter where that intelligence lays?  
> It's a lot easier to code in standard C++ or Java than in the 
> Palm-limited C/C++.

The Palm was designed to be an extension of the PC, relying on it to do
the heavy number-cruching stuff. Still, today's Palms have far bigger
CPUs than the early models and you should be able to do everything on
the Palm. I won't vouch for it being the best way to do it, though.

Emmanuel