On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 20:21 -0400, Kevin Ryde via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> I noticed a couple of "use Gtk2 -init" lines in DBI.pm. It'd be nice if
> they didn't have the "-init", leaving it to the application to
> initialize when it wants.
>
> Obviously there's not much you can do without an init, but leaving it to
> the mainline code means you can do things like "Test::UseAllModules"
> without an X display available.
>
> (Perhaps those -init's are only leftovers from the Gtk2 example programs
> anyway ... :)
That's right. Copy & paste is to blame here :)
Here's an updated version that doesn't try to init Gtk2. There are also
about a year's worth of changes. There's nothing major ( otherwise I
would have bothered with doing a release ), but there are a few more
things than are in the changelog at the moment.
Show quoted text>From memory you might get warnings about changing the syntax of numeric
formatting hashes and things. I'm part-way through synchronising the
syntax with PDF::ReportWriter for an export function ( which is added
but incomplete and may change at the moment ).
Lastly, if you're finding the DBI module(s) useful, you might be
interested in the GUI builder that I was working on ( I had screenshots
on my webpage, but that's all gone ... ). I've got a functional ( but
not complete ) builder for Gtk2::Ex::DBI definitions, and basic
framework in place for project management. Adding support for
Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI definitions shouldn't be *too* hard - it would
be maybe 10 hours of work to get something functional.
My original plan was to try to find other developers who were interested
in working on it as a commercial project. With a Gtk2::SourceView-based
editor, and maybe even a Gtk2-based interface to the perl debugger, it
would be at least as good as OpenOffice's monstrosity.
Anyway, I've been lazy/busy and not really done anything in ages. In
fact I don't work in the same job that I developed these tools for any
more, so I'm not actually using them ( for work purposes ) any way. But,
I'm still working ( slowly ) at fleshing out the GUI builder. If you're
interested in working on it as either a commercial or open-source
project, I'm open to persuasion either way at the moment. I'm in Sydney,
by the way. What part of Australia are you in?
When I get some more time ( which may be anything from days to weeks ...
our first born is due in 4 weeks ), I'll look at your multi-column
primary key request.
Dan
