[Pythoncard-users] Announce: dbBrowser sample application

[Andy T. <an...@cr...>]

Folks,

Its not just Kevin who is grinding out code for PythonCard, despite any 
impressions to the contrary you may get from reading this list ;-)

Although it has taken me longer than a couple of hours, I've finally got 
a working version of my sample application, dbBrowser. It is in the 
current cvs tree as a sample application 
(http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=19015). It probably isn't ready to 
be included in the daily package yet, but I will leave that call to 
Kevin. It does utilise some 'features' of PythonCard that aren't in the 
other samples though, mainly in the area of dynamic widget definition 
(and removal).

dbBrowser is a PythonCard application designed to let you browse data 
that resides in a relational database. Over time it may grow into a more 
fully featured database client, but to do that I will need some feedback 
so please have a bash and let me know what you think.

Now, the drawbacks;

There is no documentation, so caveat emptor. dbBrowser currently only 
works with MySQL. In future versions I'm planning to support (at least) 
PostgreSQL, Oracle and some level of ODBC support. I'm also thinking 
about supporting csv and comma delimited files, but probably not just 
yet unless the clamour is deafening. If anyone wants to try plugging in 
another database my first documentation task is to define the interface 
that dbBrowser.py will expect to be exposed by plug in modules (if you 
want a head start have a look at mySQLBrowse.py).

Now, the excuses;

This is my first serious application in either Python or PythonCard so 
please, even if you haven't got MySQL, I'll welcome any constructive 
criticism of my code. Thanks in advance. The code is still under 
development, so feedback will help me build a better application. There 
are a couple of bits of code that even I reckon are necessary for 
revision and they are commented as such in the code.

Regards,
Andy
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